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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0876964000789
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Magnolia
Manufacturer: Magnolia
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Magnolia
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 56007
Studio: Magnolia
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
John Malkovich gives a hilarious tour-de-force as Alan Conway a conman who successfully passed himself off as the famed and notoriously reclusive director Stanley Kubrick for the last decade of the filmmaker's life despite knowing very little about Kubrick. It'd be a farce of the highest order if it weren't based on a true story.System Requirements:Run Time: 87 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 876964000789 Manufacturer No: 10078
Amazon.com:
Color Me Kubrick tells the slyly amusing and 'true-ish' story about a brazen impostor who pretended to be one of the world's greatest filmmakers. As British comedies go it's a bit of a trifle, but constantly enjoyable for cinephiles devoted to Stanley Kubrick and his films. In a foppishly flamboyant performance, John Malkovich dons a fab-ulously colorful wardrobe and uses a comical variety of voices as Alan Conway, an eccentrically gay outcast who spent most of the 1990s convincing his gullible targets that he was Stanley Kubrick, despite bearing no resemblance to the real Kubrick and knowing next to nothing about the director's celebrated films. Preying (with startling success) upon their ignorance and their fawning desire to seek favors from this 'legendary filmmaker,' Conway conned his mostly gay victims into giving him money, sex, and other kinds of ill-earned appreciation, and Color Me Kubrick (completed two years before its simultaneous release to theaters and DVD) does a terrific job of showing how Conway managed to maintain this charade for nearly a decade before he was 'outed' by New York Times columnist Frank Rich, whose own encounter with Conway would eventually lead to the faux-Kubrick's undoing.
It's pretty slight stuff, as comedies go, but it boasts plenty of authority behind the camera: Both director Brian Cook and screenwriter Anthony Frewin were close associates of Kubrick's for decades, and they have terrific fun by peppering their film with a variety of Kubrickian in-jokes, from the frequent use of music featured in Kubrick's own films to a variety of visual in-jokes that Kubrick worshippers will instantly recognize. Add to this Malkovich's crazily unhindered performance, and you've got a nice little cult comedy that will keep you laughing if you're in the right mood. Keep your eyes wide open for cameo appearances by Marisa Berenson (who appeared in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon), Peter Sallis (the voice of Wallace in the Wallace and Gromit films), and director Ken Russell, among others. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Color me bored
Although it pains me to say it, I sometimes wonder, especially after seeing a film like "Color Me Kubrick," if the Malkovich legend doesn't outstrip the Malkovich talent. He was superb, for example, in the too little known "Klimt" and pretty good in the Hollywood tear-jerker "Dangerous Liasons." But his performance in "Being John Malkovich," an excellent film with some excellent acting by Catherine Keener and Cameron Diaz, was mixed. In "Color Me Kubrick," it's so bad that, to give Malkovich the ... Read More
Rating: - Hammy Malkovich, disappointing conclusion but this is fun for Kubrick fans
John Malkovich hams it up shamefully as conman Alan Conway who impersonated Stanley Kubrick for years despite being openly gay and looking nothing like him! The film pokes fun at celebrity and has continuous references to many of Kubrick's films. It fun for the first two thirds but then peters out to an unsatisfying conclusion. Kubrick fans will probably enjoy it most.
Rating:  - A "Tru-ish" Story
"Color Me Kubrick"
A "Tru-ish" Story
Amos Lassen
There are very few people who are not aware of who Stanley Kubrick was. His death left a void in fimmaking and those of us that have seen "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" are not likely to ever forget them.
The film "Color Me Kubrick" is based on a true event which occurred in the 1990's when Kubrick was filming "Eyes Wide Shut", his last film. It stars John Malkovich as flamboyant gay male ... Read More
Rating: - Color Me Lavender
I finally ordered this DVD at the urging of a friend and ardent movie buff. I'm glad I took his advice. Directed by Brian Cook, "Color Me Kubrick" stars John Malkovich as a real-live con-artist whose real name is Alan Conway. As gay as pink lemonade, Conway-- aptly named-- "cons" a lot of people into giving him money and expensive gifts by posing as the reclusive film director Stanley Kubrick. The movie belongs to Malkovich for his camp over-the-top performance that delights the viewer for 90 minutes ... Read More
Rating: - Oddly entertaining
Liked this more than I expected to. Watched it only due to Malkovich, who I think is hilarious and vastly underrated as a comic actor. Everything he does is funny to me, even when he's being serious. His wacked-out vibe fits perfectly here, and this becomes an alternately disturbing and funny tale of obsession and gullibility.
That the story is true only highlights how pathetically obsessed our culture is with fame and celebrity, and how shallow we can be.
I rarely felt sorry for anyone in ... Read More
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