As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A famous comedian and artist wants to display his work at an art museum. Just when he thinks he has lost his touch, a series of famous comedians drop by to help him rekindle his artistic and comedic spark.Following his recent death, watching this film is my way of getting to know Jonathan. I think it worked! Robin Williams does his hackneyed, humorless bit (and Winters makes a nice remark about how Williams has overshadowed him), and Jim Carrey even shows up. In fat, Carrey's few moments on screen are quite funny to me -- which is odd, given that I am not a huge Carrey fan. He has a quick wit, and I wish we saw more of that and less of his physical comedy in films.

This film is a piece of performance art that intentionally confuses the line between fiction and reality, much as Andy Kaufman was once famous for. On the surface, this is a documentary about the desire of comedian Jonathan Winters to have his work as a painter taken seriously. Winters once spent some time in a mental hospital, so when his sanity begins to break under pressure to produce new work for a promised MoMA exhibit, viewers are left to wonder how much of his breakdown is real, and how much is a put on, as his behavior straddles a line between the frightening and ridiculous. Sadly, I fear that knowing it is all a put on prior to seeing the movie spoils much of the experience, since the film is not nearly as clever as a mere "mockumentary", as it is as an "Is He? or Isn't He?" piece of performance art.