August 12, 2004
Watching Deadroom last night for the first time since the DMA screening (Yen's got the whole story on his site), I found myself agonizingly aware of every passing minute. I still think it's great, and I love how that's something that surprises me every time I see it; I'm always expecting the worst, I guess, unwilling to believe that we made a good movie, and I always end up impressed. But at the same time, it's rather painful to watch it because I just know it so well now. Every single beat; I can practically count the seconds remaining in every scene and it just starts to drag interminably after 30 minutes. But of course that's just me. Peter Jackson mentioned on the Two Towers commentary that he wished he could hypnotize himself into temporarily forgetting he made the films, so he could look at them with an outsider's perspective, and that would be really helpful for future viewings of our film too.
Yen also brought up the interesting point that a movie like this works much better with an audience. I agree, although I'm not quite sure why. Probably some touchy-feely reason that I'd rather not think about.
There are a lot of great films about to come out; fall movie season must have started early (the weather, too, has dropped down to the 80s -- I can actually go running during the day). I'm not expecting the new Exorcist movie to be anything special, though, especially after reading this absolutely must-read article from the LA Weekly. At least Paul Schrader seems to have a good attitude about it, and at least we may get to see his movie someday -- it sounds horrifyingly good.
I found this article via the site that I'm now reading first thing every morning, Green Cine Daily. Seriously, there's so much good stuff here on a daily basis that it could keep you busy for hours if you followed every link. If you're trying to write a screenplay right now, maybe you shouldn't check it out. Oh, and they're not the only ones who've kindly plugged Deadroom lately -- Dark Horizons, the first site I ever bookmarked when I first got the internet back in the nineties, gave us a small but welcome mention in yesterday's update.
Posted by David Lowery at August 12, 2004 5:34 PM
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How coincidental. You were only pondering the release of "Eros" the other day and, bam, the next thing we know its website's up and running. Should be rather interesting. I'm rather looking forward to it...
Posted by: Matt at August 13, 2004 12:48 AM
For those wondering the website can be found right here. The stills from Antonioni's segment and Wong Kar Wai's segments are particularly enticing...regarding the latter, though, any still frame from a film that Chris Doyle's shot is going to be enticing.
Posted by: Ghostboy at August 13, 2004 1:13 AM
Hmmm, guess I don't have HTML code activated for these comments. That address again: http://www.fandango.it/eros/main.htm
Posted by: Ghostboy at August 13, 2004 1:14 AM