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DVD Bartleby
Cult figure Crispin Glover lends his eerie presence to Bartleby, a modern adaptation of the classic short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville (author of Moby Dick). The unnamed manager of a public records firm (David Paymer), after receiving a commission from the city government, hires a new clerk--an inarticulate man named Bartleby (Glover), who proves to be an efficient filer. But gradually, Bartleby begins to withdraw from the world, first refusing to do additional tasks, then finally refusing to do any work at all--yet due to Bartleby's utterly passive means of refusal (he simply says, "I would prefer not to"), the manager feels incapable of firing him. The movie inconsistently captures the subtle tone of Melville's story, but at its best Bartleby becomes quietly mesmerizing and unsettling. Also featuring Glenne Headley, Seymour Cassel, Maury Chaykin, and Joe Piscopo. --Bret Fetzer
Melville's sometimes disturbing and creepy text gets a fine rendition, overall, in this 2000 Jonathan Parker adaptation. Crispin Glover is remarkable as Bartelby, and Glenne Headly is a fine boss.
Some of the other characterizations, however, don't work quite as well. Neither does the dialog that isn't from Melville. But don't let the unevenness of the movie put you off. It is the kind thing that folks who like this kind of thing would prefer. Or not.
Decent film
This is a decent film, I'm not that familiar with the original story but it's still good. The thing I liked most about it is that Bartleby's attitude is basically everybody's when it comes to work. Your boss tells or ask you to do something and most of the time if not all of the time you would prefer not too. Anyways, this is worth checking out, good acting and good story
Odd and nervy. I loved it!
I'LL KEEP THIS REVIEW SHORT AND SIMPLE. Bartleby has become one of my most favorite indie films to date. It's so bizzare and different, it truely stands out from any movie I've ever seen. I used to work in an office like this and its painfully realistic in my opininon. Granted, the characters in this movie are exaggerated for entertainment purposes but I can totally recall past co-workers in this film. This movie is bound to become a cult classic. If you enjoy dark and oddball comedies, this movie has your name all over it.
The cheesy television drama music score doesn't do wonders, to a mostly wonderful adaptation of Melville's story. The only other drawback is that the moviemakers didn't have the guts to develop the two supporting co-worker characters, who were perhaps the most memorable part of that story. Melville was tremendous at developing lesser characters the same way Shakespeare paid attention to such details. But the two main characters, Bartleby and his boss, are marvelously portrayed. They really hit the nail on the head and didn't change their characters from the story at all. Those two characters and the actors who play them make this movie very much worthwhile. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Anthony Friedman DVD Release Date: Released the 17 June 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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This disturbing little film is even more unsettling when you think about the fact that it's based on an actual case. Troubled teen Samson murders his girlfriend Jamie for no particular reason, leaves her nude body by the river's edge, then brings his friends to see the corpse to prove he did it. They look at her, prod her, and talk about her, but no one seems to manage to feel anything. River's Edge is ultimately a study of kids who are so numbed by drugs, casual parenting, and the ever present threat of nuclear war that not even death can get a rise out of them. A young Keanu Reeves is surprisingly poised as Matt, the one character with a few shreds of empathy left. His quiet performance is powerful enough to hold the audience's interest even with Crispin Glover and Dennis Hopper... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Crispin Glover - Keanu Reeves Director(s): Tim Hunter DVD Release Date: Released the 23 January 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. He pushes the limits of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Joseph Cotten - Orson Welles Director(s): Orson Welles DVD Release Date: Released the 25 September 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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