His bad luck with horses led to two films dealing with the subject. The Hollywood Reporter had deemed Border Radio "A wonderfully quixotic look at vanishing dreams and misplaced integrity." But Voss' first feature experience was almost his last, when he became fed up with financial and distribution problems and turned to the track to support himself, with mixed result. I realized that what I do as a musician is very close to what independent filmmakers do." Alvin also felt akin with Border Radio because the film is set on his turf, inside the Los Angeles rock scene in fact, its main actors are Alvin's longtime friends Chris D. "It had three directors, which is very different. ".A subtle, dynamic score by Dave Alvin." It was not only the opportunity to do a full-fledged soundtrack that attracted Alvin to Border Radio.
Weekly critic Johnathan Gold wrote, "This is the movie Penelope Sheeris wishes she had made, a movie that explores the punk aesthetic without condescending to it, a sweet, funny no-future movie that hints there is a future after all." Creem Magazine called it "The sort of small film one longs to see more often" and praised rocker who flees to Mexico to hang out and drink beer after robbing the safe of a club owner who cheated his band. Critic Kevin Thomas added, "The music and image go together so powerfully, it's poetry." Chris D. Border Radio began as a sub rosa project at the UCLA film school by Allison Anders, Dean Lent and Kurt Voss, who pooled their talents as co-producers, co-writers and co-directors to turn out their $82,000 black and white film, which the Los Angeles times called "quite simply one of the best films ever made about the world of rock music". Voss graduated (UCLA Film School) at age twenty with the designation of most promising graduate. punk scene featuring John Doe ( X) and Dave Alvin ( The Blasters) and published by The Criterion Collection the Sundance-premiered Sugar Town (1999), featuring John Taylor ( Duran Duran) and Rosanna Arquette and Strutter (2012), a Kickstarter-financed independent film. Working together over twenty-five years, the duo created a trilogy of rock films: Border Radio (1987), a portrait of the L.A. Voss has frequently collaborated with fellow UCLA alumnus Allison Anders. Voss's credits include Will Smith's debut Where The Day Takes You the Justin Theroux, Alyssa Milano and Ice-T action film Below Utopia actress Jaime Pressly's debut feature Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, and rock and roll related films including Down and Out with the Dolls and Ghost on The Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club.
Kurt Voss (born Kurt Christopher Peter Wössner) is an American film director, screenwriter, and musician-songwriter.
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