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Few actors invoking the title of their film as a line of dialogue have had quite the shattering effect that Christopher Walken does in this 1982, hour-long film by Jonathan Demme. As the painfully, painfully shy small-town fellow who comes to vivid life as the perpetual lead in community-theater productions, Walken’s character breaks one’s heart when he is asked to give his all yet again in another thespian triumph. This time, however, things are different: he meets his female counterpart in Susan Sarandon’s equally retiring amateur actress. The two fall in love, a love most passionately expressed in the freedom of their stage lives, and Demme’s film achieves a populist grace that fills out Kurt Vonnegut’s original short story into street-level Lubitsch. One of Demme’s most irresistible works, Who Am I This Time? is pure joy. –Tom Keogh

Director Jonathan Demme, an Academy Award-winner, deftly weaves this endea (more…)

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