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	Schizopolis - Rotten Tomatoes
		Schizopolis is Steven Soderbergh's berserk and uneven attempt to mimic Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou; he wants to provoke reaction but he's not quite sure how to go about it.
		Schizopolis is by no means an epochal event, but it's clever and offbeat, well worth appreciating on its own proper terms.
		Exasperating as it is, Schizopolis has a deliberateness almost interesting enough to offset its sophomoric streak.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/schizopolis (606 words)

	Schizopolis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schizopolis is an experimental comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh in 1996.
		Shot for US$250,000, Schizopolis was given limited theatrical release, considered too odd for the mainstream crowd.
		However, the film has found a devout audience in those who enjoy the avant-garde, and was recently included in the Criterion Collection as #199.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schizopolis (1338 words)

	Schizopolis: Steven Soderbergh, an American independent
		Schizopolis is his fifth feature film and it represents something of a departure.
		In the film's final sequence Munson sits unmoving in a whirlwind of humanity as he outlines his future in a voice-over: in three years such and such will happen, in five years such and such, and, finally, in eight years' time he explains that he will be discovered frozen in Alaska and "successfully thawed.
		Because Schizopolis was at the same time my impression of five years of marriage in which I watched and participated in the destruction of communication and language, which is a really terrible thing to go through.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1996/dec1996/sode-d02.shtml (1745 words)

	Schizopolis - DVD Movie Central
		Schizopolis is a much acceptable piece of risk-taking ideas, but it's one that is not really full of too much meaning, but then again, maybe it wasn't supposed to include any.
		Schizopolis happens to include a variety of looks to it, all of which turn up at a much pleasant level.
		Schizopolis is a cult favorite among some, I can't say that this exclusive list of fans includes me. Steven Soderbergh remains one of my favorite current filmmakers, but watching this I couldn't help but feel he's done so much better than this.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/schizopolis.htm (882 words)

	DVDFILE.com
		The result was a film that, although critically reviled and box office poison, re-energized the director, reaffirmed his faith in making movies, and propelled him forward into a winning streak that would earn him several blockbuster movies and an Oscar.
		Schizopolis is the work of the same Steven Soderbergh who made that movie, not the one who was on his best behavior for Erin Brockovich or Ocean's 11.
		Those people who have been dying for a release of Schizopolis on DVD will be well served by Criterion's modest but swell special edition.
	www.dvdfile.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=739&Itemid=3 (1249 words)

	Jigsaw Lounge - Schizopolis
		Much like Gus Van Sant’s absurdly-maligned conceptual-art Psycho remake of 1998, Schizopolis is a film made first and foremost for the benefit of its director, not any potential viewers.
		Schizopolis is, to say the least, a very different kind of animal.
		Schizopolis, meanwhile, makes about as much sense on film as it does on paper.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/schizopolis.html (316 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Schizopolis: Criterion Collection
		Schizopolis is in no way his best work (which, for me, remains his very first film), but it's a heck of a lot of fun.
		Schizopolis is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and anamorphically enhanced.
		Schizopolis is a flawed but enjoyable little film that fit my sense of humor like a glove.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/schizopolis.php (1391 words)

	Astro-Noetics.com :: The Uranus Film
		In the tradition of Woody Allen's Bananas and Tim Robbin's Bob Roberts, Schizopolis is a nonsensical satire that deviates from almost every conventional narrative device in filmmaking.
		Soderbergh's Schizopolis might be called a "quantum comedy" because its rules, logic, and structure is more akin to the quantum world of nonlocality and observer dependence then the Newtonian-Cartesian world that we normally function within.
		All factors being valid, a transcendental or final cause for Soderbergh's Schizopolis was his experiencing of a transit from Uranus to his natal Sun in Capricorn at the time of its completion and release.
	www.astro-noetics.com /uranus_film_9.html (371 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Schizopolis: The Criterion Collection
		To attempt to describe Schizopolis in too much detail is to go the way of madness, and it would spoil the surprises and challenges of the movie.
		But we also see that she's every bit as insular as the men with whom she was attempting to communicate — Munson, Korchek, and a third lover, also played by Soderbergh, all literally speak foreign languages to her ears.
		Schizopolis begins with a pronouncement by Soderbergh that the film to follow is "the most important motion picture you will ever attend" and warning that "in the event that you find certain sequences or ideas confusing, please bear in mind that this is your fault, not ours.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/s/schizopolis_cc.shtml (1061 words)

	Schizopolis
		Schizopolis is a funny movie, an inventive one, and the best career advice that a modern-day Hollywood director ever assigned to himself.
		Yes, there is an onanistic quality to starring in a movie you wrote, shot, and directed yourself, and to casting your ex-wife and the mother of your daughter as your increasingly distant wife and the mother of your daughter.
		Schizopolis is by no means an epochal event, but it's clever and offbeat, well worth appreciating on its own proper terms.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /schizopl.html (863 words)

	Reel.com: Schizopolis
		Ironically, those who criticize Schizopolis using conventional criteria are, in effect, victims of the film's parody, which dissolves language, criticism — and other familiar communication patterns — into pure nonsense.
		As a reaction to normalcy, Schizopolis simply follows the law of physics that states "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." If it is, indeed, nonsense, then our everyday cinematic constructs are conversely absurd.
		If Schizopolis was actually a stunt, as critics surmised, then it was one of the most worthwhile stunts of the decade — a cinematic boot-to-the-head, the likes of which the '90s had not previously seen.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/millennium/bestof90s/schizopolis (1014 words)

