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14 Mar 2016, 11:02 pm

Is Asperger's Funny? A candid conversation with Mark Duplass, whose buzzy new Asperger's documentary is the toast of SXSW, and was just picked up by Netflix


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15 Mar 2016, 2:32 pm

I want to see this movie, but I suspect I shall forget about it by the time it gets on Netflix :P



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15 Mar 2016, 2:45 pm

Sooo, autism is now an indie-film punchline?!? I worked for years with Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and its Film Festival. I learned there to despise filmmakers like this. Foul-mouthed and dismissive of all people and things, but their own inflated ego. Losers all. The good news is that, unless they get employed by Comedy Central, they fade away in less than a year.


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15 Mar 2016, 6:27 pm

AspieUtah wrote:
Sooo, autism is now an indie-film punchline?!? I worked for years with Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and its Film Festival. I learned there to despise filmmakers like this. Foul-mouthed and dismissive of all people and things, but their own inflated ego. Losers all. The good news is that, unless they get employed by Comedy Central, they fade away in less than a year.


That is not at all what this film is about.
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15 Mar 2016, 7:00 pm

Ah yes, Noah Britton et al. Good people. It must have been the Esquire writing that confused me.


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