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	Being John Malkovich (1999): John Cusack, John Malkovich, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener - PopMatters Film Review
		As the film demonstrates in several instances when Malkovich is praised by civilians for his performance as a jewel thief, in a movie he never made, most people don't know him for his work or his talent.
		Malkovich is unsurprisingly bizarre, which is to say, it's as incredible as it has to be.
		Some clients become addicted to the "John Malkovich ride" and return again and again; others see it as a brief departure from their apparent norms; and still others, like Lotte, see in it a way to become more complete versions of themselves.
	www.popmatters.com /film/being-john-malkovich.html (1192 words)

	Being John Malkovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As well as Malkovich's performance as himself (or at least a version of himself; his middle name in the film is Horatio, while his real middle name is Gavin), Cameron Diaz's role attracted considerable attention, at least partly as she was almost unrecognizable as the dowdy Lotte.
		Malkovich becomes paranoid that he is being controlled by a supernatural force and, after consulting his friend Charlie, comes to believe that Maxine is a witch.
		When John Malkovich asked the director to keep it in the movie, he asked the crew if they thought they could make the shot; half the crew put their hands up, and it was completed in the first take.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Being_John_Malkovich (1872 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: BEING JOHN MALKOVICH review
		John Cusack plays a frustrated and unsuccessful puppeteer who spends his days toiling on street corners for spare change.
		Yet, like what would seem to be a one joke movie, Malkovich as Malkovich manages to send up his own on-screen persona yet bring warmth, vulnerability and humor to his own theatrical recreation.
		This is the story of John Malkovich, puppeteer extraordinaire, and is a dead-on parody of those AandE-type biographies.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/beingjohnmalkovich.htm (1186 words)

	John Malkovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, to a Croatian father Daniel Malkovich, a state conservation director and publisher of a conservation magazine, and Joe Anne, who owned the Benton Evening News in Benton, Illinois, as well as the Outdoor Illinois.
		John Malkovich has an interest in clothing design and sales,- http://www.unclekimono.com/ is his site regarding a certain style of clothes.
		Malkovich is an outspoken supporter of the death penalty and the right-wing government of Israel led by Ehud Olmert.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Malkovich (918 words)

	Being John Malkovich review
		Craig Schwartz (John Cusack playing the perfect loser) is a schmucky puppeteer who has not yet skyrocketed to the top of the puppet world.
		He tells his wife, and when Lottle does it and experiences being Malkovich taking a shower, she decides she is a transsexual.
		Malkovich plays the character "Malkovich" in the way we imagine him to be, rich and smug.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/beingjohnmalkovich.html (948 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (1999)
		BEING JOHN MALKOVICH is one of those films where all the chaotic elements of the universe seemed to have swirled together for a perfect moment and the result is magic.
		BEING JOHN MALKOVICH was nominated for or won approximately 90 different honors, including nominations in three Oscar categories and wins for the SF Hugo, Nebula, and Saturn awards.
		BEING JOHN MALKOVICH is more than just a comedy, it is a social commentary that emphasizes human flaws through the absurdity of the situation (in the best Absurdist Theater tradition), and Burwell's score gives a gravity to the film that would have been lost with a lighter score.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews/beingmalkovich.html (1236 words)

	Being John Malkovich
		And perhaps the largest irony in a movie full of them is that probably no moviegoer in history has ever sought to feel what John Malkovich feels -- the cold sardonic hipster, the mystery man, the moral blank who keeps you at arm's length and laughs at you for watching him.
		Being John Malkovich is a triumph for Spike Jonze, who has distinguished himself as a rock-video artist mainly by not dealing in the same tired flash-flash, Cuisinart gimmickry we associate with MTV (and many of its graduates, like Alex Proyas).
		Being John Malkovich reminds us why movies like this need to be made; at its best, it reminds us that the medium hasn't lost its magic yet.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/malkovich.html (1377 words)

	Being John Malkovich (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It's a modern fable that unfolds it's story like a game, and uses it's characters like puppets (John Cusak, Cameron Diaz and Cathering Keener are flawless), as they discover a new dimension of themselves after they enter someone else's conscience.
		"Being John Malkovich" explores the way lives can be totally warped by lust and greed, how the concept of "celebrity" drives ordinary people to extreme lengths, and the unexpected possibilities of accessing things through someone else's body.
		"Being John Malkovich" examines this mostly during the end, and unfortunately, it doesn't fully succeed.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0120601 (462 words)

