{"id":35743,"date":"2018-01-30T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=35743"},"modified":"2018-02-01T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:20:07","slug":"ben-stiller-we-live-in-public-the-meyerowitz-stories-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/movie\/2018\/01\/30\/ben-stiller-we-live-in-public-the-meyerowitz-stories-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"~BEN STILLER: ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ & ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ . . . yes !!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

if BEN STILLER . . <\/strong><\/p>\n

can do his just announced, upcoming feature adaption . ..
\nof ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, the Sundance winning documentary about JOSH HARRIS, the so-called Andy Warhol of the web, and art world bad boy . . .<\/p>\n

just as gently; but really funny in parts, all too human, bitter-sweet, sad and even harsh in others . . .
\nas is the tone of the recent ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ (2017) . . . where he plays older brother to a failed bro (musician), and successful son (wealth management for rich hipster clients) to an oppressively narcissistic forgotten artist dad, <\/p>\n

then things are looking good for a Hollywood re-make.<\/p>\n

though of course, ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’, though it often hit very close to home, and sometimes even . . too close to home, is a fictional though very accurate portrayal.<\/p>\n

it kind of makes you realize just<\/strong> how delicate a task it might be to come up with a great, funny, sad serious, twisty, biopic on Josh, esp as ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ . . moves very fast through a time frame of several years, and is characterized by Josh’s interactions with many different, but all high-octane ‘players’, who though individually brought a lot of wild antics, collectively imploded with great gusto, along with some hard knocks, . . within the so-called ‘social experiment’, that Josh said he made, but that really – made him !! <\/p>\n

ADAM DRIVER, has a wild cameo . . in ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’. <\/strong><\/p>\n

he plays a young wannabe rock star, who is maybe going through his first cash payday – a little bit too fast. Ben Stiller in his role as Matt, the older Meyerowitz bro – who runs a budding, start-up celebrity wealth management for hipsters business, has come in, to put a lid on the money action, but still stay .. cool af.<\/p>\n

in that fast-paced, tone-perfect scene, I could definitely see the potential . . for a perfect storm . . of a JOSH HARRIS \/ ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’. BIO-PIC.<\/p>\n

they should try to find a equally brief, in & out, cameo role for Driver . .
\nin the ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ project.<\/p>\n

maybe: as ALEX ARCADIA, lol.
\nhe built that Nazi-like, real goldfish swimming in pond \/ moat . . ran around a 3D temple, that Alex reportedly got $80K to build, & where Josh like some the mad leader of a futuristic cult, often gave his . . ‘mission’ speeches.<\/p>\n

with JONAH HILL . . already on-board to play . . Josh, & I can just see it, come to L-I-F-E.<\/p>\n

it could be real big win.<\/p>\n

‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – HELLO, H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’<\/strong>,
\ncame out last fall, directed & written by NOAH BAUMBACH<\/strong>.
\nit stars BEN STILLER<\/strong> & ADAM SANDLER<\/strong> (in very tapped-down comedic modes – hurray), as the very different, almost equally damaged grown (half !!) sons of the cranky, semi-seedy self-obsessed old school NYC artist, played by DUSTIN HOFFMAN, and he’s . . nailing it. performance-wise.
\nyou know, or you will, one day . . . the grumpy guy who never made it, won’t be the faculty group show, and his best friend is having a retrospection at the Whitney.<\/p>\n

‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ . . won the PALM DOG award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

COMEDY-DRAMA ?!!!<\/p>\n

REAL LIFE \/ DOCU-DRAMA ?!!!<\/p>\n

JOSH HARRIS & CREW \/ ARE IN YOUR HANDS, . . . BEN STILLER !!!!!<\/p>\n

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\nBEN STILLER, as MATTHEW MEYEROWITZ . . . in ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’.<\/p>\n

def, def def !! watch the trailer:<\/strong> ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ – OFFICIAL TRAILER \/ YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

in fact, you can watch the entire film right now,<\/strong> it’s now on . . NETFLIX !!<\/p>\n

more background . . .
\nsee: ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ – Wikipedia <\/a><\/p>\n

here’s how that wiki post \/ re: Plot . . begins:<\/strong>
\n“After separating from his wife, unemployed DANNY MEYEROWITZ (Adam Sandler) moves in with his father, HAROLD (Dustin Hoffman), a retired Bard College (!!) art professor and sculptor, and his 3rd<\/strong> wife, MAUREEN (Emma Thompson) . . .”
\nand btw:
\nDANNY has a daughter (Grace Van Patten) who is just starting film school, at Bard College, who makes . . “sexually obsessed” art films.
\nand, we can all . . relate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

if BEN STILLER . . can do his just announced, upcoming feature adaption . .. of ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, the Sundance winning documentary about JOSH HARRIS, the so-called Andy Warhol of the web, and art world bad boy . . . just as gently; but really funny in parts, all too human, bitter-sweet, sad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35743"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35769,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743\/revisions\/35769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}