As Smart As They Are: The Author Project

As Smart As They Are: The Author Project

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 23, 2005

Runtime

1h 3m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

As Smart As They Are: The Author Project

Director

Joe Pacheco

Description

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.