Former President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton, as well as Tanzania President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, telecom magnate Carlos Slim of Mexico, and singer / songwriter Elton John also joined the 2 - hour - long talkfest via video satellite link. (sciencemag.org)
The results are far from perfect: For one thing, Lipsky is so far from being a fluid visual storyteller that the garishly lit, appallingly composed Flannel Pajamas makes another two - hander talkfest Lipsky famously distributed — «My Dinner With Andre» — seem like «Lawrence of Arabia» by comparison. (metacritic.com)
Shot in black and white, the movie at times plays like a hybrid of the layabout style of recent mumblecore and the more sharply written type of post-collegiate talkfest Baumbach delivered in Kicking And Screaming. (film.avclub.com)