All of this bloats the movie, but more than that it’s hard to escape the feeling that Weide is basically showing off, flaunting how cool it was to be friends with the great man. Here’s an actual mention of Weide in one of Vonnegut’s final books. Here are the heirloom Victorian candlesticks that Kurt gave Weide and his wife, Laurie, for their wedding. Look, there they are, arms around each other’s backs, posing for another photo.
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It’s clear in the movie - too clear - that he’s immensely flattered by how close he got to Vonnegut. Weide, who comes on as a brainiac mensch, seems to feed off the attention of a certain breed of caustically funny showman-artist (in addition to his bond with Larry David, he has been Woody Allen’s most ardent defender). And that, in a way, is the problem with that side of the film. The two became pals, though Weide never lost his awestruck view of Vonnegut. But Weide also keeps telling us the completely unnecessary backstory of how he put together his long-delayed documentary, and the main motivation for this seems to be to chronicle his friendship with Vonnegut.
Weide has a lot of great footage, and he had shot incisive interviews with Vonnegut and his family members that’s what gives “Unstuck in Time” its satisfying period texture. He picked up the project decades later, long after Vonnegut had died (in 2007).
Vonnegut said yes, and the filming commenced, with Weide following the author around to public appearances, interviewing him on Amtrak trains, and amassing a mountain of footage. Weide (pronounced why-dee) got turned onto Vonnegut in high school, which is when so many people discover him (for a long time, Vonnegut was to high school what Ingmar Bergman was to college), and in 1982, when Weide was 23, he sent a letter to Vonnegut asking if he’d cooperate in the making of a movie about him. Weide, the film’s co-director (who is best known as the executive producer and Emmy-winning director of the first five seasons of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”), first started to work on his film about Vonnegut 40 years ago. Join journalist Sam Peters as she searches for answers behind the legends of the Ashanti people in Ghana.But the film is also a documentary about the making of a documentary.
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