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FitnessProsBooks.com - I Like Killing Flies
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Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Starring: I Like Killing Flies
Directed By: Matt Mahurin
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0767685990933
Format: Color
Label: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Running Time: 79
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Found It Entertaining, Then Bought His Book
Comment: I'm not fussy about production values and have worked in food service so I was taken aback by Mr. Shopsin's style at first but just looked at it as HIS thing in HIS place. I bought his book, which makes me reflect back on the movie with more kindness but I liked him fine from the movie.
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Summary: Glad I watched it.
Comment: I actually watched this DVD to decide whether or not to buy Kenny Shopsin's new book, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. The movie is a fairly well put-together documentary despite being poorly shot (too many close-ups, microphone in the picture about 100 times). One grows to tolerate Kenny and even like him over the course of an hour's worth of babbling, semi-coherent diatribes. I'm buying the book, if that says anything.
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Summary: closed Saturday and Sunday
Comment: Entirely interesting portrait of a man and his family running their small eatery in New York City.
The title is just one pearl of wisdom Kenny Shopsin shares with many to follow.
Introducing us to one of the specific entanglements charateristic of his kitchen, of which only he and his family would know how to navigate, he'll say "If you don't do what you're supposed to, you'll get punished...RIGHT AWAY! And then, you must pay penance."
I now would like to quote Kenny again. The following is taken from the final scene of the film. I thought it was so thought provoking I could not resist repeating it here so here goes:
"This is like another one of my half-baked philosphies. The FIRST duty of everybody, in life, is to realize that they're a piece of s---. They're selfish, they're self-centered...they're not very good, and, that you're willing to sacrifice 20,000 people in another country just so that you can, uh, go to uh, a WINGS concert. You've sacrificed the lives of a hundred thousand Chinese uh female babies, just so you can rent this f------ camera (he's looking directly at director Matt Mahurin here) and do your stupid art project. NO PROBLEM! You're a piece of [...]. Once you REALIZE you're a piece of [...] , it's NOT so hard to take. Because THEN...you don't have this FEELING that uh, you're a good person all the time. And, let me tell ya somethin'...feeling that you're a good person all the time is like having a brand new car with no scratches on it. It's a REAL responsibility which is almost impossible to live up to. Being a piece of [...] and then occasionally doing something that's good and true...it's a much easier place to be. I think that's really important and I always try and raise my kids to understand that they're NOT that terrific. And that NOT being that terrific, that's okay 'cos most people who say they are terrific (pause) Bill Clinton..Cardinal Egan (pause) anybody that you wanna talk about..they're not so terrific---MARTHA STEWART! They're not so [...] terrific either and there's nothing wrong with bein' not so terrific, ya know, in FACT it's what's the whole ball game is about, is about not being so terrific and accepting it."
Other than that gentle nugget, there is plenty to find affection for in this tiny film, from the Shopsin family to their customers to their creative menu as we get to watch it being prepared and to two major upheavals that confront the family during this time period.
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Summary: it really sneaks up on you......
Comment: I can't say that for the first twenty minutes or so I didn't want to kill this guy, instead of the flies....but it grows on you, like kudzu.....and creeps into your heart like one of his grotesquely delicious dishes. The whole family has hearts as big as one of the huge platters he serves up to (only) 2 or 4!!!!!!! Don't miss this movie......I've already bought several copies for friends and the good vibe is unanimous!
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Summary: I Like Watching Interesting Documentaries
Comment: The premise is promising: an avuncular, crotchety-but-lovable hash slinger (Kenny Shopsin) is being squeezed out of his beloved kitchen by greedy New York landlords and developers. And Kenny's musings on how New York's soul is being devoured by real-estate moguls are indeed interesting. Unfortunately, he has much more to say about a lot of other things, very little of which makes much sense except to him. The movie ends up being the worst thing a documentary can be: uninteresting.
I've eaten at Shopsin's a couple of times, and there's nothing charming about it. The food's decent, but the family is boorish and rude, and not in some quaint, lovable way. Kenny Shopsin is repulsive. This film is a good example of how art can make reality look a million times more appetizing than it is.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A flavorful snack of a documentary (Entertainment Weekly), I LIKE KILLING FLIES is a hearty tribute to the quick-witted, cantankerous chef whose Greenwich Village restaurant, Shopsin s, has become a New York legend.
With more than 900 items on its menu, all made from scratch in a tiny kitchen humming with improvised Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, Shopsin s has long been a quirky gem of New York food culture. But the fame belongs to the chef of Kenny Shopsin himself--a raffish cook enforcing his own rules, presiding over patrons, and famously claiming that customers have to first prove that they re OK to feed. Now, after occupying the same city corner for over three decades, the eatery loses its lease--and Kenny, his wife, and their children must find a new place to set up shop.
Directed by Matt Mahurin, this bitingly funny comedy follows a prickly, profanity-prone man seeking to preserve his dream; it dishes up bites of wisdom along the way, ultimately serving both a hilarious trip and a charming slice of New York history.
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