December 11, 2004
We met tonight for what I thought would be a Deadroom meeting full of concessions. I've pretty much accepted the fact that, as I wrote in an e-mail to the guys earlier today, this film may not "push our careers anywhere near as far as it has pushed us artistically." But the meeting was actually quite positive and productive, and it reminded me that there are many avenues we've yet to explore. Between that and the focus on all of our respective upcoming projects, it left me feeling quite optimistic; and now that I'm at home, working on more test footage that's leaving me positively ecstatic (all 2 seconds of it), all of our troubles feel like they've evaporated completely.
So I saw The Sea Inside on Tuesday, A Series Of Unfortunate Events on Wednesday, Spanglish and The Life Aquatic yesterday, Clint Eastwood's wonderful Million Dollar Baby today and will be seeing The Woodsman on Monday -- at which point I'll have seen all of the notable 2004 releases, except for The Aviator and The Phantom Of the Opera. Of those two, I'm pretty sure only the former might affect the top ten list I've alreay put together (and I'm really hoping it does). I've also missed out on a few screenings of notable foreign films like Moolade and Nobody Knows and Notre Music, but I don't know if I'll be able to catch those before the year is out. In any case, I'm on new movie overload at the moment, and it's only leaving me hungry for more.
In case you might have missed it: Tim Burton's back.
Posted by David Lowery at December 11, 2004 04:51 AM
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Whew. I'm terribly behind. I haven't had time to see movies, but I've heard it's very enjoyable.
Spanglish looks just awful - is it?
I also have the feeling that I'll be slightly disappointed by The Life Aquatic but love it thoroughly anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Olsen at December 14, 2004 03:01 AM
Yeah, Spanglish is pretty trite and awkward. And I imagine your prediction of your response to The Life Aquatic will be fairly right-on, too, and that by having predicted it thusly, the dissapointment will in fact be mitigated!
Posted by: Ghostboy at December 14, 2004 12:19 PM