Recovery

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I took this on the corner of Broadway and 49th right after catching a noon showing of Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected, a kind of Nazis-and-Jews Marat/Sade cinema-of-the-absurd concoction, based on a respected book by Yoram Kaniuk, about a man's gradual recovery from the horrors of World War II.

I needed a moment to collect myself and for some reason locked in on Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow as a way back into my pre-Adam headspace.

Adam Resurrected played at Telluride but doesn't open until late December, so there's plenty of time to get into it. There's no question about Jeff Goldblum having given one of those exceptional, out-there, once-in-a-career performances that too few actors in their autumnal years get a chance to rock out and kick ass with. But after you've acknowledged this (and many have thus far), the question is "to what end?"

The line I was saying to myself as I walked out of the Brill Building was, "I sink there iss maybe a little too much dog-barking in this film....no?"

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 12, 2008 at 2:39 PM

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joncro says ...

brill building! I used to be a runner at sound one

Posted by joncro at November 12, 2008 3:14 PM

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Ryansi51 says ...

Rachel Maddow was on Colbert the other night, and I have to say even with those thick coke-bottle sunglasses she was wearing she's got a certain thing going on that I like.

My girlfriend insists she's a lesbian, I insist she's jealous.

Posted by Ryansi51 at November 12, 2008 4:00 PM

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Dan Revill says ...

She is a lesbian.

Posted by Dan Revill at November 12, 2008 4:10 PM

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Ryansi51 says ...

duly noted.

threesome?

Posted by Ryansi51 at November 12, 2008 4:17 PM

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agrayesq says ...

God bless all lesbians! May your mere existence make the evangelicals cringe and college coeds "experiment".

Posted by agrayesq at November 12, 2008 4:59 PM

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p.Vice says ...

The over/under is 3 on how many times Jeff will use the word "ride" to describe Quantam of Solace after his screening gets out.

Posted by p.Vice at November 12, 2008 5:23 PM

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BurmaShave says ...

But will it be a mezzo-mezzo ride?

Posted by BurmaShave at November 12, 2008 6:01 PM

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MilkMan says ...

Are there any explosions in it? Because actionman wants me to buy advance tickets. He said anything less that five explosions and he's going to have to decline, which would really suck, because we were going to get together, see a movie, and discuss the time he blew my girlfriend after he crapped in my bowl of shredded wheat, which , actually, kind of tasted good. I, for one, am really looking forward to seeing Vikar Schrader's latest film. I hope it's as good as Blue Collar or Hardcore, both of which, FYI, had absolutely no explosions in them.

Posted by MilkMan at November 12, 2008 6:05 PM

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MilkMan says ...

Fuck, typo. Watch out. Now he's really got something to hold over me. Misspelling a word is like a negative explosion in actionman's world. For every misspelled word, one explosion ceases to exist somewhere in the universe of cinema. I think Universal Soldier just got a little less fun. Sorry.

Posted by MilkMan at November 12, 2008 6:08 PM

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Luke Y. Thompson says ...

If Adam Resurrected is a whole movie of Jeff Goldblum going into full-on Goldblum mode for the entire running time, I'll go see it no matter what it's about. If he does a foreign accent, even better.

Posted by Luke Y. Thompson at November 12, 2008 6:20 PM

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The Bandsaw Vigilante says ...

"I think Universal Soldier just got a little less fun. Sorry."

Not for me. I mean, you've still got Lundgren at perhaps the very HEIGHT of his prowess and career, doing monologues in a supermarket that would make Lee Strasberg weep.

Posted by The Bandsaw Vigilante at November 12, 2008 6:20 PM

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The Bandsaw Vigilante says ...

Also, am I the only one who'd pay big money to see Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox in a hot, totally impromptu, live, on-air tonguing session?

Posted by The Bandsaw Vigilante at November 12, 2008 6:24 PM

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D.Z. says ...

http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2009/0-9ABC/2012/trailer.php

Posted by D.Z. at November 12, 2008 8:05 PM

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BurmaShave says ...

Jesus Christ, the Roland Emmerich money shot has hooked me again. Totally unexpected and actually terrifying. I guess I'll be furthering his mediocrity with my hard-earned dollars once more.

Posted by BurmaShave at November 12, 2008 8:44 PM

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KC says ...

Bandsaw Vigilante, you disgust me and the only way I know how to strike back is by laying down the fact that I would definitely outbid you to see Olbermann licking Nate Silver's tonsils

Posted by KC at November 12, 2008 11:58 PM

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