November 2009
31 posts
1. Pretty sure Jeff Rossen wins douchebag of the month award for his stupidly cliche, Pulitzer winning (fingers crossed, Jeff), scary narrator tone.
2. “Have you ever inhaled this stuff before? It gets you really high.” I am not a fan of these kids.
3. Remember that hilarious Intervention episode with the inhalant addict?
4. What am I gonna do when I get home for the holidays and my...
Ha ha ha. I worked on this.
Something about this just screams mid to late-nineties “indie” film. From Sundance Audience Award winner to the video store shelf in my home town. Like, this movie or this one or this one and even this one.
Gotta get on these Docs
Sherman’s March
Hell House
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
And this in theaters;
“Collapse” by Chris Smith (responsible for my favorite doc of all time, American Movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyHIOg5aHk
Boom Goes the Whiteomite
Armond White wrote a scathing review of this years hot new exploitation drama. Here is a sample:
Not since The Birth of a Nation has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as Precious. Full of brazenly racist clichés (Precious steals and eats an entire bucket of fried chicken), it is a sociological horror show. Offering racist hysteria masquerading as social...
Essay Concerning My Misbehavior On Set
Parking Regulations and How I Failed
We in the film community grow used to the fact that when we arrive on set, parking is completely taken care of for us. We forget that on a daily basis other people in the world have to struggle and claw their way into a legal spot and then to make matters worse, they have to pay for their parking. It is a sad and cruel world.
Every now and again we...
Talking to strangers in coffee shops
It’s okay. Don’t worry about the headphones. I want to remove them every fifteen minutes to say, “What?” and then answer some banal question concerning your or my work inside this coffee shop. Okay, I’m going to put my headphones back on now.
I’m NOT wearing these headphones and listening to early Tangerine Dream tracks to “get in the zone” with my...