An introvert finds complacency when he makes an unusual friend.
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QUESTIONER: What are the most common comparisons to other films that you hear? CORY MCABEE: There’ve been a few. Because it’s in black and white people sometimes say Eraserhead, but other than the fact that it’s in black and white I don’t really see much… [laughter]. I get a lot of “cross-betweens,” like “a cross . . . → Read More: 123. THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT (2001) DIRECTED BY: Robert Downey, Sr. FEATURING: Arnold Johnson, Robert Downey, Sr. (voice), Pepi Hermine, Antonio Fargas PLOT: Putney Swope, the token African American on the board of a Madison Avenue advertising firm, is accidentally elected Chairman of the Board on a secret ballot; he renames the agency “Truth and Soul Advertising,” fires most . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: PUTNEY SWOPE (1969) Looking at the ultra-conventional career of Sherlock Holmes/Iron Man Robert Downey, Jr., it’s hard to imagine that this talented but timid McMoviestar was sired by a disreputable ultracool beatnik hepcat. Indeed, if not for the implication of the “Jr.” designation and the genetic necessity of fatherhood, the average moviegoer would have no idea that a . . . → Read More: THE EARLY FILMS OF ROBERT DOWNEY, SR. (A PRINCE): BABO 73 (1964), CHAFED ELBOWS (1966) AND NO MORE EXCUSES (1968) O slavnosti a hostech “When one lives in a society that is essentially not free, it is the obligation of every thinking person to attack obstacles to freedom in every way at his disposal.”–Jan Nemec DIRECTED BY: Jan Nemec FEATURING: Jan Klusák, Ivan Vyskocil, Evald Schorm PLOT: Seven people are pleasantly picnicking by a . . . → Read More: 115. A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND GUESTS (1966) DIRECTED BY: Richard Lester FEATURING: Ralph Richardson, Michael Hordern, Rita Tushingham, Richard Warwick, Arthur Lowe, Mona Washbourne, Marty Feldman, Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook PLOT: After the Bomb falls, a family who lives on a still-functioning subway train travels to the surface in search of a nurse for their pregnant daughter. WHY IT . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE BED SITTING ROOM (1969) DIRECTED BY: Veit Helmer FEATURING: Denis Lavant, Chulpan Khamatova, Terrence Gillespie, Philippe Clay, Catalina Murgea PLOT: Can a picturesque but dilapidated Turkish bathhouse pass a government inspection, and can love between a poolboy and a female patron flourish after the girl’s father is killed when a piece of the crumbling ceiling falls on him? . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: TUVALU (1999) DIRECTED BY: Steven Soderbergh FEATURING: Steven Soderbergh, Betsy Brantley, David Jensen, Mike Malone PLOT: A series of absurdist sketches and nonsense dialogues linked together by a thin plot about an office worker struggling with an assignment to write a major speech for a cultlike motivational speaker obviously based on L. Ron Hubbard. WHY IT . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: SCHIZOPOLIS (1996) DIRECTED BY: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim FEATURING: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, John C. Reilly, Twink Caplan, Will Ferrell, William Atherton PLOT: Two filmmakers in debt to their patrons take over management of a run-down shopping mall, hoping to make back the money they owe and lose their fake Hollywood attitudes. WHY IT WON’T MAKE . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (2012) DIRECTED BY: Tony Palmer & Frank Zappa FEATURING: Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, Theodore Bikel, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Jimmy Carl Black PLOT: 200 Motels is a series of sketches, experiments and concert footage loosely organized as a reflection on the mixture of insanity and tedium experienced by a rock and roll band on . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: 200 MOTELS (1971) |
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