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June 20, 2010

Audrey in Chicago & other happenings

Yesterday the edit at 102 minutes. Today's it's somewhere in the realm of 97. It's getting there.

On Thursday, I walked out of the editing suite in Park Slope, around the corner to BAM and right onto the stage for the Q&A for Lovers Of Hate, which was screening as part of the BAMCinematek festival. In truth, I hadn't known about the screening until about an hour or two prior, but I did know Bryan and company would be in town for the subsequent Rooftop Films screening, which occurred this evening and which I sat out the Q&A for, mainly because my feet hurt from racing up the six flights of stairs to catch the last half of the movie. Once again, let me state my profound admiration for Mark and Dan and the rest of the Rooftop crew. They know how to show movies.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, my beloved Audrey The Trainwreck began a brief engagement at the Gene Siskel Film Center this evening. It screens again this coming Monday and Wednesday, and if any readers happen to be in Chicago, I would implore them to check it out. The "unjustly underbuzed" stigma Karina Longworth noted at SXSW seems to have persisted, and while I believe all good pictures will eventually get their due, when they're this good I get impatient. So here, once again, is the trailer.

Meanwhile, I've been using my two hour daily train commute to catch up on some reading. I borrowed from my host's shelves a copy of Final Cut, that book about the making of Heaven's Gate, which I've always intended to read. I've also always intended to watch the movie itself. I could get it from Netflix, but I lost the envelope for the last film I received, back in April, and so once again my queue is at a standstill.

I also did some writing last night, ignoring the script I should be writing in favor of the one I want to be writing (which from my perspective actually is the one I should be writing). I wrote one scene, three of four sentences long, with no dialogue, but of the sort which then allowed me to delete the following six pages. So I feel like I actually made a lot of progress.

If this post feels a bit like a diary entry, that's because I've temporarily tired of writing intermittent essays.

Posted by David Lowery at June 20, 2010 2:04 AM