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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: April 16, 2014, 11:33 pm
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Just ordered a whole buttload of movie tickets for the film
festival. Got a bit expensive but whatever, it's once a year.
There's gonna be days where I'll just be LIVING in that dang
theater. Gonna take my sketchbook with me this year so I can
note down all my thoughts between showings instead of trying to
retain it all in my head like an idiot.
I'm REALLY excited for one flick, "Before I Disappear," I had NO
idea that it existed-- a feature-length remake of the wonderful
short film "Curfew" that one the Oscar a couple years ago.
Totally psyched to see that. Got some very high expectations.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 17, 2014, 12:17 am
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What film festival is this? And don't forget to take pics and
post em!
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: April 17, 2014, 12:46 am
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Nashville Film Festival. I'm taking my camera but I'm not sure
what I'm going to get a picture of.
NINE DAYS of programming. I'm in for 7. I'm trying to see the
stuff that might not get distribution. So a lot of shorts. And
my sister worked on two movies, "Boulevard" with Robin Williams
(and Bob Odenkirk, I was so jealous when I found out) and The
Identical, which is in rush so I might not be able to get
tickets.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 17, 2014, 7:46 am
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Very cool. Have fun with that. I'm sure you're gonna have a
blast!! :)
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: April 19, 2014, 12:12 am
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Before I Disappear
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Unfortunately, there isn't a trailer for this one yet, but dang,
this was good, and I don't want to say too much about it because
I don't want to ruin it and I have an early day tomorrow (ten in
the morning, what am I, amish?), but the film follows f*cked-up
drug addict Richie's suicide attempt is interrupted by a call
that his straight-laced sister has been arrested and she needs
him to pick up his niece and take care of her.
The filmmakers followed the formula and style of the original
short to a T (why wouldn't you, it won an Oscar!) and it's
insane how accurate the film is to the original, there are shots
and whole sequences that look like they could have been lifted
out of the original (but they couldn't have, since the actress
had grown up a considerable bit between filming the two). And
of course, they kept the scene where she dances in the bowling
alley (the SAME bowling alley), which I'm happy about b/c it was
one of my favourite moments in the original.
I'm pretty darn sure this is going to get some kind of release.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 19, 2014, 7:26 am
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How many films do you have lined up for today?
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: April 19, 2014, 8:00 am
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Three programs of short films in the afternoon. This morning I
have a workshop thing about auditioning. Should be interesting.
Oh god, the short films last night, some were good, some
weren't, but some *sshole made a last-minute change in his film
and didn't check the finished product off the edit bay before
submitting it (I assume a different copy made it through the
selection process) because about three minutes into the movie,
the audio and video go out of sync by a WHOLE MINUTE. And the
characters would spend all this time talking and then not saying
anything, so you had silence with their mouths moving and
dialogue with their mouths shut. We had to sit through the
whole thing like that.
So the first big thing I learned from the festival this year is
ALWAYS WATCH YOUR EXPORTED FILE THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH BEFORE
SENDING IT OFF. I didn't ask any of the filmmakers who were
there yet if they did this (because I didn't want to be a snarky
*sshole), but I guarantee everyone in that showing will do that
in the future.
BTW, both movies I've been to so far, someone asks me if I'm a
filmmaker. I must have that vibe.
#Post#: 27719--------------------------------------------------
Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 19, 2014, 8:07 am
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I anxiously await the moment I get to sit down and watch your
stripper movie. So, you're already a film maker whether you
agree with that or not, even if you haven't shot a roll of film
yet. As for the film that went out of sync, it's something that
gets under my skin, one that would have prompted me to get up
and walk out. I wouldn't have wasted my time on a film if the
director had done quality check on the final product. You
clearly have more patience then me.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: April 20, 2014, 12:59 am
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Well, there were more shorts after that. And amazingly enough,
it happened AGAIN in two more programs. It's nuts.
