http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/ en-us Copyright 2010 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:37:45 -0600 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:34:18 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.01a http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/09/act_da_fool.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/09/act_da_fool.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:37:45 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/09/reference_mater.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/09/reference_mater.html Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:41:50 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/this_profile_of.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/this_profile_of.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:51:09 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/critiques.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/critiques.html Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:21:45 -0600 http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/callbacks.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/callbacks.html Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:33:23 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/ephemera_7.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/ephemera_7.html Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:49:00 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/ive_been_having.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/ive_been_having.html Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:55:01 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/carolinas.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/carolinas.html Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:41:21 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/power.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/power.html Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:37:28 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/alas.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/alas.html Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:57:34 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/short_films_by.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/short_films_by.html Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:54:21 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/576_takes_and_c.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/576_takes_and_c.html Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:43:06 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/that_catfish_tr.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/that_catfish_tr.html Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:15:32 -0600 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... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/turning_down.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/08/turning_down.html Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:03:05 -0600 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.... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/07/commentary_with.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/07/commentary_with.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:53:37 -0600