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...Fool, a three-person design team employed by the Beatles, created the poster A Is for Apple (1967), with its warped landscape, stars, parrots and smiling Native American. It demonstrates how designers of psychedelia recycled old kitsch: Art Nouveau squiggles, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Victorian advertisements and early Hollywood movies. Thanks to the invention of DayGlo in the late '40s, artists turned this ragbag into something hallucinatory. This was the art that teenagers peeled off hoardings to hang in their bedrooms. In New Aleph Sanctury (1963-71) by German-born Mati Klarwein, painted panels crawling with multicolored figures form a small...
Still, Downey and Kilmer settle easily into their roles. We’re used to seeing Downey as the blundering clown, and he’s pretty good as a fast-talking New Yorker in Hollywood. Despite his character’s sexuality, Kilmer essentially plays the same tough guy he did in “Spartan” and “The Saint...
This film isn’t going to win any Oscars and it won’t be a blockbuster, but it has the makings of a minor cult hit. For anyone who loves pulp, hates Hollywood, or feels like they need a bit more of Robert Downey, Jr. in their lives, “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” will be a worthwhile rental...
...Harvard Crimson, Kilmer and Black—either from jet-lag or sheer fatigue of the press junket circuit—dismissively respond to questions about their equally insipid film. The Harvard Crimson: “Kiss Kiss” takes an incredibly cynical view of Los Angeles and Hollywood. Do you think it was an accurate depiction of show business? Black: It’s entirely accurate. It’s like…every day a bus arrives in L.A., and the bus driver says, “Okay, how many people here were [sexually] abused...
...molds Henry Letham into a neurotic, heart-broken painter. Gosling—a favorite of teenage girls and desperate housewives since his heart-warming and passionate turn in “The Notebook”—proves he’s more than just another pretty young-Hollywood face. In fact, Gosling so deeply retreats into the depressed, otherworldly character of Henry Letham, memories of his days on “The Mickey Mouse Club” are completely obliterated and the muscles he flexed as a teenage killer in “Murder by Numbers?...