I will say, the OMG WTF movies this year weren't as WTF as I
remember, they used to be really nuts. Normally it's the home
to really messed up stuff, the sort of films that are like part
of a recovery program for people in mental hospitals and it
shows and it's awesome, but we didn't have much of that this
year. Now we did get to see Michael Cera empty his p*ss bag
into a toilet and wipe it off on his hands, Amanda Seyfried feed
a dog to a guy, Sammy Davis Jr give an HJ to a dying fat guy
hooked up to a life support machine, and Michelle Rodriguez
staba guy in neck with a dart, but it was TAME. It was so
tame, man. There was one time we had a short film that I think
was literally trying to drive you insane and shorts that were so
clearly induced by drugs YOU needed to enter a 12-step program.
But that's all slowly going away.
The kids shorts, "Grow Up Already," those were good, a little on
the... not on the mature side, but it was ABOUT kids, not
necessarily FOR kids. Which made it feel a little awkward
because this little girl was sitting next to me... literally,
THIS little girl was sitting next to me...
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...and every time someone would curse (which was often) or a
character cut themselves intentionally or anything like that
(which there was plenty of), I kept checking to make sure she
was okay. And the cutting thing I mentioned before, it was part
of this film that had some really f*cking creepy ghost crawlies
that pulled out people's eyeballs and stuff and climbed on walls
and turned into big clouds of soot, and you KNOW she's never
going to remember the film but she will NEVER forget those
freaking demons crawling on the ceiling. They'll lie low, lurk
somewhere in the back of her memory and chill until she's a
teenager and a random passing association will bring it all back
and she will see these horrible things and have no idea why.
Anyway, this girl, Amelia, was IN one of the movies, not just IN
but the main character, totally silent performance, she was
good, but I was just fascinated by HER, I was talking to her
from the moment she sat down until the first film started and I
just couldn't wrap my head around it, you know? "Oh, so was
this made by someone you know, or...?" "No, I'm a professional
actress." "How old are you?" "Eleven." Jesus! And her little
sister was sitting next to her, I asked "is she an actress too?"
and Amelia just goes "no."
This is the trailer for the film she was in, and she was still
that tiny today. And I had to see her watch a movie where a
beached whale gets cut up.
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I spoke to a couple other young actor/actresses today and it's
so WEIRD, especially compared to what *I* was like when I was 11
or 16, me, I'd want all evidence of my teenage years erased,
like juvenile records they should be sealed, and they're not
just letting it all out there, but they're so professional and
career minded it's MIND boggling to me. I feel so old AND
immature at the same time!
Amelia, the little girl, asked me if I was a filmmaker, as did
SO many people that I spoke to, and I just now say "writer,"
they ask "are we about to watch yours?" "No, I don't have
anything this year." And I get this vibe of... you know when
you're in a band performing at a show and the audience is just
the other bands? I feel like the short film makers are
expecting that, and that kinda sucks.
You know, I'm getting cards and I'm making connections, which is
awesome, so hopefully when the time is right to do a little
project I can be like "hey, what if we did this?" and get a lot
of "yeah, let's do that!"
I went to a audition panel and, dude, I'm a decent looking guy
and I was rocking the jacket and was looking d a m n fine if I
may say so myself, I went into that room and I was the ugliest
dude by a MILE. WOW. I've never been amongst more photogenic
people in my life. And tall, I was talking to one girl, Ryn,
after the show, I thought she was seventeen, eighteen... she was
thirteen and she was taller than ME! VERY few girls are taller
than me. It was strange.
#Post#: 27744--------------------------------------------------
Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 20, 2014, 6:49 am
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Great review dude. Thanks for the update. I know there are
genuine film lovers like yourself that go to festivals for the
joy of discovery. But festivals by nature are really just a
place to network with other like minded people looking to sell
or find work. So, I think it's only natural that everyone in
attendance expects the person next to them to have "something"
up on screen that day. Speaking of which, did you know that the
kid next to you was in the movie you were about to watch? Or
were you just making small talk about the festival and then
realize the kid next to you was THE star once the film began and
do a double take?
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