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...1990s pretending to be Stanley Kubrick. The tagline is more apt, however, as a warning for the film. Essentially plotless, “Color Me Kubrick”—a fictionalized account of the Conway affair—is little more than a showcase for John Malkovich (as Conway) and a stockpile of in-jokes for admirers of the late director, best known for “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Such inside jokes are no surprise—director Brian Cook was a prime Kubrick...
...PLOT John Malkovich plays Alan Conway, a travel agent who pretends to be Stanley Kubrick...
...Audiences who gathered this year at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign last weekend were fascinated by David Mamet's enigmatic Spartan, and John Malkovich's performance as a shrewd killer in Ripley's Game, But it was perhaps the least known film of all, the coming-of-age comedy Somebodies, that sent this crowd - a mix of local residents, visiting Ebert fans and industry VIPs - into hysterics. A low-budget digital comedy produced by festival director Nate Kohn and filmed in Georgia, where Kohn teaches film, the film was written by one his students. Three months after...
...Ebert showered all his overlooked favorites with praise. He said it was a "crime" that Malkovich's performance in Ripley's Game was never seen in American movie theaters; he hailed Lodge Kerrigan, director of Claire Dolan, a drama about a prostitute, as a personal "hero" who makes only the films he wants to make the way he wants to make them; and he hailed Junebug as a "spiritual and transcendental" experience, after revealing that a bout with food poisoning caused him to fall asleep during the film's initial screening at Sundance...
...There are plot holes even in the classic of the genre, “In the Line of Fire.” The difference is that Malkovich and Eastwood were acting. Both sides were attractive and there was real tension and mystery. That was a movie. This is an entertainment. It is a better enterntainment than the Wesley Snipes version of a similar story, “Murder at 1600.” But it is an entertainment none-the-less. Take it as such, and enjoy...