Color Me Kubrick

Amazon.com 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 Product Description John Malkovich delivers a charming performance as Alan Conway, a man who cons people into believing he's the famed director Stanley Kubrick. Despite lacking knowledge about the director's work, Conway manages to succeed as imposter for nearly the entire last decade of the actual man's life. Director Brian Cook Star John Malkovich Special Features: Full Frame Format, Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Featurettes.
ASIN: B000MNOX9O
VSKU: DBV.B000MNOX9O.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:John Malkovich|Jim Davidson|Richard E. Grant|Nick Barber|Honor Blackman|Tom Allen|Angus Barnett|Marisa Berenson|Scott Baker|Linda Bassett|Lynda Baron|Peter Bowles|Brian W. Cook|Anthony Frewin
Binding: Dvd
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