
Bud Fisher’s sole venture beyond the comic strip panel, I’m Ringing Your Party, is a 12-reel fever dream that feels as if someone shoved L’enfant prodigue’s biblical guilt into the grinder with the anarchic piston of Caught in the Act, then sprinkled the residue over a switchboard. Shot on orthochromatic stock that tu...


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" Bud Fisher’s sole venture beyond the comic strip panel, I’m Ringing Your Party, is a 12-reel fever dream that feels as if someone shoved L’enfant prodigue’s biblical guilt into the grinder with the anarchic piston of Caught in the Act, then sprinkled the residue over a switchboard. Shot on orthochromatic stock that turns every champagne bubble into a black comet, the picture opens with an iris-in on a Bakelite telephone whose bell has been replaced by a human tongue. That single image is the Ro..."


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