There are a bunch of interesting people interviewed here--including author Allan Gurganus, journalist Rosemary Bray, and historian John Kuo Wei Tchen--and they are interesting precisely because they're allowed to speak whole thoughts without being interrupted by a scene from The Wizard of Oz, an audio snippet of Bob Dylan singing, or a clip from a Star Trek episode. These voluminous audio-visual interruptions in Andrea Simon's scattered documentary are meant to be somehow illustrative of something about the American character but are really shorthand substitutes for serious conversation by and about Americans, which is purportedly the film's subject. To give you an idea of how superficial this exploration is, let me give you the main conclusion: we're diverse. To underscore the point, we are treated to umpteen montages of people saying "my mother was from Czechoslovakia, while my father's family came from Ireland," and a zillion variations of the same. This isn't conversation, it's verbal genealogy. An optional purchase. Aud: H, C, P. (R. Pitman)
Talk to Me: Americans in Conversation
(1996) 60 min. $99.95 ($295 w/PPR). Cinema Guild. Color cover. Vol. 12, Issue 2
Talk to Me: Americans in Conversation
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