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Criterion Collection: Schizopolis [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Steven Soderbergh (Actor), Scott Allen (Actor), Steven Soderbergh (Director) | Format: DVD
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Steven Soderbergh, Scott Allen, Betsy Brantley, Marcus Lyle Brown, Silas Cooper
  • Directors: Steven Soderbergh
  • Writers: Steven Soderbergh
  • Producers: John Hardy, John Lawrence Ré
  • Format: Anamorphic, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Criterion
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Oct 2003
  • Run Time: 96 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000BUZKS
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 112,831 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Both a kind of home movie and a salute to the hip, pop-up sketch comedy of 1960s/early 1970s television--Laugh-In, Monty Python's Flying Circus, that sort of thing--Schizopolis is a hit-and-miss series of gags with vaguely connecting threads of Kafkaesque paranoia. Soderbergh himself stars as two people--one an ineffective dentist and the other a speechwriter for a cult movement called Eventualism, which has set out to "question all answers"--connected by their romances with the same woman, played by Soderbergh's real-life ex, Betsy Bramley. There isn't so much a story as a series of bits in which these characters often (though not necessarily) turn up, from press conferences on the subject of horse urination to old footage of nudists to a scene of an Eventualist exchange between husband and wife: "Generic greeting!" "Generic greeting returned!" None of this leads to a literal point but after a while an undercurrent of disease about making sense of the modern world becomes apparent beneath the jokes. Soderbergh (sex, lies, and videotape, Out of Sight) is certainly a filmmaker who goes his own way in life, always hitting his target in one spot or another and occasionally getting a bull's-eye for his trouble. Schizopolis is no bull's-eye and it has just as many detractors as admirers but it's impossible not to appreciate Soderbergh's conviction that making a film out on the fringes is a worthy endeavour. --Tom Keogh

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" … off-the-cuff, off-the-wall nonsense … frequently very funny" -- Time Out

"… all attempts at synopsizing the film have ended in failure and hospitalization" -- Steven Soderberg

"… an experimental movie with the emphasis on mental" -- Total Film

"… bonkers …" -- Uncut

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous, warped, twisted & bizarre 30 Mar 2000
By carlsmith@animail.net
Format:VHS Tape
Nosearmy! Imagine a world as mundane as our own, but a world where people talk rubbish (because people do), pleasantaries are bland and automatically meaningless (because they are), the concept of chronology is lacking and nude men wearing credits are commonplace (but only if being restrained at a cost of $367).

Welcome to Schizopolis, Steven Soderbergh's one man band of a movie that owes as much to Blue Velvet as it does to Monty Python. Don't ask me what it's all about, as I haven't got a clue. I guess on a serious level it deals with isolation, the suppresion of how we'd like to behave (the letter Dr. Korchak writes to "attractive woman no. 2" is especially touching...), the fact that people talk but don't really communicate and that wastebaskets should play more easy listening music.

If you like your movies linear and to smack you in the face with plot development, then you'll find this pretty hard going, but Soderbergh's wonderful turn in front of the camera more than makes up for this, as he moves through the film with an air of child-like abandon and similar confusion. And anyway, if you don't get it, it's your fault and not his. You'll just have to watch it again and again until you understand.

Schizopolis -enjoy, puzzle and enjoy again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars nearly perfect 24 April 2010
By speaking pony
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
a film that is seemingly "aware" of its ephemeral nature as a piece of fiction, but that deals with touchstones such as infidelity, mortality, purpose, religion, madness, paranoia, mundanity, identity, family in a hugely silly offhand knockabout way that somehow doesn't rob the subjects at hand of their due gravitas.
the plot isn't linear (but it does have many amusing intricacies), the editing, performances and cinematography are playful, without being smug. not at all an impenetrable film as some would have you believe, and despite its jokey and sometimes sarcastic tone, it is not a film without heart or soul - i find it quite poignant, as it happens.
it looks good (to the eyes - visually impressive) - the soundtrack is a hoot.
apparently they haven't pressed any in a while. stupid move. excellent film.
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2 of 9 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Silly, silly, silly 5 May 2003
By A Customer
Format:DVD
This is not an easy film to describe. The plot is fairly irrelevant to the film as a whole, its main substance is surreal bizarreness and silly jokes. Most of the latter are weak and not particularly funny, with a few exceptions. When watching the film, the question "why am I sitting here?" begs itself repeatedly.
Those who like surreal films might enjoy this one, but I would not recommend it to anyone except those with the most broadminded and patient sense of humour.
The sound and picture reproduction is poor, but whether this is a fault of the DVD or the original (I suspect the latter) is an open question.
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