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...aptly-titled Permanent Midnight is not a movie about things that thappen so much as it is a movie about a movie. The scenes exist independently of one another, rarely referring to each other. They are strung along the same thread, but could all exist as shorts, or be reshuffled and a drastically different film would not have been created. Jerry Stahl (played by the ubiquitous Ben Stiller) does not follow his own advice and belt out any gospel, but by all means he could do so without causing the film any disruption. The real life Jerry Stahl was shooting...
...professor pooh-poohs the digital precision of rating systems, at least for Bad Doubles players: "You cannot tell the difference between a 6.0 and a 6.2," he says. But even players like me should consider string tension: "The tighter the strings, the less power you get," he explains. Racquets strung less tightly launch the ball like a trampoline but with some loss of control...
...performance, which included song and dance, strung together real statements from politicians, academics, journalists and prison inmates to represent interactions among the public, media and president...
WHADDYA MEAN, HIGH-STRUNG...
...toys with the play as well, dropping entire characters (no Fortinbras), tossing in home movies of Hamlet and his father, and setting the early scenes at a swank big-band dance party. The conceit soon loses steam, however, leaving us with a fairly straightforward reading, sparked by the high-strung Hamlet of Alex Jennings...