Travelling Light

May 16, 2008

I was at JFK the day before yesterday and ran in to Sam, the producer of The Pleasure Of Being Robbed. "Where are you headed?" he asked. "Not where you're headed," I said. Twenty hours later, I imagine he was living it up in Cannes. I, meanwhile, was still one the same plane I boarded in New York, deliriously pushing through the final leg of what turned out to be an almost comically distended flight back to Texas. I'll be here for about three weeks, and then I'm off again. Within that interim, hopefully, I'll have a few minutes to write something of note here....

Oh, and I just got Tom Waits tickets! I've never seen him live before. I can't wait.

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The Last Month

May 12, 2008

It's been a good one.

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Five Stars from Film Threat

May 5, 2008

Don R. Lewis just reviewed Catalog for Film Threat. At the risk of being self-aggrandizing, I won't pull any quotes here. Needless to say, I'm touched. Thanks Don!

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And also...

May 4, 2008

...one audience member told me after the second screening that she'd seen my film the day before and had dreamed about it that night. And someone else saw it whose response meant more to me than pretty much any reaction I've had. So all in all, Maryland was a great film festival, even though I spent most of it holed up in the hotel room trying to decide what version of the Bosque Brown scene to put in the movie.

On the train ride back to New York this afternoon, the train was stalled for over an hour. Word got around that someone got killed in the tracks.

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Variety!

May 3, 2008

The Baltimore CityPaper seems to have reviewed every single movie screening at the Maryland Film Festival. And while they make a big factual error in their brief appraisal of my film (does my sister really look twentysomething?), they also give me a nice pullquote: "Disturbing for a variety of reasons." That works for me. So does John Waters' presence at my screening this evening.

Oh, and Benny Safdie's short The Acquaintances Of A Lonely John got into Cannes, too! Amazing!

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