Product Details

• Actors: Marisa Coughlan, Judy Greer, Shalom Harlow, Jared Harris, Joshua Jackson
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
• DVD Release Date: March 28, 2006
• Run Time: 111 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E1NXKO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,532 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "I Love Your Work" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

The achingly hip I LOVE YOUR WORK arrives with trappings familiar to any keen-eyed independent film fan. With a cast that includes Giovanni Ribisi (LOST IN TRANSLATION) and Franke Potente (RUN LOLA RUN) a big-star-in-a-cameo-role appearance (in this case Vince Vaughn) and the by now obligatory roles for people you wouldn't expect to see in such a movie (Jason Lee Elvis Costello) Adam Goldberg's debut feature is positively dripping in cool and he seems to have looked up every contact in his Rolodex for I LOVE YOUR WORK--even calling on the Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd to carve out a few songs for the soundtrack.Ribisi stars as Gray Evans a hip movie star who--between endless loft parties and frolics with his wife Mia Lang (Potente)--worries he is being stalked. Grappling with dreams about an ex-girlfriend (played by Christina Ricci) and obsessed with a young filmmaker John (Joshua Jackson) who reminds Gray of his pre-fame self he hires an investigator (Jared Harris) to help calm his insecurities. After setting out his stall Goldberg subsequently takes his audience on a disquieting thrill-ride through Gray's life beautifully capturing the preternatural world he inhabits. As Gray bees more and more obsessed with John and John s girlfriend Jane (Marisa Coughlan) Goldberg steers the movie into bizzaro-world with hints of work by directors such as David Lynch ing thick and fast. While Goldberg s film playfully struggles to reflect the dizzy confusion of its chief protagonist story threads are left dangling and the audience are made to do a lot of work; but it's a rewarding experience for those who are willing to delve into this excellent meditation on celebrity culture at the dawn of the 21st century.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR Age: 821575542951 UPC: 821575542951 Manufacturer No: TF-54295

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I don't love your work, March 30, 2006

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This review is from: I Love Your Work (DVD)

Oh joy. Another movie about how tough it is to be famous, rich and liked.

Actor/director Adam Goldberg's "I Love Your Work" attempts to tackle that subject, but the "poor little rich actor" storyline merely ends up feeling self-indulgent and whiny. Several of the actors are talented, but most of them -- except for star Giovanni Ribisi -- are misused.

Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is famous, rich and miserable. He married Mia (Franka Potente) after seeing her in a French film, but their marriage is crumbling because he thinks she's cheating with Elvis Costello, who is friendly with Mia. Distraught, Gray ends up in a video store, where he becomes fascinated with a young video store clerk (Joshua Jackson) and his loving girlfriend (Marisa Coughlan).

As his sanity begins to crumble, Gray stalks the couple, and starts to have visions of an ex-girlfriend (Christina Ricci) who reminds him of a happier time. He begins to reimagine his past, pre-fame life through the clerk and girlfriend, and soon the world of sanity is beginning to fade away.

Perhaps this movie would be more palatable if it hadn't been done by an actor. In the hands of someone like Wes Anderson, this movie would have been brilliant, dark and understatedly satirical. From Goldberg, it just seems self-indulgent. It has nothing new to say, and it doesn't add any sparkle to the old stuff.

And while Goldberg tries hard to make this a dark satire, he takes his Big Message too seriously. It starts off well, with Gray teetering on the edge of insanity, and imagining that everybody is watching, touching and pursuing him. For a short time, it has the elements of a lightweight Fellini movie.

But after the first half hour, Goldberg goes wild with the camera tricks and the plot. He's trying so hard to be arty and insightful, that he ends up almost making the film a parody of itself. And not a good parody either. It aspires to be a bizarre, surrealist experience like "Mulholland Drive." But it's too unfocused and self-conscious to even come close.

It doesn't help that Gray is not somebody we're going to care about. He's egotistical, self-absorbed, suspicious and whiny. And for all his complaints about his terrible life, it never seems to cross his mind to do the obvious thing. Quit acting. Retreat from the limelight. Maybe he secretly likes complaining.

Ribisi is definitely the center of the film, and his turn as a crazed movie star is wonderfully unsettling. Yes, it really is that weird, even though Gray is such an annoying character. Potente isn't required to do much more than sit there and look glamorous, but Ricci is brilliant in her small role as Gray's nebulous ex.

If you want to see navel-gazing, then "I Love Your Work" might be the ticket. But for anyone looking for clever, ingenious, entertaining filmmaking, look for someone else's work to love.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Some things are best left unexamined!, May 27, 2006

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This review is from: I Love Your Work (DVD)

This movie is to film and celebrity what watching a colonoscopy is to medicine. We all want good medicine, but some things are best left unwatched. Somewhat quirky and interesting at first, this movie turns into a redundant and confused two-by-four in the back of the head, an unflinching look at one sad hollywood story of a twitchy drunk with a serious inferiority complex complicated by delusions of non-grandeur in full melt-down. Giovani Ribisi is not at his "Boiler Room" best as this annoying self-loather who can get into all the best bars but can't get in with his wife or over his old girlfriend, who he hated for being between him and fame anyway, which now makes him so touchy. By the end I was so glad to see it end, at least I felt better about my life. For a better look at the celebrity/movie industry madness thing try "Swimming with Sharks" and "The Player". At least they did not forget to entertain the viewer by trying to be conceptual art first. This movie is a disturbed over-reaching conceptual masturbatory bummer. If you use the word "film" a lot instead of "movie", maybe you'll like it.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I don't know about this one, October 4, 2006

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This review is from: I Love Your Work (DVD)

I really don't know about this one. It started out really interesting but just fell off in the end. It was really wierd, because I really went from one end of the spectrum to the other. I really like it to I really don't? After a while it kinda got all artsy and confusing. Maybe it was suppose to , but I think that the guy making this film wanted you to think too much. Could have been alot better if it explained more. It was alright.