being there
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Being There Secret Movie Club screens Hal Ashby’s 1979 comedy-drama starring Peter Sellers as a simple-minded gardener who inadvertently becomes the toast of the town in Washington, D.C.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2019
Being There 13: An aging simpleton with a child’s understanding of the world is presented as a presidential candidate — and wins!
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018
There is something of the Dostoevskian holy idiot, the existential Being There naïf in Wonder, and nowhere so much as in his gloop.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2016
The 1920 film The Mark of Zorro and Peter Sellers' 1979 comedy Being There have also been chosen for preservation at the Library of Congress.
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2015
Between The Landlord and Being There in 1980 Ashby offered a totally coherent artistic sensibility; his body of work both remarkably diverse, but unmistakably his own.
From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2012
