30 day film challenge, #2

[jazzfish]

Clearly I'm not doing these one every day, but I am limiting myself to one per day.

Via shadowkat. The list.

2) A film you like that starts with the first letter of your name

Well. My legal name isn't Tucker, but then this isn't Tristram Shandy. I'm told the title is actually A Cock And Bull Story and it just got marketed in the US as Tristram Shandy, so.

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It's a weird movie. Very meta, very very dry. The trailer hooked me on the exchange "It was #8 on a list of the greatest novels of all time." "Yes, that list was chronological." "...Yeah." which is exactly the kind of thing that I love. It's just quietly bizarre, and shot through with enough streaks of humanity and character that it feels like it's about something, not just weird for weird's sake.

The director and lead actors did several seasons of a TV series called The Trip, which seems to have the same quality of "just turn the cameras on Steve and Rob and let them go." The first season was edited into a movie, which I did see, but I never saw the rest of it. Something to add to the list.

Comments

[sartorias]

Any film made from Tristram Shandy has to be really weird.

[jazzfish]

If it "helps" it's more a film about trying to make a film out of Tristram Shandy...

[sartorias]

That makes more sense than trying to pull a coherent story out of that mess, which doesn't even have an ending.

[delight]

When I saw it in theatres - in the US! - it was called Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.

[jazzfish]

Likewise (at least I /think/ I saw it in a theatre? The timing's just about right). But Wiki seems convinced that the proper name is just A Cock And Bull Story.