January 25, 2007

Sundance. Slipstream.

Slipstream "Apparently needing to release some private thoughts, musings and images to the world, Anthony Hopkins takes a leap into stunning self-indulgence with his directorial debut, Slipstream," announces Robert Koehler in Variety. "What can either be viewed as one huge home movie or a plaything from an actor who has been observing other filmmakers for decades, pic strains to convey the interior emotions and ruptures of a vet screenwriter on deadline, and the obnoxious film crew and cast that keeps intruding into his universe.... If, among actors-turned-filmmakers, Clint Eastwood stands on one pole of classical restraint, Hopkins certainly stands on its opposite."

"In this poor man's Inland Empire, the veteran actor and first-time filmmaker condenses a lifetime's worth of mental doodles into one flatulent anti-industry tirade," writes Dennis Lim for indieWIRE. "The promise in the program note that the audience will start 'questioning the limits of the human brain' proves all too accurate."

"The editing is absolutely squirrel-fucking insane," notes Quint at AICN. "At the Q&A afterwards, Hopkins said that he views the whole thing with a great sense of humor.... I'm still personally trying to figure out just what the hell Slipstream is."

John Horn talks with Hopkins for the Los Angeles Times.

Coverage of the coverage: The Park City Index.



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Posted by dwhudson at January 25, 2007 1:43 AM

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Hopkins is not a first-time filmmaker. He's credited as director of AUGUST, an adaptation of Chekov's "Uncle Vanya" from 1996.

Posted by: Dan Slevin at January 25, 2007 4:15 AM