"There's a real simple answer, and that is we knew everything we were doing in the movie was not original," explains The Vast of Night's Andrew Patterson upon being asked about the framing device of The Paradox Theater at the TIFF Midnight Madness Premiere Q&A.
Patterson further explains the pseudo Twlight Zone/Outer Limits that opens the film to be a "wink" to those who already know what his debut is: The classic story of two kids in over their heads with…
Lights, camera, death.
A perfect film doesn't exist. However, if one were to imbed the immaterial soul of a human being into a two hour feature, then I think they'd be damn close.
All That Jazz is that movie.
The only thing that could further its perfection is if Fosse actually played his stand-in a la Woody Allen and solidified it as a true vision of uncompromising narcissism. Unfortunately, the heart problems that stonewalls his cinematic counterpart's (Joe Gideon) creative…
Good movie but I could never get over the feeling that Renner & Mackie are in super hero mode here (even if their work is ostensibly more crafted in the present form).
I may be the only person on earth who gets drunk and thinks: “Yeah, this is the perfect time to watch a documentary about the 2000 presidential election hosted by Philip Seymour Hoffman.”
