http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/ en-us 2010-09-02T11:37:45-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/09/act_da_fool.html Harmony Korine's new short film: As with Kanye Wests' Power (not to mention Spike Jonze's I'm Here, among others), this is a fine example of manufacturers enabling artists to their mutual benefit, and ours. Compare this to the lyrically crass... David Lowery 2010-09-02T11:37:45-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/09/reference_mater.html We did our location scout this past Sunday. Costume measurements were taken yesterday. I rewrote the script this morning. I'm sort of preparing a shot list. And I'm watching a few movies to see how certain elements have been covered... David Lowery 2010-09-01T11:41:50-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/this_profile_of.html This profile of Christiane Kubrick from The Guardian is sad and lovely. One time, she and Anya spotted me riffling through one of his old notepads in the stable block. She said: "I get very upset at seeing some of... David Lowery 2010-08-30T13:51:09-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/critiques.html I wrote a brief capsule review of R. Alverson's debut feature The Builder for Hammer To Nail. That it was a capsule was not my intention, and if it seems brief, it's because I curtailed what was originally going to... David Lowery 2010-08-27T03:21:45-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/callbacks.html David Lowery 2010-08-22T13:33:23-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/ephemera_7.html Things I'm looking forward to: The Criterion editions of The Thin Red Line and Antichrist. The Tree Of Life, obviously. Getting married. Finishing up casting on Pioneer. We've been seeing a lot of boy between the ages of four and... David Lowery 2010-08-18T09:49:00-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/ive_been_having.html I've been having the same dream a lot lately. I've never been one for recurring dreams, much less extremely literal ones, which makes this one all the more noteworthy. In this dream, I meet Roger Ebert. Sometimes it happens at... David Lowery 2010-08-15T16:55:01-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/carolinas.html Now I'm in Virginia, watching the sun set through a thunderstorm. This has been a continuation of the documentary that started in Peru. I really need to stop pretending to be a cinematographer, but it's hard when it gets you... David Lowery 2010-08-12T18:41:21-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/power.html Kanye West continues his tradition of foregoing traditional music videos in favor of working with notable artistic savants with this new piece from Marco Brambilla: My obsessive-compulsive love of chiaroscuro, prosceniums and, especially, neoclassical tableaux pretty much ensured that I'd... David Lowery 2010-08-11T19:37:28-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/alas.html I'm in Appalachia these days, in this blue strain of North Carolina mountains that's just about the most beautiful place I've ever been, and I awoke this morning to heartbreaking news. Apparently, the classic musical version of Les Miserables is... David Lowery 2010-08-10T20:57:34-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/short_films_by.html Being that I'm gearing up for this new production of mine, I've had short films on my mind again lately. One or two weeks back, I went searching for a particular little movie called The Saddest Boy In The... David Lowery 2010-08-06T14:54:21-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/576_takes_and_c.html I am not a great extemporaneous speaker. I'm not a great speaker at all, or even a good one. And so the idea of doing my own commentary track for St. Nick was one whose value seemed outweighed from the... David Lowery 2010-08-06T01:43:06-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/that_catfish_tr.html The best film I saw in Park City last January might not have been Catfish, but there's no denying that it packed the strongest punch; my jaw was on the floor for the majority of its running time. In the... David Lowery 2010-08-03T23:15:32-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/turning_down.html The other week, I got a call from an agent wondering if I'd be interested in directing a feature in Los Angeles this fall. He had a script, and a producer, and a lump sum sitting in a bank account... David Lowery 2010-08-02T21:03:05-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/07/commentary_with.html To say that the saga of preparing the St. Nick DVD is neverending implies that it's been a source of stress these past six months, when in fact it's merely been a footnote in my mental list of chores.... David Lowery 2010-07-30T22:53:37-06:00