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As Smart As They Are: The Author Project (2005)

Directed by Joe Pacheco

Documentary · 1h 03m

A documentary film tracing the collaboration between One Ring Zero, the Brooklyn house-band for McSweeney's Publishing, and an ensemble cast of award-winning authors, each of whom contributed original lyrics. Author Myla Goldberg torments guest singer Syd Straw with tongue twisting, five star vocabulary words. Paul Auster riffs on the ills of Cincinatti and the Iraq war. The film's title, in fact, comes from the inspired dialogue of a talking cockroach.

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Cast

J
Joshua Camp Himself
M
Michael Hearst Himself Paul Auster Himself Rick Moody Himself
J
Jonathan Lethem Himself Dave Eggers Himself Jonathan Ames Himself
M
Myla Goldberg Herself
D
Darin Strauss Himself
L
Lawrence Krauser Himself
A
Amy Fusselman Herself
C
Clay McLeod Chapman Himself

Crew

Director
Joe Pacheco
Writer
Joe Pacheco

Details

Release date
2005-04-23
Runtime
1h 03m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America