A cipher makes a movie about a cipher, told through the eyes of another cipher. Cipher # 1 is Baz Luhrmann, a shameless vulgarian with a gimlet eye for tacky pageantry; Cipher #2 is Elvis Presley, aka Mr Tacky Pageantry, whom, if this (of course) completely fabulist hagiography is to be believed, was a noble, blameless victim of his own boundless talent, comic-book charisma, and salt-of-the-earth empathy (as well as a bird who fell asleep with the wind beneath his…
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes 2007
Gotta say that this pretty much sucks; saw it was on TUBI and it took a lot of willpower to not fast forward, not out of shock or awe or anger but boredom. The problem is, as usual, a filmmaker (in this case, a confederate of the guy who ended up making DEAR EVAN HANSEN!) trying to “implicate” the viewer in his own semi-purposeful sadism, and tripping over the multiple formal , narrative and rhetorical obstacles he’s placed along the…
