Six Days In Soho; And The DNA Of Jack The Ripper

"If Anora won an Oscar on a $6 million budget, The Golden Boat was shot for less than the price of a 1990 Nissan Sentra."

The first thing I remember about The Golden Boat was the script. Director Raul Ruiz had written down some scenes and some lines in long hand. Ideas. An absurdist telenovela meets an even more absurdist police procedural. It wasn’t a film, not at first. It was a dare. A six-day (maybe more, maybe less) cinematic bender in a New York Soho loft, directed b…