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List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2005 DVD Release : 27 March, 2007 |
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Color Me Kubrick description Color Me Kubrick tells the slyly amusing and "true-ish" story about a brazen impostor who pretended to be one of the world's greatest filmmakers. As British comedies go it's a bit of a trifle, but constantly enjoyable for cinephiles devoted to Stanley Kubrick and his films. In a foppishly flamboyant performance, John Malkovich dons a fab-ulously colorful wardrobe and uses a comical variety of voices as Alan Conway, an eccentrically gay outcast who spent most of the 1990s convincing his gullible targets that he was Stanley Kubrick, despite bearing no resemblance to the real Kubrick and knowing next to nothing about the director's celebrated films. Preying (with startling success) upon their ignorance and their fawning desire to seek favors from this "legendary filmmaker," Conway conned his mostly gay victims into giving him money, sex, and other kinds of ill-earned appreciation, and Color Me Kubrick (completed two years before its simultaneous release to theaters and DVD) does a terrific job of showing how Conway managed to maintain this charade for nearly a decade before he was "outed" by New York Times columnist Frank Rich, whose own encounter with Conway would eventually lead to the faux-Kubrick's undoing. It's pretty slight stuff, as comedies go, but it boasts plenty of authority behind the camera: Both director Brian Cook and screenwriter Anthony Frewin were close associates of Kubrick's for decades, and they have terrific fun by peppering their film with a variety of Kubrickian in-jokes, from the frequent use of music featured in Kubrick's own films to a variety of visual in-jokes that Kubrick worshippers will instantly recognize. Add to this Malkovich's crazily unhindered performance, and you've got a nice little cult comedy that will keep you laughing if you're in the right mood. Keep your eyes wide open for cameo appearances by Marisa Berenson (who appeared in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon), Peter Sallis (the voice of Wallace in the Wallace and Gromit films), and director Ken Russell, among others. --Jeff Shannon |
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| "Color Me Kubrick"
A "Tru-ish" Story Amos Lassen There are very few people who are not aware of who Stanley Kubrick was. His death left a void in fimmaking and those of us that have seen "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" are not likely to ever forget them. The film "Color Me Kubrick" is based on a true event which occurred in the 1990's when Kubrick was filming "Eyes Wide Shut", his last film. It stars John Malkovich as flamboyant gay male who somehow manages to impersonate the director. Malkovich is Alan Conway pretending to be Stanley Kubrick and he does so with a great deal of camp. Conway leads a good life (that he manages somehow to get other people to pay for). He also is able to persuade young good-looking men to drop their pants for him. Malkovich gives an amazing performance albeit slightly over the top. He is a man of many accents and mannerisms and uses them all. He makes fun of other Hollywood actors and appears to be having a wonderful time playing this role. He is perfectly at home playing Conway as he peels off layer after layer of weirdness. What makes this so interesting is that Conway, the real man, knew absolutely nothing about Kubrick yet he managed to pull off this imitation until he was ultimately discovered by the theater critic for "The New York Times", Frank Rich. The costumes are amazing and Malkovich wears them like a trooper. At times he is dressed as a bum and at other times as a stereotypical flamer. He manages to seduce what seems to be the entire gamut of masculinity. This movie is a great joke. When Conway as Kubrick promises a young Liberace like man to star in a Las Vegas show we see how Conway works his game. I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining no brainer of a film. I just sat back, watched and enjoyed myself all the way through. |
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