Colour Me Kubrick: A True...Ish Story
2005
*½
Director: Brian Cook
Cast: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Terence Rigby, Marisa Berenson
While Stanley Kubrick was preparing Eyes Wide Shut, an alcoholic gay conman Alan Conway went around claiming to be the famed director, although he looked nothing like him. This dull comedy is loosely based on fact and it implies that people believe anything if it allows them to hang out with a celebrity. John Malkovich totally hams it in the lead, and it's hard to fathom how a man with such an unreliable and untraceable accent and outrageous wardrobe would fool anyone. This footnote of history would make an amusing YouTube video, but 85 minutes seems an incredibly long time when it just repeats the same comedy routine over and over again. Director Cook and screenwriter Anthony Frewin both worked with Kubrick, and they make some references to his films on the screen and on the soundtrack.
