Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story

I've got some other reviews to come, but I'll start you off with the best of the recent bunch:

Alan Conway (John Malkovich) is not who you think he is. He is in fact Stanley Kubrick, or so he'd have you believe. As the title suggests, this is in fact a "true...ish" story. During the 1990s, several years after Kubrick had made his most recent work, "Full Metal Jacket," a British man named Alan Conway claimed to be the reclusive director in order to mingle and dine with high society. Conway looked absolutely nothing like Kubrick and didn't really know very much about the man, however the ruse lasted for quite a long time.
Writer Anthony Frewin (a long time assistant to the real Kubrick) and director Brian W. Cook create a film that satirizes the cultural obsession with celebrity, not only by examining Conway, but also the people who were so eagerly taken in by him. Loaded with references to Kubrick's films (some very subtle, others not), "Colour Me Kubrick" (the opening titles use the "u" so that's how I'll spell it) occasionally causes fits of laughter and keeps a smile on your face from first frame to last. Malkovich is incredible as the man who would be Kubrick, providing a different Kubrick voice for each of his victims. It's a detail that's so strange that it must have been real. The way Malkovich plays Conway we see a man who was fast on his feet. At one point an excitable young victim asks him what his current project is. Driving past a pharmacy, Conway informs him it's titled "All Night Prescriptions" and that Madonna wants a role but that she ought to stick to her day job. "The sing-ging."
"Colour Me Kubrick" is a bizarre and wonderful movie. It also features Richard E. Grant in a small role, and we all know how I feel about Richard E. Grant!
Oddly, the film which was put out in limited release on Friday arrives on DVD today. It might explain why there were only three of us at the Varsity on Sunday evening.
9/10