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May 7, 2009
Just To Reiterate
St. Nick will be playing on Friday at 12:45pm at the Maryland Film Festival; tickets and more informaiton can be found here. Come see it if you're in town, and afterward follow me Pied Piper-style out of the theater and across the street to my panel on the relationship between directors and editors, which will then be a perfect segue into seeing the film I edited, Kris Swanberg's It Was Great But I Was Ready To Come Home, at 3:00, right back where we started at the lovely Charles Theater.
I was excited to see that the lineup also includes Michelange Quay's Eat, For This Is My Body, which has sat heavily on my consciousness since I saw it last year at Sundance (I wrote about it here). It's definitely a big screen experience, and I'm looking forward to seeing it again. Also very much worth watching is Zack Clark's Modern Love Is Automatic, which, for all its stylistic affectations, deadpan humor and punk rock interstitials, achieves a really haunting sense of alienation that is difficult to shake; I laughed a lot during it, but those laughs all dissipate by the distended and awkward final scene, which turns an easy joke on its head and closes the film on a note of quiet desperation. And Invisible Girlfriend, the latest documentary from David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, is a surreal and vibrant odyssey that is up there with the works of Lodge Kerrigan as a window into paranoid schizophrenia.
But most importantly, I think, is that this festival will play host to Room Service French Fry Party, vol. 2. An unforgettable event for those lucky enough to attend!
Posted by David Lowery at May 7, 2009 3:08 AM