In “You Can Call Me Bill,” Shatner sits under the hot lights, with the camera close to his face, talking, talking, and talking - about life, death, acting, fame, love, desolation, and trees. The movie is built around an interview with the legendary 91-year-old actor, still vigorous and voluble, with a seize-the-day cornball glow to him. So if you go into his new movie, which is all about William Shatner, presuming that it’s going to be something other than a conventional portrait of William Shatner, you’d be quite correct. George Lucas,” “Lynch/Oz”), what he’s always looking for is the heady ineffable curveball insight. Philippe often leans into horror (“Memory: The Origins of Alien,” “Doc of the Dead,” and his greatest film, “78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene”), but even with other subjects (“The People vs. Philippe, who specializes in plucking tasty subjects out of the pop cosmos and doing deep-dive meditations on them.
“ You Can Call Me Bill” is the latest documentary from director Alexandre O.
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