October 29, 2005
The Festivities Continue...
I helped my little sisters put together costumes for their Halloween party. Mary Margaret (age 10), went as a depressed punk rock kid, complete with a tie, safety pins and my Chuck Taylors (three sizes to big for her).
Sometime later, I went over to Curtis and Valerie's house, where we ate dinner while listening to a bizarrely pornographic haunted house sound effects record. Our plans for the evening consisted of making a short seasonal piece of cinema. We spent about six hours shooting it, managing to freak ourselves out fairly consistently in the process. While we worked, we watched Lucio Fulci's simultaneously idiotic and epic masterpiece, The Beyond. We'd been hoping to finish in time to go catch the midnight show of Evil Dead II at the Inwood, but time slipped away from us.
Once we had wrapped up this work of morbid creativity, I went home to edit it. It turned out beautifully - all three seconds of it! I'm hoping to have it online for viewing, in all of its abbreviated glory, on Monday.
Right now, I'm closing out the day by watching one of my 'canonical' pictures: Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I think if Coppola's fourth or fifth best picture - and, as it has not a single digital effect or enhancement in it, perhaps the last great work of truly classical filmmaking, and the last time an optical printer had a really good workout (on a studio film, at least). This film and I go way back. My history with it might be good material for another post, another day: it's a long story, and tonight, I just feel like enjoying it. I will mention, however, that Wojciech Kilar's score is another one of my all-time favorites.
Tomorrow: more films, and my own Halloween costume...
Posted by David Lowery at October 29, 2005 11:59 AM
Comments
i've always LOVED Bram Stoker's Dracula..call it a guilty pleasure...
i thought i was the only one.
Posted by: brad at October 30, 2005 11:17 AM
I love Bram Stoker's Dracula too! Although, I don't think of it as a guilty pleasure. It's a damn fine film. Be proud!
I can't believe Mary Margaret is 10. I've known her more than half her life.
Posted by: jmj at October 30, 2005 11:55 AM
I grew up to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Watched it when I was young in a small place down by Bourbon Street.
Posted by: jordan at October 30, 2005 10:12 PM