CRISPIN HELLION
GLOVER'S
WHAT IS IT?
What the Critics are Saying ...
Critical Acclaim for WHAT IS
IT?
Winner!
Best
narrative film. Ann Arbor Film
Festival 2005
Winner!
Maverick Award The Method Fest
Film Festival 2005
Winner!
The Midnight Extreme Award
Sitges Film Festival Spain 2006
“Crispin
Hellion Glover, auteur, is a force to be reckoned with.”
--Laura Kern, The New York Times
"Glover...puts
impenetrably odd and tender poetry on the screen."
--Bill Stamets, The Chicago Sun-Times
"Scenes
with naked women in elephant masks, Shirley Temple, Glover being lowered
deus-ex-machina style into a Maxfield Parrish scene...It's like Fellini on
psychedelics -- wildly creative but completely twisted."
--Jane
Ganahl, San Francisco Examiner
"It's
unlike anything I've ever seen before...the unrestrained id of an artist at full
frenzy, unafraid to mount onscreen what others would judiciously edit out.
Glover's film is like that the fever dream of a crazy person.
--Dennis
Dermody, Paper Magazine
“ABSOLUTELY
the most uncompromising and original thing I've seen. People try to compare it
to the likes of surrealist hero Luis Buñuel and trailblazer Werner Herzog, but
I say Glover has transcended even them"
--Kelly O. The Seattle Stranger Weekly
"Possibly
the most bizarre, uncompromising movie ever made by a major Hollywood
name."
-- Gilbert Garcia, Phoenix New Times
"Crispin
Glover... America's Best Psychotic energy."
-- Richard Lacayo, Time Magazine
"What
Is It? is an outre, bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film. It is
brilliant in its sensitivity and humanity and infantile in its excess."
-- Darius James, Spin
“Crispin
Glover is weird and wonderful... Crazy in a Good Way."
-- Joel Stein, Time Magazine