She's Vintage Movie Review

I rarely meet anyone in San Francisco who bores the hell out of me, but—in She's Vintage, I spent 100 minutes with the four staggeringly dull flat mates whose less-than-spellbinding lives make up Mulan Chan's narrative for Peter M. Wilson's indie. All four are the subjects of rambling interviews that seem to lead nowhere. Sam (Danyel Roberts) is a blond bike messenger, Dahlia (Sally Dana) is an unemployed “dancer” who haunts garage sales, Isaac (Samuel Sheng) is a non-smoking, gay Asian writer who wants to write a book about Mammy Pleasant, and Beth (Tishan Waymire) bakes cakes. After 85 minutes of Nothing, they get robbed by drug dealers who are after the TV/VCR plus the $85 grand that was stashed in an old couch Dahlia picked up at a street sale. But: She found the money and stashed it in a cupboard and then Beth stashed it on a shelf and then let's just say that it's an awfully long set-up for an eight-second punch line. Waymire and Dana are the only cast members who can actually act. Played at San Francisco's Indie Fest, January 1999.

1998 100m/C Danyel Roberts, Tishan Waymire, Samuel Sheng, Sally Dana, Devon West, Andrew Piccone, Peter M. Wilson, Mulan Chan; D: Peter M. Wilson; W: Mulan Chan; C: Andrew Piccone.