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João MC Palhares
12Mar12
"Film, baby, powerful tool for love or laughter, fantastic weapon to create violence or ward it off, is in your hands. The only possible chance you've got in our round thing is not to bitch about injustice or break windows, but to make a concerted effort to have a loud voice. The loudest voice known to man is on thousand-foot reels. Campus chants about war are not going to help two peasants in a rice paddy on Tuesday. However, something might be said on emulsion that will stop a soldier from firing into nine children somewhere, sometime. Now; next year; five years from now. Try emulsion instead of rocks for race relations and ecology. That, and love and laughter, has to be what it's all about. Then you'll survive. Maybe we'll all survive. Maybe."
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Tony Smith
13Jan12
His voice makes me want to jump off of a building with a rope around my neck. Ergh.
chris naughton
28Jul10
The only filmmaker I can think of who can edit funny. The style of the cut is the means of the punchline, not only the performance.Comedic filmmaking, man. Rarely pursued, even more rare to accomplish. To make my point I am thinking of the tennis scene in Big Mouth and much of the great Bellboy, and many scenes in Ladies Man and Family Jewels (airplane scene). Lewis a genius - yea thats a given.
quinton
18Jul10
Part of why I love him so much is because I would be slapped for admitting it in public. He is a better filmmaker than he is a comedian. But he's still a highly influential and smart comedian. All of his films are experimental in someway. Usually reaching the level of live-action surrealist cartoon. But what I love the most about him is how his films really reveal so much about his bruised psyche. He uses film as therapy and the entertainment is secondary.
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