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Zelig Part II ?

Unlike Woody Allen’s fictional character, the one that actor Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line) is playing in his latest role, can’t seem to go incognito. Adding to his countless public follies, yesterday’s stage(d) dive in public is either the best way to go about hiring extras for crowd scenes or is a great social experiment on “celebrity” (another Allen-titled film) and fame being lived out in the public eye (I draw many comparisons to the the Kevin Federline phenomena). If Casey Affleck processes the material to come up with a mockumentary or some celeb-experimental film, either way at this stage of the game I’m in.

Eric Lavallée

Published on March 13, 2009

Unlike Woody Allen‘s fictional character, the one that actor Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line) is playing in his latest role, can’t seem to go incognito. Adding to his countless public follies, yesterday’s stage(d) dive in public is either the best way to go about hiring extras for crowd scenes or is a great social experiment on “celebrity” (another Allen-titled film) and fame being lived out in the public eye (I draw many comparisons to the the Kevin Federline phenomena). If Casey Affleck processes the material to come up with a mockumentary or some celeb-experimental film, either way at this stage of the game I’m in.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).