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Io so che tu sai che io so (1982)
Overlooked warm-hearted comedy
For some reasons, this movie seems to be totally forgotten, though it deserves better. Alberto Sordi is a great comic actor, and here he is at his best. By sheer accident, private investigators begin surveillance of his wife, and he comes to know many surprising things about her and himself, sometimes upsetting, sometimes moving, and mostly very funny. It is a very Italian movie, and at the same time very universal in its view of everyday life.
Io so che tu sai che io so (1982)
Overlooked warm-hearted comedy
For some reasons, this movie seems to be totally forgotten, though it deserves better. Alberto Sordi is a great comic actor, and here he is at his best. By sheer accident, private investigators begin surveillance of his wife, and he comes to know many surprising things about her and himself, sometimes upsetting, sometimes moving, and mostly very funny. It is a very Italian movie, and at the same time very universal in its view of everyday life.
Charlotte Sometimes (2002)
Waste of time
This film was shown by Roger Ebert at his "Overlooked Film Festival," and Michael Idemoto was on stage with other actors. He is as dumb as he is in the movie, his "reading" throughout the movie is a cheap image of an "intellectual," and carries no substance. The movie has been shot using a video camera in about a week, and it shows. Ebert was trying to sell this movie as a sort of counterpoint to stereotypes about Asian-Americans. It remains unclear what stereotypes are addressed, if any. There is no story to speak of, the only nice thing in the movie is picturesque area of San Francisco, which can be shown in five minutes. Summary: waste of time.
Your Friends and Neighbors (1998)
Stuff for a sexologist
There is one guy in the movie who is basically good, decent family man, but has a sex problem. Instead of sending him to a sex doctor who would easily treat him, the authors surround him with pretty low characters and create a set of highly artificial sex maniacs. Their clumsy attempt to create an ugly satire of society is a complete failure: these are neither our friends, nor neighbors. The bond between the three men in the center of the movie remains a puzzle, they have and never had anything in common. Summary: filthy imagination, boring result.
Medium Cool (1969)
Radical left propaganda
Part of this movie is a documentary filmed during the infamous Democratic convention of 1968. The selection of material is highly biased: we see crowds of peaceful and idle young people and threatening and brutal police force. We don't see that these people are mostly high, that they will loot and burn half of Chicago, that the riots are planned and coordinated. How else could Haskel Waksel bring the whole crew in the middle of the action? There are two equally biased fictional political episodes, which are supposed to create an impression of documentary. One shows a group of militant black "activists," whose obvious racism and hatred is underplayed by the camera; and then there is a group of white women at a shooting range, who are trying to learn self-defense. This last scene is more like a cartoon. Finally, there is a melodramatic story poorly woven into the rioting, with the main character developing from a cruel and cold-blooded reporter to a sweetie who courts an unattractive widow of a Vietnam soldier by caring for her son. The plot is so weak that the authors end it by killing main characters in a sudden car crash. Summary: watch if you want to see how liberal lies are created. Pictures of Chicago in 1968 are colorful, though.