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The Exiles
Directed by
Kent MacKenzie
Not Rated
1961
72m
Drama
6.6
89%
70%
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Follows a family of Native Americans living in the City of Angels.
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Cast of The Exiles
Yvonne Williams
Yvonne
Homer Nish
Homer
Tom Reynolds
Tommy
Rico Rodriguez
Rico
Clifford Ray Sam
Cliff
Clydean Parker
Claudine
Mary Donahue
Mary
Eddie Sunrise
Singer on Hill X
Eugene Pablo
Jacinto Valenzuela
Matthew Pablo
Ann Amiador
Sarah Mazy
Delos Yellow Eagle
Gloria Muti
Lew Irwin
Arthur Madbull
Norman St. Pierre
Ted Guardipee
Marilyn Lewis
Ned Casey
Bob Lemoyne
Jay Robidaux
Ernest Marden
I.J. Walker
Frankie Red Elk
Julia Escalanti
Chris Surefoot
Danny Escalanti
Sedrick Second
Della Escalanti
Leonard Postock
Tony Fierro
Kent MacKenzie
Director / Writer / Producer
The Exiles Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
As much an impressionistic gallery of urban landscapes as a set of candid portraits, the film joins an ardent sense of place with the subtle flux of inner life.
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Sean Axmaker
... there is also something singular and specific about these people and the culture they have created within the city: [Kent] Mackenzie's portrait may be fiction but this world is very real.
MetroActive
Richard von Busack
The exiles of the title mean the Indians-exiled from their land and with no connection to the white-run city around them. The title also means us: anyone who has ever been trapped in a late-night city, caught by the neon's glare like a moth.
Artforum
Amy Taubin
The question of who is looking and to what end is barely posed, let alone answered.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A fascinating hybrid of art and life, The Exiles may not hew entirely faithfully to literal truth but nonetheless conveys a form of artistic honesty that is inescapable. It's a mesmerizing marriage of poetry and prose.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A ghostly and startling tale of Native Americans in Los Angeles -- a fusion of documentary and fiction -- in the late '50s. Never previously released, it's a revelation.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The Exiles ... presents one boozy night in the lives of Homer, Cliff, Tommy and Yvonne, from a convertible joy ride through the Third Street Tunnel, to an early-morning powwow.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Kent Mackenzie's magnificent, long-undistributed, unclassifiable first feature, The Exiles, stands as a rare consideration of the inner and outer lives of American Indians in a big American city.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Rife with astonishing black-and-white images of an unknown L.A. and clashing sounds of bars, cinemas and poker games, The Exiles is one of those movies that functions as both artifact and fresh discovery.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Its moving portraiture is refreshingly free of cliches and moralizing platitudes, and the high-contrast black-and-white photography and dense, highly creative sound track are equally impressive.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A cinma vrit look at the rootless Native American community that once upon a time lived in Bunker Hill and hung out in downtown bars such as Club Ritz, this Kent Mackenzie film is a brooding picture of a darkly beautiful, long-gone Los Angeles.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is like cracking open a time capsule.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
You can only brood on the near half-century since The Exiles was shot -- and be grateful that someone went to that place and captured it all.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
While the mood is spot-on, the dubbed dialogue is so persistently lousy that it besmirches the proceedings' otherwise-entrancing beauty.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
In the secret, unwritten history of alternative American culture [Mackenzie] stands as a hero, alongside the Indians of Bunker Hill and the generations before them.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
It took nearly 50 years, but an important piece of film history is finally getting its due.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
A semidocumentary account of native Americans living in Los Angeles's downtown Bunker Hill, its evocations of loneliness and despair and renewal are among the most eloquent in American cinema.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Compared to the slick approach that Hollywood took even to the 'social problem' films of the era, The Exiles is bracing and raw, more akin to the French New Wave and British kitchen-sink dramas.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
This 50-year-old film about a Los Angeles neighborhood on the skids and its barely tethered dwellers stands as the freshest movie in theaters.
New York Times
Dennis Lim
Despite its compact time frame the film conjures a powerful sensation of purgatory: a night like many others.
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