January 20, 2006
As of this writing, Caveh Zahedi's website states that anyone who is "interested in screening I Am a Sex Addict, or helping to set up a screening" is welcome to contact Caveh and, presumably, set up said screening. I was going to do just this later in the spring, after SXSW - partially to support Caveh's self distribution effort, but mostly, selfishly, because I am so incredibly desperate to see his film.
But now the work will be done for me: Sujewa e-mailed me this afternoon to let me know that IFC has picked up the film and will be releasing it this spring. Between this and the aforementioned news about Drawing Restraint 9, is it safe to say that IFC in 2006 is what Lions Gate was in 2003? Except better?
If you're in the DFW area this weekend, don't miss the Theater Fire performance at the Sound Picture installation on Saturday. If it's as good as the program description, we should be in for an outstanding hour of multimedia.
Neither should you miss The New World, which finally opens wide today. Once I see it again, I'll be writing about it at length; and about Tristram Shandy as well, although whether I have those pieces done in a timely fashion is up in the air. I've a few revisions to do on the script from which this blog's name is derived (one of the names, at least); and I'm twenty pages into a new screenplay as well, one which I'm afraid to let sit for too long. Regarding this latter project, which I impetuously jumped into the other day: it's refreshing to write a film for someone else, while still maintaining complete creative carte blanche (at least for the first draft). In other words - it's nice to be trusted.
Posted by David Lowery at January 20, 2006 02:36 AM
Comments
Look forward to Sex Addict with fervour, David, with fervour you've never looked forward with before. Look forward with that fervour.
Posted by: Matt at January 20, 2006 04:47 AM
Is Sex Addict being put out by IFC this spring? Did not know. Cool if so, makes sense. BTW,that sentence is kind of interesting: "is sex addict being put out by ifc this spring?". i must take it to the word lab & see why.
sujewa
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Posted by: Sujewa at January 20, 2006 12:22 PM
Hmmm. I think I made that part up.
Posted by: Ghostboy at January 20, 2006 07:47 PM
OK. I do not know when Sex Addict will get to theaters. But I am sure we'll know as soon as they (IFC) makes that decision.
Posted by: Sujewa at January 21, 2006 04:54 AM
The New World = cinema as a drug
I totally dug it. Going back for a second helping this week.
I think the high the film creates comes in part from the combination of the music & the shots of nature/sunlight combined w/ camera movement. And of course the life or death situations the characters find themselves in. The flick is both emotionally epic and visually epic - neither in a cheesy way, in an often surprising way.
In the acting there is definitely a "not-knowing-what-is-going-to-happen-next" conveyed by the actors to us - even though we know their story - the story of the characters - a historical, relatively well documented event becomes fresh, involves us in a process of discovery.
Here's my post re: it for more:
http://filmmakingforthepoor.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-world-is-excellent.html
Sujewa
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Posted by: The Sujewa at January 23, 2006 06:30 PM