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NameMin. Sv% GA Avg. Demski, D 744 .857 0.81 Pures, Pe 633 .870 0.99 Harrington, B 560 .875 1.00 Orpen, Pr 592 .886 1.06 Milhollin, H 500 .887 1.12 Wright, Cor 557 .853 1.26 Kellman, Y 385 .889 2.55 OVERALL SCORING...
...Mikes Don't Make a Wright...
directed by Mike Leigh, Michael Moore, and Steven Wright...
From New York to smalltown Michigan to the English countryside, the three deadpan artists whose short films are featured in the Harvard Film Archive series Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright seem to be able to laugh at anything. If there is one feature that unites the shorts, it is a strange mixture of comedy and horror that reaches its crescendo in the final film. Two Mikes starts dark, turns black and gets blacker...
...title doesn't lie. Of the three shorts by contemporary filmmakers Steven Wright, Michael Moore, and Mike Leigh, Wright's hilarious and characteristically minimalist masterpiece, "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings," is the most gripping, especially for a viewer unexperienced in Two Mikes's unique brand of comedy. The angst-ridden "Appointments" combines the neurotic charm of a Woody Allen movie with the structured morbidity of an Edgar Allan Poe story. Even for those who have only seen him do stand-up on Letterman, the opening close-up shot of Steven Wright's head is a sight unmistakable...