New single Say Goodbye to What appears to be based on a sample of some ancient British folk ditty but, with its tribal beat and assorted snatches of dialogue and Looney Tunes FX, ends up sounding like Fleetwood Mac's Tusk being played by the furry Day-Glo creatures from 70s kids show the Banana Splits.
Adam McKay's anarchic, semi-comic breakdown of the real estate-driven US financial crisis of 2007 is a caffeinated, cacophonous beast, darting frantically between the overlapped dialogues of assorted bankers, brokers and victims of the crash as it seeks to stridently assign blame.
The film's nightmarish atmosphere was well rendered by director and producer Roy William Neill, and the screenplay, written by Neill and Edmund L. Hartmann, boasts clever dialogue and assorted plot twists.
Much of the dialogue is written in assorted dialects, and it's given exaggerated phonetic pronunciation here that jars more than it was presumably intended to.
This is competent if completely impersonal filmmaking of a familiar type that finds the usual allotment of famous, or at least famous enough, actors — Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Fox and Sigourney Weaver — arranged in various configurations in assorted spaces and delivering instantly forgettable dialogue.
Geneva roundtable discussion Beyond today's events in New York, the 18th anniversary of the CRC was celebrated yesterday by a group of young people, a panel of leading child rights experts and assorted guests in a dynamic inter-generational dialogue at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
He said another actor recorded new Olivier dialogue, but his image came from assorted films and archives.
Meanwhile, the dogs' dialogue is performed in English by assorted western stars, including Anderson alumni Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton, along with Jeff Goldblum as the gossip-loving Duke.
"Ladies and gentleman... Carson McCullers!" comes the faintly absurd fanfare from Joe Iconis at the piano, who provides the music and occasional dialogue, along with Andy Stack on guitar and assorted instruments.
But I would not be surprised to be told that instead of the dialogue from the script, I began spouting assorted lyrics from "West Side Story," vestigial bits of a seventh-grade book report, directions from the back of a shampoo bottle or a recipe for ginger snaps.
After whirling up the West Side Highway and bouncing over downtown cobblestones, I was ushered into assorted cubicles, there to have a series of pretend-frank dialogues.
