Review of For Your Consideration (2006) by Chads. — 25 Nov 2006
The music is never contemporary in many of Woody Allen films. "For Your Consideration" doesn't feel very contemporary either, on the studio lot, that is. It has the same time warp feel that many of late period-Allen films have.
As for the fictional picture they're making, "Home for Purim" (when the film goes gentile, you can't help but think of Allen's change of pace film "Match Point"), its subversive element is similar to the otherwise throwback-to-another-era sort of film that slyly recalls a particular Todd Haynes-directed pic which was also small and generated a lot of Oscar buzz.
"For Your Consideration" also makes reference to the prickly relationship between two 1983 Oscar-nominated actresses who were also generationally challenged like Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara) and Callie Webb (Parker Posey), but goes about it in a roundabout fashion (the feud is between Webb and her co-star/boyfriend).
"For Your Consideration" isn't a faux-documentary, but its parodies of celebrity culture-porn news shows like "Entertainment Tonight" and performance art (Webb's one-woman extravaganza) play like the genuine article.
This review of For Your Consideration (2006) was written by Chads. on 25 Nov 2006.
For Your Consideration has generally received mixed reviews.
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