Tuesday
Nov302010
82 - Lets Delve Into the Pre-Post-Modernism of Tristram Shandy
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 10:37PM Take a seat and we'll tell you a tale of one of the most divisive movies ever made.
In a delightfully self-aware manner, 'Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story' is a mockumentary about a rag-tag group of indie film makers attempting to adapt a book which everyone around them claims is unadaptable.
You'll either love it, or hate it, but we loved it, so you have to at least watch our review of it.
So there.
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tagged adaptation, comedy, mockumentary in Episode
adaptation, comedy, mockumentary in Episode
Reader Comments (8)
It is my most seriously considered opinion that the team of Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan and Rob Bryden CAN DO NO WRONG. This is one of my favorite films of this young century. I'm still stunned at how it managed to combine a weird degree of faithfulness to the novel with the awesome mockumentary/behind the scenes elements AND a completely bogus Steve Coogan back story to boot. Do read the book if you haven't - it was centuries before its time, I assure you!
Agreed! I really need to read this book then watch the film again. Also need to re-vist Winterbottom's catalog...
Great review, guys. I really appreciate your output, top notch stuff! :) I was wondering whether you guys know about a UK TV show called "The Trip", featuring Coogan, Brydon and directed by Wnterbottom. If you enjoyed this movie, then I think you'll enjoy the show (although there are a few very British references). Lots of reviewers slated it for being overly self-indulgent but I found it hilarious (in a wanky-post-modern way(!)). It just finished its run on BBC2 in the UK. Also, I have a few requests (take 'em or leave 'em): "The Idiots" (Trier, 1998), "Dancer in the Dark" (Trier, 2000), "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (Mankiewicz, 1947). As you can perhaps tell, I like Trier!!!
P.S. Thanks for giving me an excuse to buy the DVD. I've rented it so many times I really ought to just own it 8) Hey, I'm supporting the MYHM guys!
Hey Kesserb,
We actually found this film BECAUSE of The Trip.
We're hungry for more...
Man.
You're trying to kill us with Von Trier there. We JUST got off of a one year moratorium on Trier films, and returned with Dogville. Might be a bit before we cover him again...
OK...I'll let you guys off the Trier for now!
Just out of interest, when did you get "The Trip" in the States? I have a slightly geeky obsession with UK-American TV comedy import-exports (!).
Trier again? Again? Once is too much. Remember that girl in Tristram Shandy who Steve Coogan has the hots for that is into Fassbinder? She's onto something. Fassbinder. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Lovely. And bitter, appropriately.
I second John's excellent suggestion. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant needs to be on your list, fellas!