Directed by Brian Cook, who was an assistant director on the Kubrick films "The Shining," "Barry Lyndon" and "Eyes Wide Shut," and written by Anthony Frewin, who was Kubrick's personal assistant, "this arch, episodic movie is really an affectionate sequence of in-jokes conceived as a posthumous homage to Kubrick by two knowing insiders," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
Its essential (and welcome) civic sentimentality was filtered through the wised-up, rapid-fire dialogue of its hyper-articulate characters, most of them at once knowing insiders and true believers.
From time to time, though, a knowing insider produces a satire of classical pretensions that approaches the sublime.
Directed by Philip Zlotorynski from a script by Chris Gore and Adam Schwartz, "My Big Fat Independent Movie" has a knowing, insider quality that could generate a modest cult following.
Fetishism in fashion "comes back and forth in a pendulum effect," she added -- "there in '92 and gone in '93, as if the designers suddenly say, 'Oh, we're all finished with that S/M look.' " Sometimes it returns with an ironic nod; sometimes as a knowing insider's reference; sometimes, it would seem, as a phantom expression of cultural anxiety.
Working from a sharp-tongued, soft-bellied script by four writers (including Jeff Ross, master of the celebrity roast), the director Taylor Hackford Rayaims aims for the kind of knowing, insider-ish portrait of a milieu previously depicted in movies like Mike Birbiglia's "Sleepwalk With Me" and "Don't Think Twice," or Judd Apatow's "Funny People" (which also featured Mann in a key supporting role).
And I was, unusually, in the position of knowing the insider stuff they didn't, that it was going to be 50 percent bigger with a significant amount of spending.
If Stewart did not know that Waksal was selling or why he was selling, merely knowing that ImClone insiders were bailing out may not be sufficient to trigger a fiduciary duty that would require her to refrain from trading, these experts say.
How else, other than unchecked fraud, could those banks have been "technically insolvent," with only a handful of insiders knowing the truth?
4. Rare habitat types like Victorian plains grassland on the Melbourne suburban fringe being very difficult to find & replace were commodified and bought up at scale by industry insiders knowing coming development would render the habitat extremely valuable when offsets were required in future.
Eric Clapton insisted that he too would be there, even if O'Dell and other insiders, knowing of the guitarist's incapacity due to severe heroin addiction, were surprised that Harrison had considered him for the occasion.
