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...When the old man leaves on a trip - he's actually casing the competition to see how they bring in the customers - Mike is left in charge. But Jerry has had a little accident at a local power station: his body has been magnetized, and when he touches the video boxes he instantly erases all the tapes, rendering them useless. The demand by a stern lady of the neighborhood, Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow, a living connection to the Zelig trope), to watch Ghostbusters sends the guys scurrying to make their own 20-min. version of the old Bill Murray comedy...
...director who worked with Charlie Kaufman on the Jim Carrey time-slip comedy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to bang home his point that all moviemaking, whether a tiny indie film or a Michael Bay extravaganza, are communal enterprises. The whole town not only lines up to rent Mike and Jerry's faux films, they join in their production, serving as extras and gofers...
...garage or the garbage. As someone who, over the past 20 years, has compiled a library of something like 10,000 movies on that ancient format - and feels like some geezer still hanging on to his 78s far into the CD era - I feel the devotion of Mike and Jerry to VHS, even as I wonder whether these tapes will disintegrate before...
...Fans of Michel Gondry will attest to the French director’s unique artistic vision and the accompanying sense of smarmy humor that vivifies this exchange from his fourth feature film, “Be Kind Rewind.” Its main characters Jerry (Jack Black) and Mike (Mos Def) are arguing over the marketability of their shorter, home-made interpretation of “Rush Hour 2.” The implication is clear: Gondry doesn’t think much of Brett Ratner’s oeuvre. But what does he think of the people who watch...
Jerking his thick eyebrows halfway up his forehead, Mike L. Reiss ’81 hastily waved off applause from a crowd at Harvard Hillel yesterday as he stood at the podium. “This is weird,” said Reiss, a writer and producer of ‘The Simpsons.’ “This is not easy for me to come back to the alma mater and give a speech for free.” Reiss roused his audience into laughter with his deadpan jokes, comic timing, and clips from...