December 27, 2004
I was strolling through the West Village yesterday, on my way to the Film Forum, when it finally began to snow that wonderful sort of snow that depends as much on the architecture as the weather. So I didn't get a white Christmas, but a white birthday was just as good.
One more year until that Orson Welles/Citizen Kane watermark...
Christmas Day itself was spent ice skating in the park, followed by an afternoon viewing of The Life Aquatic, followed by dinner in the wine cellar of an Italian restaurant (the only place they could fit our whole family). Then I went home and read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, which my sister recieved as a gift and which I quickly appropriated. It's a pretty fine novel, overall, and I'm glad Peter Jackson is going to direct it; it'll be a sister film, in many ways, to Heavenly Creatures, and a strong change of pace for him after all these terrific epics.
The cat is out of the bag. If you read all of my friends' blogs, then you know that the exciting news that I was alluding to the other day is that Deadroom (which is screening tonight in Dallas, isn't it?) will be having its festival premiere at the prestigious South By Southwest Film Festival. I think we all breathed a collective sigh of relief when we head the news: someone finally wants to show our movie! And when that someone is a festival as prestigious as this one...well, it's as good a Christmas present as anything else, that's for sure.
Also, more stupifyingly, I've been invited to the Berlin Talent Campus on the strength of Drift, which I submitted when I applied in October. I'm still really surprised, when I actually stop to think about it; it's weird to finally be one of those people who gets accepted into this sort of thing. I guess I'm excited -- I am excited -- but it doesn't quite feel real.
But, unless there's a tragic series of retraction, I'll be heading to Germany in February and then down to Austin in March. 2005 should be a good travel year. Speaking of which, I need to figure out what I'm going to do here in NYC for New Years. Right now, though, I've got ten blocks to cover to get to a screening at the MoMA in half an hour.
Top ten (plus) list is coming up next...
Posted by David Lowery at December 27, 2004 04:00 PM
Comments
David, congrats on the SXSW acceptance, as well as the selection to the Berlin Talent Campus - that's great! Does that coincide with the Berlin Film Fest?
See you in Austin in March!
Posted by: Bryan Poyser at December 28, 2004 10:57 AM
Thanks Bryan! I think the Berlin thing is right after the festival, but I'll have to double check that. I'm sitting in the middle of Bryant Park right now, enjoying free wi-fi, so I guess I'll go visit their site right now...
See you soon...
dvd
Posted by: Ghostboy at December 29, 2004 01:44 PM
Well done!
So when is the Australian premiere of Deadroom going to occur? :)
Posted by: Jeremy at December 30, 2004 01:42 AM
An Australian premiere, eh? Well, in all honesty, it'll be at your house, on your DVD player, sometime within the next two years!
Posted by: Ghostboy at January 5, 2005 02:02 AM
Bloody hell, how'd I miss this news?
I was surfing around Matt's blog and here, trying to find someone who resonated with The Life Aquatic as strongly as I did at the end, and ran across your HUGE news. Congrats!!!
I, err, haven't submitted. I'm going to send them a DVD anyway and hope they remember me.
Posted by: Chuck Olsen at January 11, 2005 02:15 AM