True/False Films

The Invention of Dr. NakaMats

In person: director Kaspar Astrup Schroder

Sneak preview. Madcap fun, à la Wes Anderson, about the utterly fantabulous 80-year-old inventor responsible for 3,357 inventions, including the floppy disk. NakaMats is an unlikely character made for the movies, with his deadpan English and impeccable comic timing providing nonstop laughs. About his Love Jet potion, he says: "I've tested more than 10,000 women. Of course, I'm not doing the sex. I'm checking meters." At a conference, he leads a sing-along of a ditty he penned to memorialize the seven hours of snow shoveling he once did to get to a university class. Utterly nutty, but also a paean to the spirit of human invention, The Invention is a rip-roaring good time. With Mr. Hypnotism (dir. Bradley Beesley; 14 min.): the hard-to-believe story of Ron Dante, con man, outlaw and, quite possibly, mad genius. (PS)

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