http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/ en-us 2010-02-05T01:46:34-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/a_decade_old_lu.html Ten years ago today I began to shoot Lullaby, my first attempt at feature filmmaking. I was recently nineteen and had hair reaching far past my shoulders. I'd spun in my head a dozen more Proustian onsets to this entry,... David Lowery 2010-02-05T01:46:34-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/catch_the_train.html The 2010 SXSW lineup just went live, and chief among the titles I'm happy to report about is the world premiere of Frank V. Ross' Audrey The Trainwreck. As has been writ often on these pages, this film is a... David Lowery 2010-02-03T23:20:07-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/have_one_on_me.html Coming February 23rd...... David Lowery 2010-01-28T23:18:27-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/enter_the_void.html I have yet to see Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones - my opinion of the novel, compounded by the torpor of special effects so pronounced in the trailer, has not sent my scurrying to the theater -... David Lowery 2010-01-27T21:39:53-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/afterwards.html It's a remarkably pleasant thing, attending a festival in support of someone else's film. On the one hand, I feel close enough to Bryan's film that I can take enormous satisfaction and no small degree of pride in hearing people... David Lowery 2010-01-27T11:15:58-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/failure.html I'll have more to write about Sundance as a whole later on, but right now, we're ninety minutes out from the world premiere of Lovers Of Hate. I'd say that it's so surreal that it's not even surreal, except that... David Lowery 2010-01-24T16:40:06-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/lovers_of_hate_1.html Bryan's film premieres in Park City a few short days. Technically, I'm going to be there. That is to say, I have a ticket scheduled for a flight departing Friday morning. Whether I'm on it or not is the crux... David Lowery 2010-01-20T19:10:55-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/more_shooting.html Alas, no municipal government intervention this time. Now on to the stop-motion part.... David Lowery 2010-01-18T13:52:27-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/accumulation.html French president Nicholas Sarkozy had this to say about Eric Rohmer's passing yesterday: "Classic and romantic, wise and iconoclastic, light and serious, sentimental and moralistic, he created the ‘Rohmer’ style, which will outlive him.’’ Which coincided nicely with this passage... David Lowery 2010-01-12T16:28:00-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/lucky.html Part 1 By six o'clock, we had our antique movie camera but not our second cast member. We thought finding a gentleman with a moustache would be easy enough - a stone thrown in a hipster bar, perhaps -... David Lowery 2010-01-10T20:34:15-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/the_oughts.html I somehow neglected to realize that 2010 was a turning point of any sort at all until just a few weeks ago, when I remembered an upcoming anniversary that I'll definitely be paying more attention to in the near... David Lowery 2010-01-02T19:09:51-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/12/a_special_chris.html This Christmas, we're happy to present the first glimpse at the upcoming film from Frank V. Ross, Audrey The Trainwreck: This trailer is also a birthday present to me, as tomorrow sees the onset of the last year of my... David Lowery 2009-12-25T15:23:06-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/12/two_lovers_a_se.html My favorite movies of the year? I've got that curious affliction wherein all titles vanish from my mind the moment I try to categorize them. A cursory glance over other lists reminds me that I cherished Two Lovers, 35 Shots... David Lowery 2009-12-24T18:11:19-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/12/sundance_laurea.html Here is Clay's great new trailer for his hilarious short film My Mom Smokes Weed. Whither the trailer for Lovers Of Hate? I'm not sure, but I do know that there are some pretty special promotional items being put together... David Lowery 2009-12-23T18:41:17-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/12/new_stuff.html In lieu of words for the moment, a few storyboards for something I'm gonna be shooting right after the turn of the new year... I can't wait to get out of this editing suite and back behind a camera again.... David Lowery 2009-12-23T10:26:40-06:00