Comments on: Multiple SIDosis – perhaps the world’s greatest amateur film http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/08/06/multiple-sidosis-perhaps-the-worlds-greatest-amateur-film/ MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:41:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: RHS http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/08/06/multiple-sidosis-perhaps-the-worlds-greatest-amateur-film/#comment-4531 RHS Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:05:16 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=2223#comment-4531 <i>LOVE Fred MacMurray, really love him. But can he play 16 instruments simultaneously and optically manipulate them via reverse engineering of a bolex camera??</i> Well... not <i>now</i>. LOVE Fred MacMurray, really love him. But can he play 16 instruments simultaneously and optically manipulate them via reverse engineering of a bolex camera??

Well… not now.

]]> By: Gloria M. http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/08/06/multiple-sidosis-perhaps-the-worlds-greatest-amateur-film/#comment-4528 Gloria M. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:45:19 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=2223#comment-4528 I have seen the "Sid Saga" and have to say that on the surface it might be a home movie autobiography played for laughs, scratch the surface and it is a saga of pain, sadness, confusion and self-denial. Why didn't Sid's marriages last? Was he too busy making his 8mm movies to pay any attention to his wives? This is naive art. Brilliant in its own right. Right up there with Cassavetes' soul-searching psychodramas but much more entertaining and deceptively oblivious to the hard facts of life. Sid narrates his own pilgrim's progress without irony - though it's there in every frame - using crude drawings, dramatical re-enactments and his fondness for the odd detail. There are a LOT of odd details and it makes the "Sid Saga" a unique and wonderful celebration of the human condition. When it's over, you have to ask yourself: this is the work of an amateur filmmaker??? I have seen the “Sid Saga” and have to say that on the surface it might be a home movie autobiography played for laughs, scratch the surface and it is a saga of pain, sadness, confusion and self-denial. Why didn’t Sid’s marriages last? Was he too busy making his 8mm movies to pay any attention to his wives? This is naive art. Brilliant in its own right. Right up there with Cassavetes’ soul-searching psychodramas but much more entertaining and deceptively oblivious to the hard facts of life. Sid narrates his own pilgrim’s progress without irony – though it’s there in every frame – using crude drawings, dramatical re-enactments and his fondness for the odd detail. There are a LOT of odd details and it makes the “Sid Saga” a unique and wonderful celebration of the human condition. When it’s over, you have to ask yourself: this is the work of an amateur filmmaker???

]]> By: angryrobot http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/08/06/multiple-sidosis-perhaps-the-worlds-greatest-amateur-film/#comment-4517 angryrobot Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:49:40 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=2223#comment-4517 LOVE Fred MacMurray, really love him. But can he play 16 instruments simultaneously and optically manipulate them via reverse engineering of a bolex camera?? If it's any consolation - Sid wears Micky Mouse ears... LOVE Fred MacMurray, really love him. But can he play 16 instruments simultaneously and optically manipulate them via reverse engineering of a bolex camera?? If it’s any consolation – Sid wears Micky Mouse ears…

]]> By: RHS http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/08/06/multiple-sidosis-perhaps-the-worlds-greatest-amateur-film/#comment-4498 RHS Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:20:09 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=2223#comment-4498 And this has to do with Fred MacMurray how? And this has to do with Fred MacMurray how?

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