The Man in the Green Jacket

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Maybe the world didn't want THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME in 1988, but man, the world sure needed it. And still does.

Your hosts, the meandering Fagan brothers, traditionally take a more cynical view of movies, but one might accurately describe this one as "magical" or "a feel-good movie" and guess what? We fucking love it. The story of a talented but unsuccessful special-effects filmmaker attempting to navigate the bureaucracy and ineptitude of Hollywood, THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME is a piece of celluloid origami that is about the making of itself. And yet, that's not what it's about at all.

THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME celebrates the persistence of inspiration in unpleasant circumstances. It celebrates joy and sincerity and magic, in a way that works because the artist himself believes in them. Writer/director/star/actual wizard M ...