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  How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2022

  Maybe I have watched too many serious movies about mental health, but something about How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick almost instantly pinged my love of absurdist humor when I started watching it. When filmmaker Philip Brubaker first conjured his hero Stanley Kubrick from the year 1980 to confront him about the problematic portrayals of mental illness in his films and Kubrick appeared huddled like a wild raccoon under a flashlight beam, I actually laughed out loud.…

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  Something's Not Quite Right 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Oct 2023

  I was lucky enough to be able to program the colorful and quirky short film Something's Not Quite Right for the annual 2023 Mental Filmness film festival, a Chicago-based film festival about mental health. One of the challenges of programming a film festival about mental health is trying to add enough lighter fare to make it feel less heavy. That doesn’t mean the film has to be frivolous, though. The bright and whimsical Australian short film Something’s Not Quite Right,…

Popular reviews

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  Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself 2020

  ½ Watched 05 Feb 2021 3

  "To me it all felt like one of those dumb quasi-spiritual awakening motivational workshops people pay way too much to see and then tell all their friends changed their life...that just have lame universal messages like "we're all many different people and different things but we're more than that and we're all the same but individuals too"

  People seem to enjoy it so I guess I shouldn't shit all over their parade. I just hope that guy isn't making too…

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  Annette 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Aug 2021 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.