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\nVERY SEMI-SERIOUS\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>
\nHBO Films<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong>
\nGrade: A-<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Leah Wolchok<\/strong>
\nWritten by: Leah Wolchok<\/strong>
\nCast: Bob Mankoff, David Remnick, Roz Chast, Mort Gerberg, Liana Finck<\/strong>
\nScreened at: HBO, NYC, 9\/9\/15<\/strong>
\nOpens:\u00a0 November 20, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was taking freshman English with Professor Charles Vivian<\/a> in 1954, I had an assignment the likes of which I never experienced before.\u00a0 We were asked to write a one-page interpretation of a cartoon in the New Yorker magazine, a periodical that I\u2019d heard about only vaguely.\u00a0 I flipped the pages and chose one by Charles Addams, perhaps the most prolific cartoonist for that magazine during the fifties.\u00a0 In those days there was no Internet with which to copy information so I was on my own.\u00a0 During the private conference with Dr. Vivian, the professor asked whether I\u2019d ever heard of Addams, since some knowledge of the man would be advisable if one is interpreting one of his works.\u00a0 \u201cWrite what you know.\u201d\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know.\u00a0 But however na\u00efve my interpretation of the cartoon, that day in \u201954 inspired me not only to find out more about the artist, famous for his darkly-humous, macabre characters, and even more important, I became a regular subscriber to the New Yorker.<\/p>\n

It was with special excitement that I attended a pre-opening screening of \u201cVery Semi-Serious,\u201d an HBO documentary<\/a> about New Yorker cartoons\u2014now featuring about fifteen such drawings per issue and a touchstone for cartoons since its birth in February 1925 when the magazine sold on the stands for 25 cents. (It\u2019s now $7.99.)\u00a0 My anticipation was rewarded.\u00a0 \u201cVery Semi-Serious\u201d is just that: serious drawings designed to make readers laugh, including some on the subject matter of Death personified by an Ingmar Bergman style black-cloaked figure carrying a scythe.\u00a0 Unlike what we see in a Bergman feature like \u201cThe Seventh Seal,\u201d Death is funny, and the human beings with whom he walks away meet their fate with bemusement but not rage.<\/p>\n

Leah Wolchok\u2019s doc,which serves as a funny, uplifting look behind the scenes at the cartoon department is a delight.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to be a New Yorker reader to understand the cartoons, some of which are not altogether simple, but it helps. It helps not because you need to be familiar with the New Yorker<\/a> but because if you read it regularly, you\u2019re the kind of person who is drawn to this classy periodical and hence to its cartoons.<\/p>\n

A large part of the movie\u2019s delight is its narration. Bob Mankoff<\/a>, a prolific cartoonist who became the head of that department, emcees the film, demonstrating conferences he holds with both veterans of the field and newbies.\u00a0 The magazine pays $500 for each accepted cartoon, but the competition is fierce.\u00a0 Mankoff receives \u201chundreds\u201d of entries each week by mail and by personal conference, spends a few seconds thumbing through each, and by some kind of osmosis picks the lucky fifteen.\u00a0 One must wonder at some of the choices, however.\u00a0 One cartoon shows a man who wakes up with his frightened wife to tell her \u201cit\u2019s the dog,\u201d the drawing showing the family dog opening the window like a burglar.\u00a0 But other cartoons are a gem.\u00a0 Mankoff\u2019s favorite, one whose caption became the title of his memoir, shows a potential boss on the phone telling the caller, \u201cHow about never.\u00a0 Is never good for you?\u201d<\/p>\n

To call \u201cVery Semi-Serious\u201d an eighty-three minute product placement for the New Yorker would be insulting, however true.\u00a0 The magazine is probably one of our classiest, on par with the Atlantic and The New York Review of Books.\u00a0 There are doubtless people who don\u2019t relate to most of the articles\u2014some of the fiction virtually requires that the readers be upper-middle class and the ads for Lexis, diamond engagement rings and bespoke suits serve little more than to arouse envy among people who can ill afford these luxuries.\u00a0 And there may be quite a few who cannot understand what\u2019s funny about many of the cartoons.\u00a0 But not an issue goes by without a reader\u2019s finding at least some to be uproarious, and if not uproarious at least wildly original.\u00a0 \u201cVery Semi-Serious\u201d is itself an original.<\/p>\n

Unrated.\u00a0 83 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 A-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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