August 26, 2004
I've been reading with admiration and some envy (okay, make that a lot of envy, but, as always, the good kind) the journeys of the Dear Pillow crew at the Edinburgh Film Festival. It's great to see their film take off the way it is. I probably shouldn't be reading about it, though, because it's making me really impatient. We did get contacted by a small theatrical distributor the other day -- a minor but welcome bit of attention which nonetheless doesn't compare to the attention of audiences watching your film in exotic locales.
If you're in New York or LA this weekend, you know what movie you need to go see. But if you have to wait until next week or the week after, then you should go see the director's cut of Donnie Darko this weekend. I saw it tonight and was astounded, freqeuntly enraptured, etc. It felt like a movie I'd never seen before.
Before Jim got on the plan back to La La Land today, he entrusted me with one of the DigiBeta master of his film, just for insurance. It got me thinking: I have all of the Deadroom footage, the hard drive with every cut, and basically every other possible element of the film within a five foot radius in my room. I need to parcel that stuff out. You never know when your house might blow up
Posted by David Lowery at August 26, 2004 3:06 AM