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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

The AV Club runs down Crispin Glover's film...

Crispin Glover is a legendary Hollywood eccentric, famous for his role in Back to the Future, as well as for printing his home phone number in the odd rock album he put out in the 80s (really, we used to have the LP at KZSC).

Josh Modell of the Onion AV Club attended a screening of Glover's feature film, "What Is It?" and describes it thusly:
Then, the movie. In an interview you can read elsewhere on this site, Glover insisted to our own Keith Brammer that What Is It? has a narrative structure, and you’ve gotta believe that it does to him, but 72 minutes of strange encounters portrayed by actors with Down’s Syndrome (and Glover himself) won’t be following any traditional story arc. Instead, there’s a lot of snail killing, some swastikas, Shirley Temple, a minstrel, murder, an alternate universe (apparently the main character’s inner self), and more. Did I mention the naked man with cerebral palsy who’s manually stimulated (at length) by a naked woman wearing a monkey mask? Yeah, that happens. And he’s resting inside a giant clam shell at the time.


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3 Comments:

Anonymous cibbuano said...

wait.. who was he in Back to the Future?

May 09, 2006 4:19 PM  
Blogger Jesse Thorn said...

He was George McFly. But he refused to be in II and III.

May 09, 2006 4:21 PM  
Blogger beach said...

I have his self photocopied book "Rat Catching"... wherein he takes an old leather bound book about how to rid your community of rats and scribbles all over it taking out and adding words to change the context. To what, I don't know. But for some reason it's one of my favorite things.

May 09, 2006 5:04 PM  

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