A master comedian, a keen observer of neuroses, a deft political satirist, a fantastic filmmaker. Here is every Albert Brooks movie, ranked:
“A comedic tornado,” “the first alternative comic” and “one of the most original thinkers that we’ve ever seen” is how Steven Spielberg, Jon Stewart and Chris Rock describe Albert Brooks in Rob Reiner’s recent documentary.
This aura of “next big thing” that was surrounding Brooks by the mid-to-late 1970s was so stratospheric that he was approached by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol with their idea for, a weekly variety program that would air on NBC on Saturday nights with Brooks as the regular host. Instead, Brooks suggested they should have rotating hosts, essentially inventing the format that would become.
Initially set up with Sony Pictures, the studio balked at Brooks’ insistence on having the word “Muslim” in the title, instead desiring to call it simply. A total affront to the entire point of the project, Brooks moved the film over to Warner Independent Pictures, who quietly premiered it at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2005, three months after theDanish cartoons controversy.
Yet, Stone is a showstopper as the seductive and at times infuriating title character, with the story picking up steam as she becomes friendly with Phillips’ wife, played by a delightful Andie MacDowell. Initially resistant to the idea of the muse’s involvement, and her husband’s devotion to this new woman, MacDowell’s character is fully on board when the muse suddenly helps her launch a successful new cookie business. It’s a welcome deviation as the initial plot becomes a bit stale.
These narcissistic yuppies thinking that they’re actually doing something bold is an amusing critique of the privileged upper class fetishization of the “freedom” of being broke—taking down the people who still put living out on their own, outside of the society that they idolized, on a pedestal. But what takesto the next level occurs in their first stop on the road.
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