Best appreciated as a rather amusing farce called The John Malkovich Show, the movie's every scene is anchored, then stolen, by the commanding thespian's Alan act.
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05/01/06
Color Me Kubrick (2007)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:29
Rotten:28
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Colour Me Kubrick has a fascinating premise, but provides little insight into Kubrick and the man who impersonated him.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: For months Alan Conway, a perfect stranger, passed himself off as one of the greatest film directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick. Conway knew nothing of the filmmaker or his films, but this... [More]
Starring: John Malkovich, Honor Blackman, Bryan Dick, Leslie Phillips
Director: Brian W. Cook
Reviews for Color Me Kubrick
There is a giddy pleasure in watching people, great and small, most who should know much better, fall over themselves to be film-flammed
03/21/07
John Malkovich gets to have a field day as the slovenly, unappealing Conway ...
03/22/07
Relentlessly sordid, but John Malkovich's imaginatively outlandish performance is worth watching.
03/23/07
Even if the film is essentially a one-man show, a one-man show starring John Malkovich is bound to be really damn good.
03/26/07
It's a truffle of a movie that may leave you feeling like you ate one too many purple chocolates, but secondary performances by Honor Blackman (remember the original "Avengers") and the ever-kooky Ken Russell add texture to the comic motif.
02/20/07
Scarcely an insightful biographical portrait, Color Me Kubrick is still interesting, perhaps even intimidating, as a study of the way fandom can so readily be turned against itself.
03/23/07
Top CriticJohn Malkovich has a blast, so will you!
03/26/07
[A] loopy lark...the sheer goofiness of the premise, together with its gossipy 'insider' nature [and] the take-no-prisoners performance of John Malkovich...carry it along.
03/26/07
A ludicrous, but entertaining look at a real-life Kubrick impersonator, played with over-the-top glee by Malkovich.
03/22/07
It's no 'Six Degrees of Separation' but Malkovich charms the audience as much as his marks, making this solid sit-com entertainment
03/24/07
The irony of Color Me Kubrick is that the visual tricks merely serve as a backdrop for Malkovich's inspired high-wire performance.
04/01/07
Writer Anthony Frewin and director Brian Cook uses Conway's unlikely saga to mount an appreciative send-up of a certain style of gay extravagance, with John Malkovich having a field day as Conway.
03/22/07
put forth with...an unapologetic sense of depraved fun...
08/05/06
Malkovich pulls out all the gaudy stops.
03/23/07
This is a kicky little movie.
03/31/07
[Kubrick] might dismiss as trite the message that proximity to celebrity is so intoxicating, it stupefies. But one hopes he'd relish the cheerful audacity of the caper and its telling.
03/23/07
John Malkovich has one of the roles of his life, and he acts it up like a haughty gourmet who's just picked up a succulent treat.
03/22/07
Malkovich's performance, and the irresistible concept of an anonymous man dining out on a false identity, carries the film along giddily, and Cook wisely keeps Color Me Kubrick short and deliciously tart.
03/23/07
The film reveals, rather delectably, how potent the power of suggestion can be in a world gone madly groupie.
03/21/07
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