http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/ en-us Copyright 2009 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:35:15 -0600 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:23:41 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.01a http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss And now an interlude, as I ignore the prescient possibility of writing a full monograph on Trouble Every Day by tearing through the hills of Virginia on motorcycles. I'm out here once again at the Swanberg family manse, and tonight... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/07/the_2nd_annual.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/07/the_2nd_annual.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:35:15 -0600 For your listening pleasure: two selections from Benjmin Britten's opera of Billy Budd, which Denis uses to score her film: Billy Budd - Scene 1: Pull, By Bantams Billy Budd - Interlude & Scene 2: Blow Her Away... And,... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/beau_travail_19.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/beau_travail_19.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:47:59 -0600 Nenette et Boni marks Denis' first use of a score by the pop group Tindersticks, whose lush, tremulous music (much of it drawn from their second self-titled album) henceforth becomes a trademark of her work, and which here ebbs... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/nenette_et_boni.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/nenette_et_boni.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:48:21 -0600 Chronology must temporarily fall by the wayside: I made it up to Nenette et Boni before yesterday, when 35 Rhums played at LAFF. That morning and afternoon saw a welcome influx of guests and a not-so-welcome overabundance of sunshine,... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/35_rhums_2009.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/35_rhums_2009.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:21:43 -0600 I haven't seen Claire Denis' second feature, S'en fout la mort (as far as I can tell, it's only available on an out-of-print VHS) and so can't exactly trace her path from the stateliness of Chocolat to the warm... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/jai_pas_sommeil.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/jai_pas_sommeil.html Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:52:11 -0600 I wonder how many people looking forward to getting Lasse Hallstrom's Chocolat from Netflix have accidentally received Claire Denis' 1988 debut instead. Of them, I wonder how many actually watched it, and if the same great strengths that so... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/chocolat.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/chocolat.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:53:30 -0600 For a few months two years ago, I kept an account, in a little Moleskine, of every movie I saw. A few lines, a few paragraphs, whatever came to mind; an exercise meant mostly to better affix the film... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/a_week_with_cla.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/a_week_with_cla.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:58:23 -0600 I watched St. Nick all the way through yesterday for the first time since the premiere at SXSW. But first, let me say that I haven't been to a festival outside of Sundance that has screenings earlier than 11:30am, and... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/nine_am.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/nine_am.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:20:37 -0600 I just made this spot for my friend Alexi's blog: In other news, I just arrived at my lakefront hotel in Michigan and discovered that the main venue for the Waterfront Film Festival is in a converted pie factory! Something... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/im_boy_crazy.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/im_boy_crazy.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:41:05 -0600 Scott Maccaulay scored a major coup at the Filmmaker Blog - an extensive interview with After Last Season helmer Mark Region. In spite of of my own publicly stated disbelief, I'm finding the dawning evidence that this is, in fact,... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/scott_on_mark_a.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/scott_on_mark_a.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:56:23 -0600 The Waterfront Film Festival's program notes include a viewer advisory note, alerting audience members that St. Nick contains nudity and language. Which is true! But it seems strange and funny to put such literal terms on the film, because I've... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/adult_content_w.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/adult_content_w.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:25:40 -0600 So the trip Ti and Adam and I took on Friday was to Lancaster, California, which is apparently the crystal-meth capital of Southern California. While driving down its sunny avenues, we espied a man in a motorized wheelchair going through... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/after_last_seas.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/after_last_seas.html Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:00:14 -0600 I wish every show I saw was at Largo. It has the best accoustics, and you have to sit down, which is generally my live music position of choice. Last night I paid a visit to see the Watkins Family... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/fa_at_largo.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/fa_at_largo.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:31:03 -0600 There are a few people whose writing and speech patterns are entirely inseparable, and fewer still whose identities are telegraphed as instantly by the former as by the latter. So then, to note the byline of this http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/opinion/02jay.html?_r=2">op-ed piece in... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/following.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/following.html Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:40:35 -0600 I finally caught up with James Gray's The Yards and We Own The Night, after being so enchanted by Two Lovers a few months ago. Perhaps I came at them predisposed, but I loved these movies. Particularly The Yards.... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/commentary_jame.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2009/06/commentary_jame.html Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:08:44 -0600