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April 12, 2006
Soma
I knew that as soon as I started to impelent headings in my posts, I'd get lazy and just use the title of whatever song I might be listening to, instead of taking a few moments to come up with something that's literally relevant. Oh well. I generally do the same thing with screenplay titles, too.
You'll have to forgive my lack of a substantive presence here for the time being; there are many things I want to write about, as always, but I'm having to divide my time quite a bit these days on various filmmaking issues. I'm fine tuning all the raw elements of The Outlaw Son; color correction is pretty much done, and last night and tonight I recorded some ADR monologues and one-man foley (I'll tell you, it's hard to record the sound of bootsteps when the boots are two sizes too small for your feet). I'll finally get some serious editing underway with that film next week, once I've finished the nearly feature length documentary I'm currently cutting for the Deadroom DVD. And whenever I'm tired of editing, I can turn to this screenplay that really needs to be done by May 1. I'm not the best multi-tasker; every day this past week, I've had to force myself to find stopping points on each project, so that I can move onto the next one. I'm glad we put off editing GDMF until May. By that point, I'll have hopefully finished at least one of these projects, and hopefully have started no more than two new ones.
There is, of course, all that schoolwork to get in the way, too. Luckily, a week of Easter vacation starts today - just in time for me to join the crew of Clay Liford's new film, which starts shooting bright and early tomorrow morning. Rigging lights on a greenscreen grid will be a nice change of pace from staring at this monitor. If only the call time weren't so rapidly approaching!
I'll have some better, legitimately opinionated writing coming soon. I promise. In the meantime, let me make a few brief and exclamatory cinematic admonitions:
- Go see the Dardenne Brothers' L'Enfant! And Brick! One is much better than the other, but still, they're the best films I've seen so far this year (that have distribution).
- And if you're in a city that's playing Caveh's I Am A Sex Addict, go see that too, and make me jealous. The same naturally goes for another IFC release, Drawing Restraint 9, although I don't know if it's as important to turn that one into a box office phenomenon.
- If you're in the mood for some reading, as you very well should be, I suggest you savor the fascinating articulation between these two pieces - one by Chris Fujiwara, the other by Harry Tuttle of Screenvision - on Tsai Ming Liang's second greatest film, The Wayward Cloud.
- Then turn to Steven Shaviro's wonderfully prolix take on V For Vendetta. Which reminds me that Dennis Cozzalio responded to my post on that film with a second one of his own, also very much worth reading.
Okay, what am I really supposed to be doing right now?
Posted by David Lowery at April 12, 2006 11:36 PM
Comments
What's the greatest Tsai film? Just curious.
Posted by: Darren at April 13, 2006 10:46 AM
haha! prepare to be jealous!
Posted by: brad at April 13, 2006 11:27 AM
Darren - a lot of people think his greatest actually is The Wayward Cloud, and sometimes I agree with them - but more often, my preference lies with Goodbye Dragon Inn. Call me sentimental (although I almost love it more for its lack of incident than I do for its romanticization of movies).
Brad - let me know what you think!
Posted by: Ghostboy at April 13, 2006 08:03 PM
definitely...
saturday is brick, sunday is i am a sex addict. it's going to be a good weekend.
Posted by: brad at April 13, 2006 08:34 PM
Seven months later, I still haven't decided what to think of The Wayward Cloud. My favorite is also a sentimental choice -- What Time Is It There?
Posted by: Darren at April 16, 2006 01:39 PM