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    Cold Souls' Soul-Extracting Ideas Never Quite Warm Up

    Watch 7 Clips From Paul Giamatti's Soul-Rattling New Movie

    Yes, It's A Charlie Kaufman Pastiche Starring Paul Giamatti. Got A Problem With That?

    Philip K. Dick's Widow Self-Publishes Novel About PKD And The Magic Flute

    Kaufman-esque Sundance Comedy Lands Movie Deal

    Gorgeous Stills Glamorize Soul-Stealing Machines And Dead Astronaut Clones

    Paul Giamatti Wears Fully-Functional Rocket Belt in "Pretty Bird"
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    Image of edosan edosan
    08/12/09

    In reply to Cold Souls' Soul-Extracting Ideas Never Quite Warm Up
    Paul Giamatti? Pass.
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake.
    08/12/09

    In reply to Cold Souls' Soul-Extracting Ideas Never Quite Warm Up
    As most self-ascribed, psuedo-intellectuals (translation: borderline social autistic, cynical poopheads), I adore Kaufman. So when I heard about this I cringed a little. Then I relaxed. Then I saw that the director and writer were one and the same and my cringe turned into a full-blown frown. These artists need to stop stretching themselves so thin. Yes, teams-of-one can make good movies, but great movies come from a gathering of minds.
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    Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was starred Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was unstarred
    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    07/04/09

    In reply to Watch 7 Clips From Paul Giamatti's Soul-Rattling New Movie
    ...please tell me it's better than that waste of time 'sideways'.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    07/04/09

    @KhaiJB: You're kidding, right? I *loved* Sideways!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    07/04/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: out of 4 of us that sat to watch it, 2 fell asleep and the other 2 changed the DVD for something else...
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    Image of Camille Camille
    07/04/09

    @Chip Overclock: I though it was a great movie and I'm a skinny teenager.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/04/09

    @Camille: As a married woman and someone who's done a lot of wine tasting, I too thought it was crap.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    07/04/09

    @KhaiJB: the four of us that watched it ranged from 25 to mid 40's.. a teacher, a chef, an ex realtor and myself a graphics designer..


    I got halfway through before I fell asleep.. and in that time no one laughed. no one even cracked a smile. afterward's we all wondered what movie the rave reviews were for, because we were of the opinion they were not for the movie we rented.


    I've heard the same opinion from many others I've talked to.


    *shrug* I guess we were not the target for it..

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    Image of Borgasm Borgasm
    07/05/09

    @KhaiJB: Add me and my woman as two people who want that hour and a half of our lives back.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/05/09

    @KhaiJB: @I am Blork: This is another reason why io9 is my people.
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    Image of Weirdsmobile Weirdsmobile
    06/22/09

    In reply to Yes, It's A Charlie Kaufman Pastiche Starring Paul Giamatti. Got A Problem With That?
    This is the kind of comparison that kind of annoys me, to be frank. Here's what happens: a lot of artists creating in a certain style toil in obscurity. Eventually the zeitgeist syncs up with that style and you have a breakthrough success (like Charlie Kaufman) that compels the suits to open the door to "more like what this guy did." We see more projects similar to the breakthrough success. End result? All those other artists get accused of "ripping off" or "being inspired by" the original artist, regardless of how long they've been working in their style, or even if they were doing it before the guy who broke through.


    I mean yeah, sure, any success in the creative arts is going to inspire hordes of imitators. But it's just not fair or accurate to label something in a similar style to Charlie Kaufman a "Charlie Kaufman Pastiche" just because Kaufman was talented AND fortunate enough to be successful with a voice that is distinctively his, but not necessarily unique to him.


    P.S. I am not Sophie Barthes, nor do I know her, despite my full-throated defense of this person I've never heard of and who may well be a shameless Kaufman ripper-offer. :)

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    06/22/09

    @Weirdsmobile: Being John Malkovich was released in 1999. Sophie Barthes started writing Cold Souls in 2005. I've seen both -- there are similarities and there are differences. But if she didn't know her film would face these kinds of comparisons and slights, she should have.
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    Image of James Spurrier James Spurrier
    06/22/09

    In reply to Yes, It's A Charlie Kaufman Pastiche Starring Paul Giamatti. Got A Problem With That?
    Sorry guys, I agree with Charlie Jane, Stranger Than Fiction was an okay way to spend two hours, but it was hardly compelling Kaufmanesque cinema. First of all, the filmmakers kept forgetting their own film's premise (an unseen novelist narrates a man's life as it happens in a voice that only he can hear), with long, fairly eventful stretches of the movie where the narration disappears entirely FOR NO REASON. It smells like a tacked-on romantic subplot was added at the behest of the studio. Secondly, the bits of narration from the in-film novel that we hear are vaguely clever in a second-rate Douglas Adams knockoff sort of way, but they don't live up to the description of "literary genius" that the film's characters seem so eager to bestow on it. Stranger Than Fiction had some good ideas, but it totally failed to capitalize on them in the way a Charlie Kaufman script would.


    At least the music by Spoon was pretty good.

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    Image of Plague Plague
    06/22/09

    @James Spurrier: I agree with your assessment.


    Except for the Spoon part.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    06/22/09

    @James Spurrier: You pretty much exactly summed up my feelings about that movie. Thanks!
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    Image of Steve Mohundro Steve Mohundro
    06/22/09

    In reply to Yes, It's A Charlie Kaufman Pastiche Starring Paul Giamatti. Got A Problem With That?
    I saw this at the Seattle International Film Festival, and I don't think it's quite as off-kilter as most Kaufman's stuff. It's also not quite as hard sci-fi as you might think. It takes the basic premise that there's a machine and method that can be used to remove people's souls and put in different ones and runs with it. Which souls have value, and what happens when you have someone else's soul inside you or no soul at all? I liked it quite a bit, though. It's worth seeing.
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    06/22/09

    @Steve Mohundro: Saw it at SIFF also. The film also toys with Russian stage drama, and how "heavy" the Russian soul must be to produce such heartbreaking theater. But it's a trifle without Giamatti in the key role. That man owns.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/22/09

    In reply to Yes, It's A Charlie Kaufman Pastiche Starring Paul Giamatti. Got A Problem With That?
    Why is this a Kaufman clone? Judging from the trailer, there only seem to be a few passing resemblances.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/17/09

    In reply to Philip K. Dick's Widow Self-Publishes Novel About PKD And The Magic Flute
    PKD and music makes me think of his short story "The Preserving Machine" from 1953. I think it was the 1st Dick I ever read. Jonathan Lethem discusses it in his review of Roberto Bolaño: [www.nytimes.com]
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    02/17/09

    In reply to Philip K. Dick's Widow Self-Publishes Novel About PKD And The Magic Flute
    Eh, no, not buying it.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/30/08

    In reply to Gorgeous Stills Glamorize Soul-Stealing Machines And Dead Astronaut Clones
    Is that Tom Servo assisting Giamatti in the top picture?
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/30/08

    In reply to Gorgeous Stills Glamorize Soul-Stealing Machines And Dead Astronaut Clones
    Picture 5: Paul Giamatti and what appears to be a years supply of 1987 Beaujolais being sealed into a giant roll of toilet paper was fairly close to the original screenplay for Sideways
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