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Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

MBunge Based on the true story of a guy who passed himself off as famed directed Stanley Kubrick in London in the late 1990s, taking full advantage of everyone's generous hospitality to the cinema legend, Color Me Kubrick demonstrates two things. One is the difference between a comedian and a comic actor. The other is the subtler the humor, the more it needs to be grounded in realistic observations of human existence. Those two things prevent this film from rising about the merely okay.Alan Conway (John Malkovich) is the aforementioned impostor. He's middle aged, beardless, dresses like a homeless man who fell into the donation bin outside a Goodwill store and knows very little about Kubrick. None of which stops person after person from believing his claims. I'm not sure how it worked in real life, but here Alan persists in the deception until he gets what he wants or has to flee from being found out. With people unwilling to testify in court to being such willing dupes, Alan may have been able to carry out his scam for as long as Kubrick was alive. Unfortunately for him, he tried to pretend in front of the New York Times' Frank Rich and that led to him being publicly revealed. But losing the con that was his life turns out to be just another opportunity for Mr. Conway.I was never bored watching this movie and it's not badly made to any degree. I also didn't laugh once during the whole thing, though smiles were frequent, and it didn't leave me with any sense of who Alan Conway was, why he did what he did or any desire to find out those answers for myself. That's because Color Me Kubrick is one of those comedies that's more wry than funny and I don't think the people who made it were more than superficially interested in those answers.John Malkovich has done enough comedy by now that it's no surprise to see how good he can be at it. I would say this film shows him to be more a great actor who can comedy or drama, rather than a great comedian. His performance here, with the different accents and personalities he gives Alan's pretense, is excellent but limited by the somewhat shallow nature of the material. Malkovich can't make something funnier here than it was on the page, where here it clearly wasn't that funny in the first place. The vast majority of this motion picture is the same blunted punch lines over and over again.1. Look how silly Malkovich is acting!2. Look how gullible these people are to believe this guy is Kubrick!Which gets at the fundamental deficiency in this production. Neither writer Anthony Frewin nor director Brian W. Cook appear to care a whit why Alan does what he does or why he's able to get away with it. I don't get the sense from this movie that either of them spent even 30 seconds talking to any of the people conned by the real Alan or any of the people who knew Alan as Alan in real life. These filmmakers were certainly amused by how Alan fooled so many or else they never would have bothered with this story. However, I don't think they were interested in it as anything more than dull-witted mockery of people the filmmakers think aren't as clever or sophisticated as they are. Every single victim of Alan's, except one, is dumbly entranced by the lure of celebrity in the same way. The one exception is a psychiatrist who's even more addlebrained than that.If you like Malkovich, especially when he's funny, you might find Color Me Kubrick passable. There's nothing here for anyone else.

Cosmoeticadotcom I watched my first pure Netflix fiction film, as opposed to documentary, and it was not good. I was going to watch In The Mood For Love, by Wong Kar-wai, but the picture could not include all of the subtitles at the bottom. The same was true with Masaki Kobayashi's Samurai Rebellion, but that, too, had issues with the framing out of subtitles. Reported both problems, so that dampened the mood for foreign films. Then I came across a 2006 comedy and drama called Color Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story, which is about the noted 1990s impersonator of Stanley Kubrick- a gay man who used Kubrick's own hermitry to his advantage, since few knew what the real Kubrick looked like. People may recall when New York Times drama critic, Frank Rich, wrote of his encounter with the imposter, Alan Conway, at a restaurant. This chance meeting led to Conway's eventual downfall and exposure, and was one of the seminal events in what might be termed the 'Modern Celebrity Crazy Fan Age' which includes stalkers and impersonators. As mild as my renown is, restricted to online arts and film venues, even I've had stalkers and impersonators. But, whereas some celebrities ended up being killed by their pursuers, Conway never sought Kubrick, only to use his name to his own advantage; an idea which fascinated Kubrick, according to reports. It was even rumored that Kubrick considered a screenplay on his own impersonator, but both Conway and Kubrick died before anything could come of it.

meeza COLOR ME KUBRICK: A TRUE…..ISH STORYLife falsely imitates art truly (ok, oxymoron rampage) in the hilarious outlandish "Color Me Kubrick: A True….Ish Story". John Malkovich stars as Alan Conway, a flamboyant witty conman who truly impersonated the legendary Stanley Kubrick in London during the 90's. What was so surreal or unreal in this matter is that his schemes worked. Since Kubrick was considered a recluse in his London home and studio, many Londoners actually fell for Conway's manipulation and handed over lavish gifts & dollars to Stanley Kubrick, I mean, Alan Conway himself! See what I mean! His manipulative ploys worked like "Clockwork" and it was a strange "Odyssey" that had the light "Shining" on Conway and these poor fools did not know how much their "Eyes Wide Shut" vision had them looking like rubbish victims; I thought I would color Kubrick myself with that homage. John Malkovich's eccentric & masterful performance is in the elite class of the year. Hey, he is a superb actor; he was just being his usual John Malkovich grand auteur self. Writer Anthony Ferwin, a longtime Kubrick collaborator, colored the film with comical ingredients with his trueish screenplay. Director Brian Cook spiced up this true story adaptation with meaty experimental direction; just like the master Stanley. Cook, who also was a Kubrick Assistant Director, did learn to cook up film direction from Kubrick himself. So I feed you no bull...it when I say that "Color Me Kubrick: A True….ish Story" paints a pretty comical picture for the movie public. ***** Excellent

ewarn-1 Either DVDs have created too many niche markets, or big time filmmakers have become so disengaged from public tastes that they're willing to come up with anything and shove it in our faces, thinking we will find interest in things that are just not interesting.In recent times, Sean Penn filmed a story about a psychopath who tried to hijack a plane and crash it into Washington D.C. It was based on a true story about a nasty creep who only caused a lot of people trouble and killed some men. Did he rate a motion picture being filmed about his life? No. What was the point, except arrogance on the part of the filmmakers.Colour Me Kubrick is the same type of story, about a nasty little loser who pretends to be someone else because A.) He wants free drinks B.) he's a nasty little loser, or C.) he wants free drinks. That's it. That's the whole story. Funny? No. Interesting? No. Sad? Only in that so much money was wasted on this project.If you're interested in Stanley Kubrick, there is no reason to watch this film, it really has nothing to do with him. The thief who uses his name has no interest in Kubrick or even watches his movies. Generally, the whole thing is a waste of time.