The President's Analyst
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Movie Reviews of The President's Analyst
Movie Review: Ah, those changes!
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, there's good news on DVD. "The President's Analyst" has arrived with its original soundtrack intact -- at least as far as I know. The Barry McGuire music is back, but as far as the "eye ball" sequence that others talk about here, I don't see it. Maybe someone else can describe better what others are talking about and what still may be missing. I think what we have here is the offical release version and this movie is excellent, a wonderful artifact of its era. I'm glad it's finally out on DVD. The 16x9 anamorphic transfer looks great. I'm giving the DVD four stars based on the quality of the movie and its picture transfer (the mono sound is a bit too compressed), but I can't give it five stars because there's no trailer and the movie deserves a commentary track (Hey Paramount Home Entertainment, director Theodore J. Flicker is still alive!), but at least the original music is back..."The changes that keep going down
And they always will
I can get my fill
If I go along with the changes
That go round and round
It's all there to see
As they come to me
If I go along with the changes..."
Mother's Milk!
Movie Review: More Than a Comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
The movie, "The President's Analyst", is a quirky little comedy from 1967 that was only a minor hit at the time. It stars James Coburn from the era of his success as Derek Flint, the suave American counterpart to James Bond. But, sadly, Coburn's spy movies overshadowed this film and prevented it from being seen as an excellent commentary on the times, the American culture and the business world. Woven through this tale of a psychiatrist who is recruited to be on call for the President of the United States during stressful times are fascinating snapshot views of the 1960s. The comedy is enriched, not distracted, by subplots about the relationship of our intelligence community with that of Russia, about gun ownership in a way that would foreshadow many NRA issues, about the drug culture, the music culture, growing dependence on computerization and finally, the use of "the phone company" as a representation of big business in America. This hilarious movie is deeper than you might imagine, and Coburn is a master at not taking himself seriously while presenting some serious messages. I highly recommend this!Movie Review: Odd duck
Summary: 4 Stars
Here's a strange bird. The end is oddly unsatisfying, but the movie is lovingly wacky and well put together. It's maybe the best 2nd billing to the original Manchurian Canidate. It has something to say about the cold war and race relations and government control and the counter-culture movement and corporate pervasiveness and of, course, paranoia. Everyone's a spy, but that's okay. Is the analyst's life in danger, or is he just going through a perfectly normal psychological crisis that would be expected in his position?
It's not the laughfest I expected, though I did laugh at loud thrice.
Coburn's great, Godfrey's great. The phone booth is great.
Great supporting cast.
I say check it out.
Movie Review: Hilariously funny
Summary: 4 Stars
What a great movie. It is so funny and telling of its time. I love the scenes with the "average American family" - the guns, the judo, the son's Jr. Spy kit, the liberal jargon - with William Daniels ("Mr. Feeny" from Boy Meets World) putting in a great performance as the father of the family, Winn Quantrill. As many times as I've watched it I can't help but laugh out loud when the camera pulls up from the "hippy" scene in the grassy field when each of the assassins, in turn, have been killed - with Sydney (James Coburn) and the hippy chick "Snow White" (Jill Banner) totally oblivious. And of course there's the surprise discovery of who the real "bad guy" turns out to be - TPC. Hilarious movie!Movie Review: LSD IN THE FRUIT PUNCH SATIRE
Summary: 4 Stars
Not a belly laugh movie, but quiet giggles with a very 1960s (or 1984?!) mix of spies, hippies, muggers, the suburbs, on location photography and sets, lsd in the fruit punch, and the fbi out to kill the president's shrink.
With a cameo from jill banner; at age 20 she was 50 year old marlon brando's squeeze.