Thursday, July 15, 2004
Let Me Recommend Something (and/or Some Things)
Lately some fantastic movies from years gone by have been getting released on DVD for the very first time. In addition to the 1980 megaclassic Midnight Madness (a brief conversation about which you can read at Big Gray's weblog), an absolutely stupendous film called The President's Analyst started popping up in stores a few weeks ago. If you like absurdist hippie psychoanalytic conspiracy comedy-thriller satires, you might like this movie. If you like making fun of the '60's and all the bullshit what that entails, you might like this movie even more. It's got James Coburn, who was always never less than 1000% man, and also Severn Darden, who was some bigwig in Second City back in the '50's and '60's, and who helped create the standard improv format that was once unique and innovative but has now been completely stripped of all humor and life. But so it's a hell of a flick, easily one of the top 4,000 or so movies ever made. I recommend it as heartily as I recommend eating peanut butter sandwiches when drunk and lonely on a Thursday evening. It WILL invigorate you.
Lately some fantastic movies from years gone by have been getting released on DVD for the very first time. In addition to the 1980 megaclassic Midnight Madness (a brief conversation about which you can read at Big Gray's weblog), an absolutely stupendous film called The President's Analyst started popping up in stores a few weeks ago. If you like absurdist hippie psychoanalytic conspiracy comedy-thriller satires, you might like this movie. If you like making fun of the '60's and all the bullshit what that entails, you might like this movie even more. It's got James Coburn, who was always never less than 1000% man, and also Severn Darden, who was some bigwig in Second City back in the '50's and '60's, and who helped create the standard improv format that was once unique and innovative but has now been completely stripped of all humor and life. But so it's a hell of a flick, easily one of the top 4,000 or so movies ever made. I recommend it as heartily as I recommend eating peanut butter sandwiches when drunk and lonely on a Thursday evening. It WILL invigorate you.
