Word: tristram
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...more truth in that title than most whole films.” Would hearing a pretentious Production Assistant declaiming these words—a reference to a classic film by German filmmaker Rainer Warner Fassbinder—induce peals of laughter? If you answered yes, then “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story” is the perfect movie...
...adaptation a comical tribute to how tough it is to adapt the novel to screen. The scenes switch between actors reenacting scenes from the book and the same actors interacting “off-screen” with the production staff of the faux-film. Steve Coogan stars as Tristram Shandy himself and as Shandy’s father in the movie within a movie. Off-screen, he plays himself, “Steve Coogan...
Despite Coogan’s obvious acting talent, the self-mockery shtick he presents in “Tristram Shandy” is nothing new. He played the same role—an arrogant actor named Steve Coogan—in a brilliantly awkward exchange with Alfred Molina in Jim Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes...
...answer comes in a comment on the novel in the movie Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story: the book is "a postmodern classic written before there was any modernism to be post about. So it's way ahead of its time." Its spirit can be caught only in a blithe, brazen adaptation of the sort that director Michael Winterbottom and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce have concocted with the aid of game cast members who apply the scalpel of parody to themselves as well as to the material. To put this in simple English, Cock and Bull begins by dramatizing...
...mind, except to note that it sidles up to the hero's birth and impromptu, painfully comic circumcision. What matters here is the casting of the two--sorry, six--leads. Steve Coogan, the Brit comic best known for incarnating Alan Partridge, a suavely unknowing TV host, plays four roles: Tristram, his father, Sterne and a put-upon egomaniac star named Steve Coogan. Rob Brydon, who has worked often with Coogan, plays Tristram's Uncle Toby and "Rob Brydon." Much of the film's grace and brass come from their comic kinship, as when they compare Pacino impressions, or discuss...