Anthony Hopkins, Stella Arroyave, Lana Antonova
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 26, 2008
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March 2, 2009As I write this segment at 59mins in, I can't decide if this film is brilliant or pretentious. Certainly the first third (and pretty much all) of the camera work that isn't a jump cut is pretentious (esp the color changes are not earned). And this second third I've just finished ...( read more)
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May 28, 2008It really is David Lynch meets Oliver Stone to redo Fellini. It's funny and it's weird, and only mildly difficult. If mildly difficult troubles you, stay away.
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April 1, 2008Kudos to Anthony Hopkins for trying something fifty times more creative and ambitious than any other actor-cum-director would, but this just didn't work for me. You can't pull off David Lynch unless you're actually David Lynch, and that's solely based on name recognition - half o...( read more)
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February 27, 2008Were I to watch this film not knowing anything about it, I'd have given it 2 stars for being obnoxiously confusing. But, knowing that it is an autobiographical interpretation of Anthony Hopkins' career and views of todays dying film art and overlap of media, I would give it 3 st...( read more)
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March 15, 2009Weird and messed up. It felt more artistic than trying to tell a story. It reminded me of a David Lynch movie.
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November 22, 2009I cannot desricbed this film, at all. I could tell you what happens, but I cannot descirbe, partially because it will ruin the beauty of how astounding it is, but mostly, words cannot do this thing justice. Athony Hopkins directs a very assured movie, and does not care to make it...( read more)
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October 11, 2009I dont even know what was going on maby I missed some thing I dont know but it was very bad, maby I was to high? If I should watch it again let me know!
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September 17, 2009Sir Anthony Hopkins is a true artist. He wrote, directed, composed and conducted this groundbreaking film, which explores the premise of a man who is caught in a slipstream of time and remembers his own future.
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September 2, 2009I am myself a big fan of surreal films and I found this film utterly confusing at best and nonsensical at worst. Even though the continuity in the story line was no where to be found, I found the film to be a visually pleasing delight. Anthony Hopkins is one intelligent man and t...( read more)
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July 1, 2009Unsure of what to rate this. Frequently annoying and overt and overdone. But some good moments in there. Kind of STRANGER THAN FICTION meets a less spooky JACOB'S LADDER.
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May 12, 2008No its no joke!! It is amazing!! You have to truly be watching to solve this chess game. I LOVE IT.
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November 14, 2007(I love the little comment on the board before someone posts: "This board appears to be lonely")
I don't know if others will post on here, but I do hope a lot of people get to see this movie. It's bizarre yes, but no more bizarre than anything David Lynch has done, and I would argue that "Slipstream" is much more linear. Is it for everbody? I guess the answer is no. However, I went into the film with all of the pre-release information of: "It's (Slipstream) is not meant to make any sense" and "I did it as a joke" and all of that, but I think it was just a bad marketing strategy to get people out to see it. The film makes so much more sense than a lot of other stream-of-conciousness films I've seen, in fact, this one has a purpose. So, I hope people watch it and take something away from it. Regardless, it made a great trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/slipstream/trailer/
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