	Being John Malkovich
		Being John Malkovich is ingenious, different, beautifully directed and acted, and also very, very funny.
		When Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), puppeteer, is forced by economic necessity to seek employment as a file clerk, he is told by his prospective employer that his company is on the 7-1/2th floor.
		Malkovich.” The scene is sharp like an acid-flashback, hysterically funny, and is sure to be one of the most talked-about segments of the season.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/BeingJohnMalkovich.htm (580 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Being John Malkovich"
		In fact, its main plot force of a portal leading inside actor John Malkovich's head was just the springboard from which an even wilder ride through one's own conscious and subconscious feelings of identity, life, love and sexuality took form.
		It also needs to be said that actor John Malkovich, besides being a good sport about the whole thing, plays himself and all the other characters extremely well, and does quite the job of convincing everyone that he is himself (?).
		Other than the "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich" scene (which was eerily like the "Where's the Fish?" scene in Monty Python's Meaning of Life, and come to think of it, the 7.5 floor was Python-esque), I found most of this movie tedious.
	www.joblo.com /beingjohnmalkovich.htm (2185 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Being John Malkovich
		Unless you dream of Cameron Diaz as a plain Jane, frizzy haired brunette who is bound, gagged and locked in a cage with a diaper wearing, psychologically damaged chimpanzee named Elijah while her puppeteer husband inhabits John Malkovich's head as said actor has sex with said husband's business partner and lust object.
		Most of the jokes and absurdities in Being John Malkovich are laid out in a matter of fact style that, if you go with the proverbial flow, you'll find yourself sucked into the hilarity of it all.
		The tunnel, gooey messy thing that it is, transports Craig into the mind of John Malkovich, actor, 2 time Academy Award™; nominee and so on and so forth.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive99/beingjohnmalkovich.html (895 words)

	John Malkovich Picture, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Malkovich's production company plans a fall start for a feature film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Found in the Street -- The indie project is a psychological suspense thriller about a chance encounter between several people in New York's Greenwich Village, including a middle-aged security guard, an artist, his bisexual wife and a lesbian waitress/model.
		Malkovich has signed to star in the comedy COLOR ME KUBRICK, the true story of a man who conned his way into London's high life by pretending to be reclusive director Stanley Kubrick.
		Malkovich is ending his love affair with France and moving to Asia after a row with the French Government over income tax -- He confesses Asia is a likely choice for the next Malkovich family home, but insists on keeping his options open, I really have no idea where we're going.
	www.celebritywonder.com.cob-web.org:8888 /html/johnmalkovich.html (641 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Being John Malkovich [2000]: DVD: John Cusack,Charlie Sheen,Sean Penn,Brad Pitt,Cameron Diaz,Catherine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That's to be expected in a movie that dares to ponder the existential dilemma of a forlorn puppeteer (John Cusack) who discovers a metaphysical portal into the brain of actor John Malkovich.
		Malkovich himself is the film's pièce de résistance, playing on his own persona with obvious delight and--when he enters his own brain via the portal--appearing with multiple versions of himself in a tour-de-force use of digital trickery.
		John Cusack plays a failed puppeteer who takes a job as a filing clerk on the seriously low-ceilinged 7 1/2th floor of a large office block.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Being-John-Malkovich-Cusack/dp/B00004U8OC (1490 words)

	Movie Info for Being John Malkovich on MSN Movies
		Puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is having money problems, so he takes a temporary job as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a large office building.
		Craig discovers that entering the portal allows him to become John Malkovich for a brief spell, and in time he and his beautiful but aloof co-worker Maxine (Catherine Keener) get the bright idea to charge admission for the privilege of spending 15 minutes inside the head of a well-known actor.
		Malkovich realizes that something strange is happening to him, but can do little to stop it, as strangers take over his mind for a quarter-hour at a time.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=92211 (280 words)

	NPR : The Misunderstanding of John Malkovich
		All Things Considered, May 8, 2006 ·; Audiences may think of John Malkovich as the guy who specializes in playing evil, demented or manipulative villains.
		Malkovich is more than just a big-screen baddie -- and he's more than just an actor.
		In an interview with Robert Siegel, Malkovich talks about the challenges of both acting in and producing the same movie, why it's lucky he's a "gifted and well-trained liar" and how tater tots foiled an earlier career as a cabbage cutter.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5382649 (292 words)

	John Malkovich Pictures, Biography, Filmography, News, Trailers,
		After winning acclaim for his characterization of the scheming Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons, he became associated with a series of roles that, to put it plainly, essentially required him to be an ev...
		Discuss John Malkovich with Starpulse members in the forums...
		john malkovich is old enough 2 ma dad at 53 but i still fink he is rely good looking and an absolutly excellent actor.
	www.starpulse.com /Actors/Malkovich,_John (174 words)

	Amazon.ca: Being John Malkovich (Widescreen Special Edition): DVD: Orson Bean,Ned Bellamy,W. Earl Brown,Kevin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Malkovich himself is the film's pièce de résistance, riffing on his own persona with obvious delight and--when he enters his own brain via the portal--appearing with multiple versions of himself in a tour-de-force use of digital trickery.
		John Malkovich has been in a large number of my very favorite films: The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Places in the Heart, Shadow of the Vampire, In the Line of Fire and Of Mice and Men.
		But that potential is squandered for cheap laughs: a lesbian affair through Malkovich's body, chimpanzee childhood traumas, lecherous old men, etc. Instead of harnessing the inherent ironic humor in the idea and making this a thought-provoking movie, the writers used the idea to string together several cheesy laughs characteristic of other Hollywood comedies.
	www.amazon.ca /Being-John-Malkovich-Widescreen-Special/dp/B00007AJF8 (2962 words)

