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ON MARCH 20TH – GO SEE MY NEW FILM
From Left to Right:
Tom Hanks, Emliy Blunt, Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Sean McGinly, Gary Goetzman, and Me.
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My film The Great Buck Howard hits theaters this coming Friday (March 20th). I need everyone to take five friends and go see it opening weekend. That’s what really counts. Strong opening weekends is what this business has become all about and your support can make a huge difference.
We continue to receive positive reviews including TWO THUMPS UP from Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz of the famed show “At The Movies” (Atthemoviestv.com)
So go and take as many friends as you can.
Here’s hoping for a big success!!!!
May Your Life Be Extraordinary,
Marvin V. Acuna
OWEN GLEIBERMAN, CRITIC
John Malkovich, with his brainy absurdist whine, has been crawling out on a limb of inspired flakiness for years now, but his best work — like the mad Color Me Kubrick — has struggled to make it onto the distribution radar. The Great Buck Howard gives Malkovich the showcase he deserves, and not just because it lets the actor fly as high, and loopy, as he likes (though it does, it definitely does). It’s that writer-director Sean McGinly has built a structure that grounds the Malk, letting him create a character with as much fascination as folly. His Buck Howard, a loving, fictionalized version of the Amazing Kreskin, is a former superstar of magic and ”mentalism” who has become a joke with a rubber handshake, a relic of the late ’60s and early ’70s, babbling on about his 61 appearances on The Tonight Show. Now, he performs to half-full theaters in places like Bakersfield (”I love this town!” he crows). Yet his act is still amazing. He can read people’s minds (or is it all a big fraud?), and that fusion of cheesiness and wonder is at the heart of the movie, which traces Buck’s brief, shining moment of Tony Bennett-like he’s-so-out-he’s-in resurgence. A winning Colin Hanks is the wide-eyed law-school dropout who becomes assistant and road manager to the now kindly, now cantankerous, possibly gay, lost-in-the-leisure-suit-era Buck, and Emily Blunt, as the publicist who signs on to stoke Buck’s comeback, has a perky radiance.
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The Great Buck Howard is in love with kitsch, with the backwaters of showbiz, and with genuine magic. At times, it’s like a more commercial version of an early Jonathan Demme film, but McGinly is also part of a new breed of director — a slick good-time humanist, like Juno’s Jason Reitman. These two may not quite be artists (at least, not yet), but a thriving movie culture needs all the filmmakers like them it can find.
LANDMARK TONIGHT 740PM SCREENING
Colin Hanks, John Malkovich and Ricky Jay in ”The Great Buck Howard”
Join us tonight for the screening then for some special ”Buck Howard “cocktails at the wine bar adjacent to the theatre. Hope to see you there!
May Your Life Be Extraordinary,
Marvin V. Acuna
BUCK HITS THEATRES THIS FRIDAY
THE GREAT JOHN MALKOVICH
From left to right:
Me, John Malkovich, my sister (Sylvia), my nephew (Ashton), and my nephew’s girlfriend (Zuly) at The Great Buck Howard after-party at the Soho Grand (www.Sohogrand.com).
