Reviews
Land of Look Behind (1982)
A masterful visionary epic unique in film history
This is a feature length documentary with trail-blazing poetic/dramatic cinematic technique. Unforgettable images and startling intimacy with the subject. An undiscovered masterpiece.
Patch Adams (1998)
Insult to anyone with an honest, mature sense of life
Using filming-by-numbers formula and screenwriting trickery, viewers are expected to embrace a brilliant man depicted as a deeply disturbed med student with an irrepressible Ha-Ha Complex, who feels compelled to sanctimoniously violate dying patients' dignity and sacred space with the justification that laughter brought on by slapstick and clownish humor takes their woeful minds off their afflictions--much like prescribed drugs do, much less indiscriminately, without the potential for sudden cardiac arrest or asphyxiation. Realistically, in several of the scenes depicting Adams heroically for rousing entire wards to laughter, a good percentage of the patients in the scene would suffer in the long run because of the excitement, while some might actually die. This is a film that makes fools of its viewers.
Land of Look Behind (1982)
A masterful visionary epic unique in film history
This is a feature length documentary with trail-blazing poetic/dramatic cinematic technique. Unforgettable images and startling intimacy with the subject. An undiscovered masterpiece.