Correction to Crispin Glover appearance at the Plaza Theatre
Plaza Theatre co-owner Jonathan Rej informed us they goofed on the Crispin Glover appearance at the venerable theater on Aug. 29-30, as we reported last week in Fresh Loaf. Glover will appear to promote his writing/directing debut, What Is It?, and not that other movie (which he as credited as a co-director, but neveryoumind). Here’s the plot synopsis for What Is It?:
Known for creating many memorable, incredibly quirky characters onscreen as an actor, Glover’s first effort as a director will not disappoint fans of his offbeat sensibilities and eccentric taste. Featuring a cast largely comprised of actors with Down’s Syndrome, the film is not about Down’s Syndrome. Glover describes it as “Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are snails, salt, a pipe and how to get home as tormented by an hubristic racist inner psyche.” In addition to writing and directing What Is It?, Glover also appears in the film as an actor in the role of “Dueling Demi-God Auteur and the young man’s inner psyche.” Actress Fairuza Balk voices one of the snails..
We would expect nothing less from Crispin, who is pretty much God. Critics were split over this 2006 release; though I have yet to see the movie, I couldn’t help but chuckle how two different alt-weekly film critics (who also were split over the movie) both referenced David Lynch in their respective reviews. The Chicago Reader’s Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote, “Glover, who appears in the film as a kind of barbarian dictator-auteur, lacks both the self-imposed ideological innocence and the talent for composing sounds and images of David Lynch,” while LA Weekly’s Scott Foundas wrote, “It’s clear that Glover is less interested in narrative than in rekindling a rich midnight-movie/avant-garde tradition that encompasses everything from Maya Deren and Jack Smith to Alejandro Jodorowsky and David Lynch.”
Hey, even bad David Lynch sounds interesting to me. Here’s Crispin talking about his film, Werner Herzog and more …