Weekend Movie Forecast: Inglourious Basterds or Passing Strange

After premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, Mario Van Peebles's Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy Footed Mutha opens at Cinema Village. The Village Voice's Nick Pinkerton calls it a "homely home-video-art love-story curio, incorporating fragments of his 1982 stage musical Waltz of the Stork... The seventysomething star-writer-director plays the lead role from age 15 to 45, opposite actors who are, in every case, younger. This makes the scenes of teenaged sexual discovery particularly eyebrow-raising. Like practically everything in the movie, the device only really 'works' on a theoretical level, though it's transfixing for a time, in a slightly sad way... There's a temptation to 'give' this to Van Peebles, but any scene in which actors get to interact is deathly awkward, and 100 minutes should never feel this long."