Word: ever
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilford prides himself on being more relaxed than your high school's starting quarterback ever was. He enjoys taking late breakfasts of pancakes and eggs and says one of his most important goals is to get eight to 10 hours of sleep each night...
...sublime garble of ideas, the film's pleasures are unlike the pleasures of almost any other marquee picture ever produced. This is a true screwball comedy in the classic sense, in which none of the characters are "straight men," and everyone is insane in their own, inimitably comic way. Here, unlike, say, Bringing up Baby or Flirting with Disaster, the world itself is insane and unstable, as if God himself were just another kook. It's like a wrestling match with the walls erased, and the rules unknown - you'd better watch your seat, because you might be sitting inside...
...This may be a poor metaphor - a touch on the heavy-handed side - but I think it evokes the sheer strangeness of watching Being John Malkovich, perhaps the oddest romp of a movie I have ever seen. It is a comedy about getting inside other people's heads, and it has the kick of a head trip, which is a clich even though the film is not. This film will polarize people. There will be many people who will hate this film as much as they have ever hated anything, who will break off relationships with dates who dare...
...same: Fowler is the first to admit that he is no celebrity (or divinity, for that matter), and it's clear that this whole Jesus thing has not gone to his head. Getting into the character of Jesus has been the most difficult acting job Fowler has ever undertaken. "What bigger challenge is there," he says, "than to portray a character I think no one can really hope to understand...
...Lynch, the end does not necessarily justify the means, and as anyone who has ever seen his movies could attest, to seek gratification contingent only on a David Lynch ending will force you to question the price of your admission ticket. Even without our complete comprehension, Lynch always manages to show something unexpected, something fresh. But is this any less justified of an approach to filmmaking? Sure, we know what's going to happen, 15 minutes into the movie and this fact, coupled with our optimistic belief that happy endings still exist, leaves us confident that Alvin Straight will...