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MALA NOCHE (Bad Night), Gus Van Sant's 1985 debut feature film, became the first installment of a "Portland Trilogy" along with his subsequent films Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. Adapted from Walt Curtis' autobiographical novella, Mala Noche stars Tim Streeter as Walt, a skid row liquor store clerk obsessed with a 16-year-old Mexican illegal immigrant (played by Doug Cooeyate). Van Sant's empathy for fringe-dwelling outsiders and his absorption in the possibilities of the film medium are on full display in Mala Noche. The film broke ground with its honest portrayal of a gay protagonist, and prefigured Van Sant's narrative and visual style in Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. Mala Noche won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for Best Independent Film.
"Gus Van Sant's Mala Noche is so raw and authentically personal that it feels as if it were shot through a peephole. In some ways that's the look of the film too -- concentrated, partially obscured, captured on the sly. Set on the skid row streets and pay-by-the-night hotels of Portland, it's so intimate that it comes across almost as an invasion of privacy. In places the film has the jazzy abandon of early Godard. This is a knockout debut." - Hal Hinson, Washington Post
"The ardor in this film isn't only in its love story; it's also in Van Sant's experimental, poetic use of the medium. Maybe that's why the doomed, unrequited romantic passion at its core nevertheless seems weirdly, vibrantly hopeful." - Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times.
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