If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and you imitate yourself, does that mean you’re flattering yourself too? Catherine Breillat, a director often accused of taking herself too seriously while trying to punish the audience, tried to pull off this self-flattery thing with her 2002 film Sex is Comedy, which mocked her infamous 2001 [...]
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On the 1987 Burt Reynolds exploitation thriller Malone.
"Burt Reynolds is an ex-_____(moustachioed-noun) running from his past who finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs across a small _____(place/and/or/female) controlled by _____(pony-tailed/and/or/albinoed-noun) and a family that's resisting their _____(whatever).
I love Burt Reynolds Madlibs."
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Tags: Adam Lippe, Ally Sheedy, ashtray, Ben Gazzara, Bernadette Peters, camp, Catherine Breillat, Charlotte Rampling, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Cynthia Stevenson, Dogma, dump, dumped, Dylan Walsh, exploitation, Fat Girl, Fear Anxiety and Depression, gay, Halloween, Happiness, homophobia, Jane Adams, Jared Hess, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jon Lovitz, karaoke, Kevin Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle, low budget, Mallrats, movie, movie review, Napoleon Dynamite, nerd, Palindromes, parody, Paul Reubens, pedophile, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, prank phone call, R rated, R. Lee Ermey, rape, RegrettableSincerity.com, sex, Sex is Comedy, Shirley Henderson, soccer mom, Storytelling, The Brady Bunch, Todd Solondz, Welcome to the Dollhouse
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Life During Wartime
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Tags: Adam Lippe, Ally Sheedy, ashtray, Ben Gazzara, Bernadette Peters, camp, Catherine Breillat, Charlotte Rampling, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Cynthia Stevenson, Dogma, dump, dumped, Dylan Walsh, exploitation, Fat Girl, Fear Anxiety and Depression, gay, Halloween, Happiness, homophobia, Jane Adams, Jared Hess, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jon Lovitz, karaoke, Kevin Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle, low budget, Mallrats, movie, movie review, Napoleon Dynamite, nerd, Palindromes, parody, Paul Reubens, pedophile, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, prank phone call, R rated, R. Lee Ermey, rape, RegrettableSincerity.com, sex, Sex is Comedy, Shirley Henderson, soccer mom, Storytelling, The Brady Bunch, Todd Solondz, Welcome to the Dollhouse
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A podcast with Nash Edgerton, director of The Square
By Adam Lippe
Australian stuntman Nash Edgerton made his first feature, The Square, back in 2008, but it was just released in the US. The film is a twisty noir that takes place in a small, insular town, similar to Henrik Ruben Genz’s Terribly Happy (which also got a podcast dedicated to it). I interviewed Edgerton along with[...]
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On Watchmen:
At the funeral of the conflicted, narcissistic, and mean-spirited superhero The Comedian, each of what appears to be ten different people get their own extremely detailed flashback to their interactions with their fallen friend. As the camera slowly moves past each character that had their screen time, eventually stopping at whom I thought was the priest, who then gets five minutes to look to his past, I kept waiting for the dirt and the coffin to get their fill in too.
