Diary Entry forFunny Pages
i need to stop watching boy coming of age movies. all of them except for perks of being a wallflower suck. i hate them all, the main characters are always so obnoxious, loathsome and disgusting. but in this movie, everything was obnoxious, loathsome and disgusting. i knew from the first minute that i was going to hate this and i should've listened to my gut instead of wasting my time on this.
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Funny Pages
An ode to underground comics that never quite reaches the same heights or plumbs the same depths. Weirdly, I would’ve enjoyed spending more time here, through the brisk run time was appreciated. 2022 Ranked (https://boxd.it/fSyMM)
Funny Pages
In what is his feature film debut, Owen Kline’s Funny Pages is a messy, grimy coming-of-age that works more than it doesn’t. Following an aspiring cartoonist, Kline manages to create a world that’s unapologetically off-putting, populated by a collection of misfits that look like they wandered off the pages of an R. Crumb comic. Shot in 16mm, the film has an undeniably “ugly” presentation. It’s not pretty; it’s not supposed to be. The characters in Funny Pages aren’t, let’s just say, conventionally attractive—or even likable half the time—but that’s kind of the point. This is a world of outcasts and rejects, people who slipped through the cracks and were forgotten. Daniel Zolghadri is great as Robert, the stubborn dropout cartoonist refusing to embrace anything resembling normalcy, but it’s Matthew Maher’s Wallace who really steals the show. His character is unhinged in the best possible way—his dynamic with Zolghadri is where the film finds its best moments. I haven’t laughed like that in a very long time. Funny Pagesdoesn’t quite stick the landing—it’s abrupt and leaves you feeling like you missed something—but the ride there is more than worth it. Owen Kline’sfilm is a messy one, but it’s also deeply sincere, and that’s all I can ask for (though I can see why A24 buried the hell out of this). • Watched in 2025 — Ranked (https://boxd.it/C7Jq6)
Funny Pages
Freedom, at its bare virginity, is gross, pungent, raw, and unflinching. You can feel it from the grain in the film, the grease in every hairline and counter top, in every facial blemish and outburst from every zany character on screen. The film, in its short running time, is like a kettle that will whistle and whistle into a white noise that lingers in your ear until it stings, stays, and solidifies into you hearing out of one ear, not knowing why this happened, why these characters act the way that they do, why anything happens. This feeds my younger self. Like I wish I had this in junior year of high school when panic attacks were common and I had no idea what I was doing. I’m still the same, with less panic attacks, but there weren’t voices like these out there. See, the film has the same tonal notes as Daria or Ghost World but without much of the distaste to be alive. What makes our main character different is that he wants to be alive, he wants to live and live and see his art form itself around it. And if I had that voice versus the mandatory psychiatry and therapy sessions I had to take, being asked the dumbest questions that circled and circled into the pure lie that I am okay. My inner pubescent, acne-ridden teen just wanted less lies.
Funny Pages
A Curzon Film Watched this like two days ago but yea this is some cool safdie shit it don’t really have much to say really unorthodox but the ending was funny
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