{"id":4818,"date":"2012-05-03T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2014-05-26T23:42:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T03:42:39","slug":"film-francophrenia-or-dont-kill-me-i-know-where-the-baby-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4818","title":{"rendered":"Film: Francophrenia (Or Don&#8217;t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Return to: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\">Home <\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=6\">Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews<\/a> \/ <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=617\">F<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/BLANK.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4495\" title=\"BLANK\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/BLANK.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Film: Weak\/ DVD Transfer: n\/a\/ DVD Extras: n\/a<\/p>\n<p>Label: n\/a\/ Region: n\/a\u00a0\/\u00a0Released: n\/a<\/p>\n<p>Genre: Mockumentary \/ Found Footage<\/p>\n<p>Synopsis: Experimental documentary on actor James Franco&#8217;s guest stint on the daytime soap opera &#8220;General Hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Special Features: n\/a<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Review:<\/p>\n<p>Award-winning filmmaker Ian Olds (<strong>Occupation: Dreamland<\/strong>)  takes the found film genre further by recutting footage shot by actor James  Franco during the taping of his appearance on the daytime soap <strong>General  Hospital <\/strong>into an absurd looped and layered examination of an actor  theorizing about personal and professional parallels.<\/p>\n<p>In the GH episode, James Franco plays \u201cFranco,\u201d a murderous artist who  becomes one of his own media creations, but Olds was stuck with 3-camera  behind-the-scenes footage that captures the mundane procedures of taping a TV  series, and little else. As a short 10 minute film,  <strong>Francophrenia<\/strong> would\u2019ve worked as some angular meditation on  fame and pop culture idolatry, but there are only so many editing tricks and  Adobe plugins one can use to spice things up, and in spite of the theoretical  concepts Olds tried to apply, at 70 mins. it\u2019s too much of a personal editing  challenge, and unbearably dull.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2012 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>External References<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2172891\/\">IMDB <\/a>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotdocs.ca\/film\/title\/francophrenia_or_dont_kill_me_i_know_where_the_baby_is\">HotDocs Entry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Return to<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\">Home <\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=6\">Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews<\/a> <\/em>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=617\">F<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to: Home \/\u00a0Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews \/ F . Film: Weak\/ DVD Transfer: n\/a\/ DVD Extras: n\/a Label: n\/a\/ Region: n\/a\u00a0\/\u00a0Released: n\/a Genre: Mockumentary \/ Found Footage Synopsis: Experimental documentary on actor James Franco&#8217;s guest stint on the daytime soap opera &#8220;General Hospital.&#8221; Special Features: n\/a . . 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