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Double Take

Johan Grimonprez 2009

Categories: New Frontier Films

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Run time: 80 min. | Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands | color

The best art imitates life, but at a slant. Johan Grimonprez adroitly proves this in his highly original film, which locates and develops thematic conjunctions between escapist entertainment and real-life horror; more specifically, between the work and images of legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock and the escalation of the cold war in the 1960s. Appropriating and reprocessing film and television images of Hitchcock, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Nikita Khruschev, and others, Grimonprez expands droll generalizations about doppelgangers, guilt, and paranoia into a full-blown analysis of global politics, fear of the bomb, and the mad rush to mutually assured destruction. As public anxieties are sublimated in popular entertainment, so do they sometimes erupt in artistic expressions (such as Hitchcock’s The Birds). In addition to pinpointing the postmodern, movielike unreality of public life, Grimonprez convincingly indicates the precision with which an artist may sketch the public psyche in entertainment, and why Hitchcock still haunts our dreams.

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time	event code	venue	calendar
9:00 AM Fri, Jan 22	DOUBL22EM screens with... Voice on the Line \| Kelly Sears 2009	Egyptian Theatre	+ add to cal
3:00 PM Sat, Jan 23	DOUBL23BA screens with... Voice on the Line \| Kelly Sears 2009	Broadway Centre Cinemas VI	+ add to cal
12:00 PM Sun, Jan 24	DOUBL24YD screens with... Voice on the Line \| Kelly Sears 2009	Yarrow Hotel Theatre	+ add to cal
12:30 PM Sat, Jan 30	DOUBL30ED screens with... Voice on the Line \| Kelly Sears 2009	Egyptian Theatre	+ add to cal

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director	Johan Grimonprez

screenwriter	Johan Grimonprez, based on a story by Tom McCarthy, inspired by the essay “25 August, 1983,” by Jorge Luis Borges
Cast	Ron Burrage, Mark Perry
producer	Zap-o-Matik, Emmy Oost, Johan Grimonprez
editor	Dieter Diependaele, Tyler Hubby
music	Christian Halten
sound	Ranko Paukovic
coproducers	Nikovantastic Film, Hanneke van der Tas, Nicole Gerhards, Volya Films, Denis Vaslin

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Rated 3.0/5 Stars my rating click to rate 1 2 3 4 5 mike.foster 6:40 PM		Amazing use of archival footage and editing. Clever, but lost my attention. A political allegory that was too long. Could have made the same point in about half the time.