Color Me Kubrick2007
Color Me Kubrick (2007)
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Critic Consensus: Colour Me Kubrick has a fascinating premise, but provides little insight into Kubrick and the man who impersonated him.
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Cast
as Alan Conway
as Charles
as Waiter
as Denzil
as Ace
as Mrs. Vitali
as Trolley Lady
as Aristocratic guest
as Alix Rich
as Madam
as Cyril
as Hex Mortimer
as Club Announcer
as TV Journalist 1
as TV Journalist 2
as TV Journalist 3
as Waldegrave
as Young guy
as Police Duty Sgt.
as PC Metcalf
as Lee Pratt
as Duane
as Dr. Stukeley
as Sean
as DJ in nightclub
as Maitre D'
as Melvyn
as Andros
as Adibe
as Oliver
as Ned Bridges
as Maureen
as Deepak
as Mordecai
as Police Officer
as Willie
as Jasper
as Man at Bar
as Butch Roberts
as Frank Rich
as Lord Charles Benson
as Rupert Rodnight
as Lolita
as Mental Patient 1
as Mental Patient 2
as Freddie
as Robert
as Toby
as Norman
as Nightgown Man
as Steve
as Valerie
as David
as Piers
as Spencer
as Hud
as Darren
as Policeman
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Critic Reviews for Color Me Kubrick
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Malkovich captures not only the nuttiness of Conway, with his smorgasbord of foreign-sounding accents, but also his pathos.
Not only is there nothing there, the nothingness is a complete bore. When a film's highpoint is a soundtrack that relies heavily on other soundtracks, you've got problems.
The irony of Color Me Kubrick is that the visual tricks merely serve as a backdrop for Malkovich's inspired high-wire performance.
A little bit like a coloring book -- flip the pages and each is pretty much like the one before, escalating variations on the same scam, with Malkovich filling in the cartoonish shadings, and occasionally going way outside the lines.
At best a kitschy Catch Me If You Can and at worst a tedious comedy.
It's an impressive moving wax museum, certainly, but even metatextual follies eventually need a pulse.
Audience Reviews for Color Me Kubrick
A True...ish Story. It's pretty terrible. Kubric been one of the most crazy weird directors of all-time could possibly be insulted rocking on his grave because of this crap of a so called movie. If your fan of John Malkovich see it but just as fan because the plot is just ridiculous. In London in the 1990s, a balding alcoholic with an unsteady American accent introduces himself in pubs and other social settings as Stanley Kubrick. Drinks and meals are suddenly on the house or paid for by an admiring person, usually a man, whose costumes, band, acting abilities or what have you, Stanley finds fascinating. He's actually Alan Conway (1934-1998): we watch him parlay a self-confident manner and a small amount of movie knowledge into a persona whom others immediately hang their dreams on. In exchange, Stanley asks only that they pay the bill. Will he be exposed? Do prosecution and prison await? Or has the National Health something else in mind?
Super Reviewer
I expected to love this movie. One of my favorite actors, John Malkovich playing a Stanley Kubrick imposter. How can it go wrong? Well, it did. Boring unfunny garbage. Basically the same thing would happen over and over. He would meet a new person, say he was Kubrick and then they would find out he was a conman after being duped for a few days. The only good thing about this movie was the showcase of all Kubricks classic music scores.
Super Reviewer
Con-man stories always hold some interest for me, even if they fail to truly go into detail about the protagonist or their victims. Color Me Kubrick is more of an interesting idea than a complete story. Alan Conway pretended to be Stanley Kubrick, despite knowing little about his work, or looking anything like him. He deceived people in order to receive free meals/gifts and the popularity. The film shows a number of these cons, which aren't plotted out, he just says he is Stanley Kubrick and people believe him. The film does a good job at showing the naivety of those tricked. Only one man even attempts to catch Conway out. The film may hold some fascination for UK viewers, just to see Jim Davidson in a rather well played role. It does manage to be funny, but often puts the emotional focus where it shouldn't be.
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