Review of Putney Swope (1969) by Gregory W — 24 Mar 2010

Robert Downey Sr. is the closest any American filmmaker has gotten to Luis Buñuel's zany, restless, unadulterated, high-brow sense of satirical surrealism. I can't help escaping this film is so visionary that it's like an allegory for the Obama administration was made decades before it ever came to be.

This is some solid directing here with ethereal visual passages and bursts of comedic power. Rarely have I seen a movie that's entertaining every second it appears on the screen without accident or concept just merely for being so amazingly well imagined.