	DVD Review - Being John Malkovich: Special Edition
		Craig is bored with his life, and he's hot for Maxine, so he's happy to go along when she suggests that they make a buck or two off the discovery.
		And Malkovich's puppet show/dance, in which he flails around wildly, is worth the price of this disc alone.
		The second short is the fake documentary on Malkovich which is seen late in the film, featuring his second career as a puppeteer (and a funny cameo by Brad Pitt).
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/beingjohnmalkovich.html (1115 words)

	John Malkovich
		John Gavin Malkovich was born Dec. 9, 1953 in Benton, Illinois, one of five children of a journalist mother and an environmentalist father.
		Malkovich described the exchange with Interview this way: “They had seen some things I did in college, none of which were terribly successful, but they asked me to join in 1979, and I sort of felt, these assholes with their theater--sure.
		The movie that may stick the longest, however, is Malkovich playing a parodied version of himself in Being John Malkovich, the story of a puppeteer played by John Cusack who finds a portal into Malkovich’s head at his job (which is located on the seventh-and-a-half floor).
	eiuhalloffame.tripod.com /malkovich/malkovich.html (1907 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Being John Malkovich' -- reality bitten - November 3, 1999
		Malkovich eventually catches on that he's being colonized by the thoughts of complete strangers, and that Maxine has something to do with it.
		Andy Warhol famously posited that in the future everyone will be famous for that period of time, and one of the unspoken jokes here is that the customers who enter the actor often experience the most humdrum situations imaginable.
		Malkovich showers, orders bath towels over the telephone, and reads a script into a tape recorder, among other things.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9911/03/review.malkovich/~hsindex.html (1298 words)

	John Malkovich @ Filmbug
		John Malkovich won the National Society of Film Critics Awards for best supporting actor for his first two motion pictures - Robert Benton's Places In The Heart (his feature film debut which also earned him his first Academy Award nomination) and Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields.
		Malkovich's film credits cover a wide variety of roles in some of the most noted and eclectic features in the last 15 years.
		Knockaround Guys reunites Malkovich with writer-directors Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who wrote Rounders, the 1998 feature in which he starred opposite Matt Damon and Edward Norton.
	www.filmbug.com /db/870 (334 words)

	BEING JOHN MALKOVICH - SPECIAL EDITION DVD
		Being John Malkovich exploits every thinkable opportunity presented by its central conceit: that premier thespian John Malkovich is a vessel through which any of us can live his life fifteen minutes at a time (a sledgehammer-subtle reference to Andy Warhol's philosophy on fame).
		Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), a filing clerk and defeated puppeteer, discovers a portal in his office that leads directly into the head of John Malkovich.
		Being John Malkovich is no novelty act, no deliberately quirky one-off (you know, the sort of stuff a writer initiates after first discovering "Twin Peaks").
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/beingjohnmalkovich.htm (681 words)

	Being John Malkovich (1999): Reviews
		Either Being John Malkovich gets nominated for best picture, or the members of the Academy need portals into their brains.
		Being John Malkovich, which contains not a frame of extraneous footage, is more than a must-see movie: It's a must-see-more-than-once event.
		This is the most impressive directorial debut since"Reservoir Dogs." Being John Malkovich is weird, all right-- the best kind of weird, the kind you haven't seen before.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/beingjohnmalkovich (1198 words)

	SCREEN IT! ARTISTIC REVIEW: BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
		Comedy: Having discovered a portal that leads directly into actor John Malkovich's head where visitors can see and hear everything he does, a small group of people vies for ultimate control of the actor and his behavior.
		Craig Schwartz (JOHN CUSACK) is a down on his luck artist whose sexually charged street puppet shows are more likely to result in him being punched out than receiving grateful applause.
		Able to see, hear and feel everything that Malkovich does, Craig is forever changed by the experience that lasts only fifteen minutes before unceremoniously dropping him alongside the Jersey turnpike.
	www.screenit.com /ourtake/1999/being_john_malkovich.html (1292 words)

	Seeking John Malkovich - The Boston Globe
		This Malkovich guy -- this ''Being John Malkovich" guy, which made him so way cooler -- might be the exception, we thought.
		Malkovich would walk into the celebrity-starved Harvard/Cambridge/Hub demimonde, plunk down a big stack of credits (''The Killing Fields," ''Places in the Heart," ''In the Line of Fire," etc.), cock his beret, spread his cape, and announce in a loud voice, ''I'm John Malkovich!
		According to Davis, the Malkovich sighting inspired her to start chatting with a man standing on Mass.
	boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2005/09/12/seeking_john_malkovich (969 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| "Being John Malkovich" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By the end, "Being John Malkovich" becomes so unhinged that its story loses all shape and direction -- but the tremendous craft and warped sensibility at work are so pleasurable that this really doesn't matter as much as it should.
		Except for the memorable scene when the character John Malkovich himself goes inside the head of the famous actor John Malkovich and encounters some kind of endless Malkovichian feedback loop, Jonze's debut feature sticks to a grimy, present-tense mode you might call kitchen-sink surrealism.
		One of the best things about "Being John Malkovich," to my mind, is that Jonze and Kaufman don't waste time making fun of these ordinary, unhappy people, who would certainly make easy targets.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/10/29/malkovich (706 words)

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