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Friday, November 13, 2009

Film This Week in Film: We Live in Public and (Untitled)

Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:26 PM

David Schmader approves of We Live in Public:

Nearly a decade before Big Brother, Josh Harris was playing Big Brother, creating a series of outlandish and extreme "human experiments" presented as entertainments for what he dreamed would be an ever-growing audience of round-the-clock internet viewers. In the end, Harris drove himself crazy, Pseudo.com went bust, and, eight years later, documentarian Ondi Timoner expertly captured the whole brilliant mess on film.

Eric Grandy disapproves of (Untitled):

Adam Goldberg is a brooding and failing experimental composer; his brother is a successful painter of institutional art. Goldberg makes crap that nobody likes: unlistenable avant-garde skronk-as-slapstick (his pieces involve, among other things, the sound of him kicking a bucket hanging on a string). His brother makes crap that lots of people like: gentle, inoffensive pastel abstracts that are all but designed for hotel and hospital lobbies. Neither is happy; both want to continue making crap yet be regarded as geniuses. They must have the deepest sympathies of this film's director and screenwriters.

Read both reviews, and lots more, HERE.