http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/ en-us 2010-03-11T01:16:09-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/pretty_close.html The proximal relationship being: I don't try to match the movies to the drawings - I try to match the drawings to what I know the movies will look like. These will be hitting the big screen starting Friday.... David Lowery 2010-03-11T01:16:09-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/on_possession.html Possession has become a curious thing. I can glance to the shelf of DVDs at my left and see evidence of a time when the procurement of physical media meant more to me than it does today, and I can... David Lowery 2010-03-09T19:15:18-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/45365_ftw.html I'm bursting with pride for these guys. If you haven't seen 45365 yet and you're in LA, you can catch it at the Silent Movie Theater on March 18th. Tickets, which will sell out, are available here.... David Lowery 2010-03-07T14:51:49-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/pink.html As I procrastinate on preparing a new snippet of journalism for Filmmaker Magazine's site, I took note of Scott Maccaulay's link to this article by Nancy Angier in the Times science pages last week concerning a study on the evolving... David Lowery 2010-03-07T01:19:21-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/back_in_la.html ...and awake just long enough to report that somewhere just shy of 30 people came to the screening at 92Y last night. Almost three times my estimate. Thanks to everyone who got the word out, everyone who came and to... David Lowery 2010-03-01T00:56:22-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/back_in_new_yor.html I love the notion of staying in while traveling. I'd rather be sitting in my friend's cozy apartment looking at the blizzard that hit New York yesterday than actually plunging out into it. Of course, I'm about to do just... David Lowery 2010-02-27T14:58:04-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/st_nick_at_92y.html Dear Friends, I would like to invite you - those of you living in Manhattan and its outer burroughs, at least - to join me February 27, a week from tomorrow, for a very special screening of St. Nick... David Lowery 2010-02-19T01:52:38-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/notes_on_whimsy.html This was the entry to a longer piece that I started a few weeks ago and then promptly forgot, inspired by a viewing of Spike Jonze's I'm Here at Sundance. * * * Whimsy is a delicate thing. As much... David Lowery 2010-02-17T20:22:16-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/a_smith_brother.html Last night, towards the end of a particularly good Valentine's Day, I was running to the car to grab some spare change when a woman crossing the parking lot stopped, looked at me and called out "you look just like... David Lowery 2010-02-16T02:25:00-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/a_small_piano.html The result of discovering time and time again that magic never happens according to plans is that, eventually, you stop planning altogether. I've learned to trust in vague notions and my own eye for the moment. Sometimes I'm off,... David Lowery 2010-02-10T14:52:29-06:00 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/miniatures.html Always plenty of room for some soft-focus nods....... David Lowery 2010-02-10T00:53:44-06:00 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