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Sleepwalk with Me


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🎙️ EPISODE 300: 01.24.2021 *Review starts @ ~ 3:06:40

This film definitely has that labor-of-love feeling and because the material has been incubating for so long and via so many different platforms (writer, director and star Mike Birbiglia’s standup and even a book), the end result is a thoroughly developed, personal narrative that we rarely get to see: from comedy routine > one-man show > radio monologue > essay book/memoir > narrative-driven fiction film. I think this is stuff is worth pointing out. I personally could never imagine focusing this much energy on a single creative project, which–oh by the way–just happens to be a close re-imagining of events from your actual life. On the deepest of levels, this fear of self-discovery, I suppose, is one of the reasons I found the film so powerful. I don't want to look at any portion of my life this closely for five seconds, let alone for over five years. An interesting perspective is gained; one that's simultaneously as hyperreal as fiction can get, yet also as dramatically/thematically orchestrated as any true story wrung through this much iteration could ever possibly achieve.


*** part of THE BIG EPISODE 300 EXTRAVAGANZA wherein I reviewed 36 movies, mostly live reads of critiques I wrote between 2009-2012. The finished product above is a highly edited version of the truly embarrassing one that was read during the five-hour podcast recording. I guess this is growing up. ***

THE 36 MOVIES REVIEWED DURING EPISODE 300
30 MINUTES OR LESSALEX BAG: UNTITLED FALL '95AWAY WE GOBEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILDBEING ELMOBORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILMTHE BROTHERS SOLOMONA BUCKET OF BLOOD
THE CAMPAIGNTHE CENTER OF THE WORLDCHRISTMAS ON MARSTHE CHRISTMAS TREE • CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. • (500) DAYS OF SUMMERA FIELD IN ENGLANDFUNNY PEOPLEGET HIM TO THE GREEKGIGANTIC (A TALE OF TWO JOHNS) • INCEPTIONJEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOMELEAVE NO TRACEMAN ON WIREMIDNIGHT IN PARISMONEYBALLMOONMUTUAL APPRECIATIONPOM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLDRISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APESSLEEPWALK WITH ME • SOME DRINKING IMPLIEDTIM AND ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIETRANSITTO ROME WITH LOVETHE WICKER MANWINTER'S BONEYOUTH IN REVOLT


CHRONOLOGICALLY
EPISODE 300U - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 300X ⫸

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