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Jake Squared (2013)
10/10
This movie is brilliant.
13 July 2014
I've never written a review for a movie before though I have worked in the movie business for a long time! I saw this movie at the Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles.

Here's what I think:

You will be given countless opportunities to see movies about perfect people (portraying underdogs) saving a town/country/world/universe BUT very few chances to see a movie that teaches you something interesting and new about the human condition. This movie succeeds in illuminating the human condition, especially aging men looking for love. I have had daydreams similar to several scenes in this movie, but could not articulate them like Howard Goldberg does. The movie is very "meta"; it's self-reflexive and self-deprecating. Elias Koteas plays four different ages of himself and they talk to each other (along with other actors playing his character). Some of his acting and Goldberg's writing reminded me of conversations I've had with myself, and at other times it reminded me of things I've talked to my father about. To me there are very few movies that really discuss what it's like to be a man. Not a macho man, or a sex crazed man, but just a man, warts and all. This movie really shows it, the loneliness, the need for love, the second guessing, and a lot more. It still funny, and wonderfully acted, and stressful. I never knew what was coming, because of its originality.

I don't want to give away too much, just go see it.
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Frank's Cock (1994)
9/10
Worth finding.
15 January 2013
I saw this movie in film school in 1995, and I'm still thinking about it. It stuck with me that long. I wish I could see it again, but my guess is because of the copy written images and audio contained in the piece it will never show up on youtube, the interwebs, or a compilation of short films.

The power of this film is in Callum Keith Rennie's performance and the efforts of the filmmaker to find images to further strengthen the monologue.
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