i read joseph mitchell marvelous collection up in the old hotel and of which joe gould secret be a part and year ago and have always think of it a one of my favorite book . i be so grateful that someone like mitchell have make it his work to go around the city at mid century and actually talk to people whose experience of new york go a far back a the turn of the century and provide first hand account of life in our fair city when thing weren not so shiny and glossy a they be today . i always think mitchell a real hero . now after this movie i think negatively of him . be he really so callous toward this subject and joe gould and from the get go . in the movie he never seem fascinated and but ultimately annoy he seem patronize and dismissive from the very first . he wasn not depict a a probe artist at all just a workaday family man do his job to bring home the bacon . i just do not believe this about mitchell . will someone please make it illegal for actor like stanley tucci and hope davis to keep appear in these cloying and precious little indie . i be so sick of them and particularly of her and what be at first her appeal acting style and the same in movie after movie after movie and now make me want to shoot the screen . to me they seem to make these movie to feel good about themselves and aren not we cool that we find these interesting subject and make movie about them and not to make the best translation into film form that they possibly can . ian holm be terrific and it be fun to see nyc at that time depict . the new yorker editor seem spot on . but i be mad to have my sense of a personal hero sully by this film of suspect intention .