SOME PRAISE FOR "NOTHING SO STRANGE"
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past TV, print and web press coverage.)
VARIETY:
"Brian Flemming's 'Nothing So Strange,' with its anti-capitalist
fever-dream premise about the assassination of Bill Gates, created heavy
buzz all up and down Park City's ski slopes before it even premiered.
The film itself is more than just a novel premise, going off in myriad
unexpected directions and setting something of a high bar for the
mockumentary subgenre."
WIRED.COM:
"As a pseudo documentary, 'Nothing So Strange' is pitch perfect, more
closely resembling Errol Morris' crime film 'The Thin Blue Line' than
'This Is Spinal Tap'. And it comes with a brilliant and ingenious
Internet component -- an entire Web universe of memorials to Bill Gates
and conspiracy theorist sites."
SALON.COM:
"The irony was that while the powerful studios and distributors were
swarming over Sundance, many of the best discoveries were two miles up
the mountainside in the relative obscurity of the alternative Slamdance
festival, which has recaptured much of the youthful, scrappy spirit that
Sundance had before it became so absurdly famous. Slamdance had this
year's best hope for emulating the cultish following of 'The Blair Witch
Project.' It was 'Nothing So Strange,' a fictional film about the
internal politics in an activist group investigating the conspiratorial
coverup of the assassination of Microsoft's Bill Gates. The film, which
pretends to be a documentary, is an homage to classics of the
documentary genre, such as Erroll Morris' legendary 'The Thin Blue
Line.' It picks up brilliantly on the strange culture of conspiracy
theorists, drawing inspiration from the JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King
cases and from LAPD scandals such as Rampart."
BOSTON PHOENIX:
"Nothing So Strange. It’s the perfect title for Brian Flemming’s
brilliant, one-of-a-kind faux documentary.
indieWIRE:
"It's a mock documentary of the first order, with a verisimilitude that
rivals Christopher Guest's films. It's also a major investigation of
group dynamics, a perfect subject for a culture where special interests
rule the roost."
"Uncomfortably realistic."
--New York Post
"Chilling."
--Seattle Times
"Controversial and eerily realistic."
--Drudge Report
