Nickelodeon
1976
A film about the making of a film set in 1910. Some big names star in this slapstick comedy that pays some homage to the silent and indeed dangerous visual comedy of Harold Lloyd. Although it cannot replicate the charm and vivacity of the earlier, original works that have inspired it, it is nevertheless an interesting period .. Read more
| Starring | Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Keith, Tatum O'Neal |
|---|---|
| Director | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Nickelodeon
A film about the making of a film set in 1910. Some big names star in this slapstick comedy that pays some homage to the silent and indeed dangerous visual comedy of Harold Lloyd. Although it cannot replicate the charm and vivacity of the earlier, original works that have inspired it, it is nevertheless an interesting period piece on the 'behind-the-scenes' of movie making in that era. In the end, the characters go to Hollywood to see the groundbreaking film BIRTH OF A NATION.
| Starring | Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Keith, Tatum O'Neal |
|---|---|
| Director | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Studio | MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 56 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 08 Sep 2003 Production year: 1976 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich intended this tribute to the early days of film-making to be his masterwork, but it turned out to be one of his biggest flops. Ryan O'Neal plays the director, Burt Reynolds the handsome star, Stella Stevens a vamp and Brian Keith a fledgeling movie mogul. It was a critical and commercial disaster and it's certainly no masterpiece, but it's still a charmer, with nice performances and impeccable period atmosphere. Bogdanovich's travails with Nickelodeon were neatly satirised in Irreconcilable Differences, in which O'Neal plays a victim of the Hollywood system.
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To make a clinker out of a gift of a subject like silent movie-making is some feat, yet Peter Bogdanovich manages it... read more on Time Out
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Not many of this kind, but disappointing still
Well, I had heard about the director (Peter Bogdanovich) before, so I had cautiously high expectations.
Also, I was interested to see a movie on the beginnings of cinema.
Well, apart from promising titles, not enough materialised. More-or-less conventional love story, too few insights of the building of the cinema industry.
There were some fun scenes showing life of these pioneers, but all in all, it left me longing for more. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Not many of this kind, but disappointing still
Well, I had heard about the director (Peter Bogdanovich) before, so I had cautiously high expectations.
Also, I was interested to see a movie on the beginnings of cinema.
Well, apart from promising titles, not enough materialised. More-or-less conventional love story, too few insights of the building of the cinema industry.
There were some fun scenes showing life of these pioneers, but all in all, it left me longing for more. -
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Nickelodeon
A film about the making of a film set in 1910. Some big names star in this slapstick comedy that pays some homage to the silent and indeed dangerous visual comedy of Harold Lloyd. Although it cannot replicate the charm and vivacity of the earlier, original works that have inspired it, it is ...
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