See It 10/30

Taxidermia (2006)
Directed by: Gyorgy Palfi
Written by: Lajos Parti Nagy; Gyorgy Palfi, Zsofia Ruttkay
Starring: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trocsanyi, Piroska Molnar, Adel Stanczel, Marc Bischoff, Gabor Mate, Zoltan Koppany
This sick, vile, disgusting film tells the stories of three generations of men in Hungary. One a soldier in WWII who ejaculates fire, the next, his son, an overweight competitive eater born with a pig tail, and his son, a taxidermist who wants to stuff his own torso, who takes care of his massive elderly father and his obese cats. Not many films these days elicit sickness while watching, but this did it all right. Just bizarre, foul, and unpleasant but strikingly original, surreal and entertaining. A-



Being There (1979)
Directed by: Hal Ashby
Written by: Jerzy Kosinski
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway
Peter Sellers plays a middle aged gardener who had never stepped foot outside his employers home and received all impressions of the outside world through television. When his boss dies he leaves and eventually befriends a powerful and wealthy man, who thinks the gardeners simple, ignorant statement are genius, as do all the other important people around him, including the President. Sellers is fantastic in this. B+



Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Directed by: Woody Allen
Written by: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Richard Benjamin, Kirstie Alley, Hazelle Goodman, Billy Crystal, Judy Davis, Bob Balaban, Elisabeth Shue, Demi Moore, Robin Williams, Caroline Aaron, Eric Bogosian, Mariel Hemingway, Amy Irving, Julie Kavner, Eric Lloyd, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobey Maguire, Stanley Tucci
Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' on a joint rolled with weed and laced with crack, chased down by a whiskey and acid chaser. Woody Allen plays a writer who is invited to receive an honor at his old alma mater. He reminisces about his multiple marriages and affairs, and the books he wrote fictionalizing his life, while making the trip with his young son, who he kidnapped from his ex-wife, a black hooker and a dying friend. A large, talented cast play the real life characters and their fictionalized counterparts. Of the large cast, Kirstie Alley is the standout. A-