What an excellent front-pager for ISI Books’ new “guide to 100 politically incorrect movies”:
Like all effective satires, this film is subtle enough to be misinterpreted by the terminally obtuse. Although it was blasted as an attack on American life by a reviewer for the neoconservative Claremont Review of Books, director Payne is attacking only the more tawdry aspects of our culture from what can only be described as an independent perspective. (In one scene, shrewd observers have even discerned a copy of the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles among Schmidt’s reading matter.)… [more]
The film? “About Schmidt,” a marvelous movie which in this viewer’s humble opinion shows off Jack Nicholson’s virtuoso versatility. The man is in a class by himself on today’s silver screen.
The site is eminently searchable and promotes ISI’s new title, God, Man, and Hollywood: Politically Incorrect Cinema from The Birth of a Nation to The Passion of the Christ, by Mark Royden Winchell — a Clemson U. English prof who unfortunately died a few weeks ago, a quick search discovers. R.I.P.
Blithe Spirit 
I TOO LIKED THE FILM AND LIKED NICHSOLSON…AS FOR POLITICAL UNDERTONES, I’D SAY THOSE REVIEWERS ARE REACHING…IT SEEMS TO BE MORE A POWERFUL STUDY OF OUR SPECIES NOT OUR POLITICS
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