Noo! 16:9? Yeah, it was 1.85:1 originally… WHYYYY
16:9 sucks all the fun out of movies.
Wow, this is quite something else. It reminds me a bit of Hal Hartley movies made around the same time? Absurd but not quite.
OK, the plot here doesn’t make much sense. He apparently has $500K in art and stuff, but instead of selling some of that stuff off, he goes to his uncle and asks for a $50K loan… and if he doesn’t pay him back in six weeks, his uncle will take all those $500Ks worth of stuff.
That’s just… stupid. I mean, he’s supposed to be pretty dim, I guess, but even so.
But I mean it’s a good setup for a screwball comedy, I guess.
This is a very funny movie. It reminds me so much of the screwball comedies of the 30s, but updated. The twist is that the Mattheau character isn’t very sympathetic, but the audience is rooting for him to become one. Which is a pretty 30s plot, I guess?
Anyway, I loved this movie. It’s almost a ⚅, but not quite — the last half is perfect, but the first half is a bit clunky in setting everything up.
A New Leaf. Elaine May. 1971. ⚄
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