Tropic Thunder is taking heavy fire, not for Robert Downey Jr.’s blackface performance, but rather for Ben Stiller’s spoof movie-within-a-movie, Simple Jack. Is this a case of political correctness gone too far? Or does Hollywood have serious flaws in how it portrays people with disabilities? The latter may have been Stiller’s point all along…
Our friend Kevin Kelly shares the tale of his journey to the fabled Skywalker Ranch to see Clone Wars and meet the elusive George Lucas. The film, essentially a two hour trailer for the upcoming animated series, gets into some pretty wonky territory when it asks the question we’ve all wondered: What would Truman Capote be like as a Hutt?
Karina checks in with what she’s watching. An Elliott Gould retrospective sheds some light on Little Murders and Jean-Luc Godard’s refusal to direct it. Also, Azazel Jacobs, director of the upcoming Mamma’s Man, Doris Day in Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, and soft-core porn sci-fi web show, The Fold.
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FilmCouch 83
4:07 - Tropic Thunder
16:50 - The Clone Wars, Skywalker Ranch
25:30 - Karina’s Media Diet
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Azazel Jacobs wrote and directed Momma’s Man, the tale of a grown man who decides to move back in with his parents. Not only did he decide to film the movie in his parents’ apartment, he chose to cast his actual parents in the role, his mother Flo and his father, the famous experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs. In this interview Azazel and star Matt Boren reflect on living with their parents during production, and a chance encounter with the films of John Casavettes that turned a budding experimental filmmaker on to the power of narrative.
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Also on SpoutBlog:
Sundance 2008: Momma’s Man -Karina’s review of Momma’s Man.
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