http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/ en-us 2012-05-16T15:22:47-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2012/05/intake.html Today we are two months out from the first day of principal photography. There's a tentativeness to that outlook, to be sure, but it's growing less and less severe. I'm working from home today, keeping quiet before heading to NY... David Lowery 2012-05-16T15:22:47-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2012/04/sailor_bear_1.html You can't beat having a team like this.... David Lowery 2012-04-28T11:10:17-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2012/04/sarah_jaffe_glo.html Toby and I were lucky enough to have the chance to direct the first music video for Sarah Jaffe's amazing new album, The Body Wins. We had an entirely different concept we were in prep for, which was going to... David Lowery 2012-04-27T11:56:43-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2012/04/post_15.html It's been almost three months since I last wrote something here. I haven't taken a break like that since I was 19. Lots of catching up to do.... David Lowery 2012-04-21T13:59:08-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2012/01/post_13.html I left Sundance on Thursday, and am still waiting to get home. Toby and I flew straight to Las Vegas to shoot one of those things we shoot to pay the bills for two days, which immediately put so much... David Lowery 2012-01-29T01:47:54-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2012/01/hells_bells.html Photo by James M. Johnston. I leave for the airport and Sundance in about four hours, and I'm still up trying to squeeze in as much work on this thing we shot last week as I can. It's a... David Lowery 2012-01-12T23:51:35-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2012/01/january_firsts.html I spent a few minutes perusing old annular writings and found this entry that I actually like quite a bit. I was telling someone recently that I almost I trust my writing enough to try my hand at writing fiction;... David Lowery 2012-01-01T02:50:34-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2011/12/the_ross_bros_o.html One of my sheerest pleasures these past two months has been the weekly installments of the Ross Brothers' series about their adventures on the Mississippi. Bill and Turner, who made the wonderful 45365, set out with their other brother Al... David Lowery 2011-12-31T12:30:32-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2011/12/best_of_2011.html This year I celebrated ambition, regardless of whether it was directed inward or out, and so the films whose experiences, messy though they may be, remain affixed most firmly in my head should but one come as no surprise. In... David Lowery 2011-12-31T02:11:38-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2011/12/lookbook_1.html Reference images, these ones from one of my top-five favorite movies:... David Lowery 2011-12-29T20:05:28-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2011/12/when_a_delay_is.html They say you won't get an agent in Hollywood until you don't need one, which when you're first starting off is a truism that is difficult to accept. By that same token, I sent one of my first scripts off... David Lowery 2011-12-22T12:52:21-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2011/12/fortnight_journ.html I was invited not too long ago to contribute to the new issue of Fortnight Journal, a quarterly online compendium of millennial talent. There are all sorts of fascinating people featured here - beekeepers, cartographers, morticians - and I'm... David Lowery 2011-12-12T23:29:20-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2011/12/house_of_pleasu.html The above split-screen is probably my favorite frame from Bertrand Bonello's House Of Pleasures, formerly and more appropriately titled House Of Tolerance. It's an easy one to pick, although hard to call the best when a film is as... David Lowery 2011-12-09T01:23:54-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2011/12/marathon.html One of the few later goals for which I've ever had an age-related time limit was to run a marathon before I turned 30. Given that I've had that same number of years to come to terms with my... David Lowery 2011-12-05T19:40:31-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2011/11/we_need_to_talk.html We Need To Talk About Kevin confounded my expectations from the very first shot. This is appropriate, as the first shot is a useful vantage point from which to consider Lynn Ramsay's intentions: a vast overhead tableau of a... David Lowery 2011-11-30T19:58:57-06:00