	Schizopolis - Movie Review
		Fortunately, although Schizopolis is quite definitely on the experimental end of things (with the "E" capitalized and underlined three times), it doesn’t have nearly the amount of pretense that Soderbergh’s similarly-random, celebrity-choked 2002 effort, Full Frontal, had in spades.
		Schizopolis at first has the feel of a tweaked masterpiece along the lines of Waking Life, but although it ends up as a moderately funny and seriously skewed anti-film (whatever the hell that means), that doesn’t make it worthless.
		The DVD release of the film is in a faultless package by Criterion, which includes deleted scenes (titled “Maximum Busy Muscle,” of course), theatrical trailer, and two audio commentaries, the first one featuring Soderbergh interviewing himself, and the second with producer John Hardy, sound mixer Paul Ledford and two actors, Mike Malone and David Jensen.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/schizopolis (404 words)

	Schizopolis: Criterion Collection (1997)
		A highly experimental film with a Terry Gilliam influence, Schizopolis would deserve praise if just because it helped right the course of Steven Soderbergh’s cinematic ship; he’s created some fine flicks since this one, and had it not cleansed his palate, that might not have occurred.
		Schizopolis generally looked decent, but it presented more concerns than I’d expect for such a recent movie.
		I have to recommend a movie as compellingly strange as Schizopolis, but I’d definitely advise a rental first; if you like it, grab a copy, but this is way too unusual an experience for me to push a purchase sight unseen.
	www.dvdmg.com /schizopolis.shtml (1730 words)

	Steven Soderbergh
		Schizopolis is another meditation on the 'coming of age', but the age being examined and the approach to it are vastly different.
		It is not because Schizopolis is experimental that it is worthy – there are plenty of non-linear narratives out there that are poor articulations of the filmmaker's intentions.
		I say this because it emphasises, through strengths and flaws, both the persistent drive towards linearity that the medium presents to directors fond of experimental filmmaking, and subverts that drive without alienating viewers since it is, essentially, a comedy.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/soderbergh.html (2929 words)

	DigsMagazine.com \| laze: flick pick: SCHIZOPOLIS
		Trying to summarize Schizopolis' plot is a little like trying to explain your dreams to people: you start off totally excited about it and as you go along, you realize that what you're saying is both a thoroughly accurate description of what progressed, and completely nonsensical at the same time.
		Schizopolis is basically divided into three acts, with each one telling the same story from the perspective of three different characters, Fletcher, Dr. Korchek, and Mrs.
		But Schizopolis also happens to be incredibly funny, eminently quotable, snappily-paced, and deliriously original, all of which combine to make it the first Soderbergh film that I've genuinely loved.
	www.digsmagazine.com /laze/flick_schizopolis.htm (593 words)

	Sex, Lies and Weird / Steven Soderbergh's `Schizopolis' is goofy and spirited fun
		Written and directed by Steven Soderbergh, who came to prominence in 1989 with ``sex, lies and videotape,'' ``Schizopolis'' is the kind of personal, independent film one might expect from a first-time director.
		Before the opening credits, Soderbergh himself appears behind a lectern and announces that ``Schizopolis'' is the most important film of our time, and that if people don't understand it, it's their fault.
		For those able to find their way onto the ``Schizopolis'' wavelength, this is the most interesting film out there.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/06/13/DD13153.DTL (546 words)

	Re:mote Induction: Schizopolis
		From the get go, Schizopolis is a highly entertaining movie which, underneath the obvious abstraction, is exceedingly clever.
		While with many films surrealism is just plain dull, in the case of Schizopolis it is unintrusive, minimalistic and perfectly acceptable.
		Thankfully it is more important that this is a film of which he can be proud.
	members.tripod.com /rem_ind/visual/schizop.htm (190 words)

	Archives 1997 \| R: ARCHIVE, S: REVIEWS, D: 05/29/1997, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Unlike most recent Sundance features, which are underbudgeted Hollywood-alikes, Schizopolis really is a maverick film, an ambitious "auteur" work by a writer/director (and, this time, actor) insistent on taking major risks with form and content.
		The most successful part of Schizopolis could be subtitled "Dilbert Meets L. Ron Hubbard." Geeky Fletcher Munson (Soderbergh) is a skinny-tie insecure underling behind a desk in the self-help mega-empire of T. imuth Schwitters (a bullet-headed Mike Malone), guru of Eventualism.
		Unfortunately, Schizopolis sways out of control with exasperating, indecipherable plot turns involving all types of doubles (the balding filmmaker replicates as a punster/swinger dentist).
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archives/1997/documents/00442885.htm (245 words)

	: Schizopolis - Criterion Collection - DVD film
		Schizopolis is no bull's-eye, and it has just as many detractors as admirers, but it's impossible not to appreciate Soderbergh's conviction that making a film out on the fringes is a worthy endeavor.
		Schizopolis isn't at all like any of Soderbergh's other films (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Out of Sight, the 'Oceans' movies).
		The story goes that he made it due to his frustration with studio indifference and/or meddling and decided to do something cheap and fun on his own, even starring in it himself.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/B0000BUZKS (1304 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Schizopolis
		And yet it may be (or not) what the narrator calls it: "The most important picture you will ever see." Schizopolis, Steven Soderbergh's sporadically slow but mostly exciting temporary farewell to narrative, tells, in three parts, the story of a slightly parallel world in which word, meaning and identity have packed up and gone home.
		The high quality of this absurdist tale will be no surprise to the handful who saw Soderbergh's completely underrated Kafka or his exciting work in Gray's Anatomy, where he adorned Spalding Gray's monologue with a dozen and more cinematic techniques: found footage, sound effects, interviews, a little computer toasting.
		Schizopolis isn't as technically flashy, but it's mysterious, hilarious, very well acted and suffused with the comic mood of doom you find in Pynchon--a happy film about disease and terror.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.26.97/schizopolis-9726.html (471 words)

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