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I, Curmudgeon

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NR,1hr 34min
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January 1, 2003
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Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Alan Zweig, himself an admitted curmudgeon, devotes this talking-head documentary primarily to interviews with other curmudgeons with a similar sensibility. The movie consists largely of talking-head interviews with a variety of men and women, spanning several generations, who have the sourly cynical, intellectual view of the world that qualifies them as fellow curmudgeons. Some of the interviewees are renowned in various fields (author Fran Lebowitz, autobiographical comic strip ... Full Synopsis
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Like Alan Zweig's previous documentary Vinyl, I, Curmudgeon isn't a terribly impressive piece of filmmaking on a technical or compositional level. However, like Vinyl, it entertainingly taps into a vein of popular culture often discussed by people with alternative/alienated sensibilities, but rarely covered in film (or anywhere in the mainstream media, for that matter). The movie is dominated by straightforward ... Full Review
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