May 16, 2008
Travelling Light
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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May 12, 2008
The Last Month
It's been a good one.
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May 5, 2008
Five Stars from Film Threat
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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May 4, 2008
And also...
...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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May 3, 2008
Variety!
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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May 1, 2008
The Lowery/Safdie Special at The Maryland Film Festival
One festival I am going to, through strange channels of convenience, is the Maryland Film Festival, where Catalog is continuing its string of festival appearances alongside Benny Safdie's The Aquaintances Of A Lonely John. Our films have developed a strong bond since first playing together at Slamdance; it'll be great to see the kinship continue in yet another city. We're in Shorts Block Three, and we're screening on Friday, May 2 at 5:30pm and the following Sunday at 11:00am. Also in this block is Andy Betzer's wonderful Small Apartment.
I'm hitching an Amtrak to Baltimore tomorrow afternoon. James is flying in with Merrrily, Merrily and a lot other friends will be there too. It'll be a nice weekend of hanging out, watching films (I'm especially excited to finally have the chance to see Ramin Baharani's Chop Shop) and pretending I don't need to go back to the hotel room and get as much cut on St. Nick as humanly possible.
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