So, I head over to this legendary video rental shop in downtown Chicago about a year ago, hunting for that specific movie. The clerk there basically tells me, "Look, it's a masterpiece, but we don't carry it—you'll have to hunt elsewhere." Well, I've been looking ever since, and I haven't even been able to track down a decent digital rip on any streaming site... 😢
Paramount Pictures launched this project that was supposed to be a legitimate film school. The whole idea was to run a year-long program in partnership with Brešan and their crew, covering every single stage—starting right from screenwriting, wasn't it?
A few years back, an admissions board at Juilliard School asked one aspiring student what he thought about classical music. He told them straight up that while he appreciates it, he doesn't actually listen to it. Apparently, that was enough to make them take offense.
Jose Chase2 said:(How the hell am I supposed to know the name of some German WWII fighter plane😕 )
Hmm, is it U2 or Messerschmidt? :smart face: Anyway, just some band that started out in punk...
Jose Chase2 said:Now I’ve got a question for you guys—how do you actually write a script or a synopsis that's only 3 to 10 pages? That limit is driving me insane because all my ideas are full-blown feature films, so I have zero clue how to condense them into something that short.
For me, it's harder to even hit three pages. My films don't rely on dialogue. 😛
I heard the selection committee is such elitist snobs that you basically have to worship classical music rather than just liking it.
From November 19th to the 21st, theaters like Central Park and the Atlantic Ocean will be hosting this one-of-a-kind festival featuring films shot entirely in a single take. More details here: www.onetakefilmfestival.com/
Now we just have to see if these directors care more about technical gimmicks than actual substance...
And, yeah, let’s be real—Michael Winterbottom’s film 9 Songs is pretty explicit, so I'm expecting a packed house, haha.
Oh, and again! You can expect the unexpected at this festival, whatever that might end up looking like... 🙂
on a cold winter night where the hill stands high the little creek froze solid buried under snow
- quite unusual for a creek to settle up on a ridge like that. A deviant little stream.
and a little Joe searches everywhere for that flow wondering where it went, where it went it burns a hole right through him
- is this Joe really from Zagorec if he can't even figure out which hill this natural phenomenon is sitting on? If there's only one damn hill, then we're clearly dealing with a dim-witted rabbit.
and he cries, oh how he cries for that little creek he mourns, he mourns now mourning with all his heart
- this shows a blatant lack of social dimension in our hero. Lacking any actual love to exchange with other forest creatures, he fixates on inanimate objects.
and sadly thinks the little guy of where that creek used to be maybe following the mules away to some far southern land.
- Joe's about to kick the bucket. Either his heart is breaking, or he's frozen solid because he's too stupid to crawl into a warm bear's lap.
DEATH TO ALL DIM-WITTED RABBITS! THE CHICAGO PARKING LOT LIVES FOREVER! 🙂
No way, the little guy is a total pacifist, despite all that patriotic posturing—which is really just thinly veiled, hardline nationalism.
"...to beat the heck out of a wolf, goddammit, let the local mob handle it.... ... and when a wild hog falls like a ripe pear, a hunter's rifle takes care of business this winter"
Here’s my rundown of the films from the festival. This whole thing gave me such a massive headache and kept me up all night that I can barely even string a coherent sentence together. When you're watching movies that are scheduled to start at midnight... By the final day, I looked like a voluntary blood donor who didn't know how to say NO. Anyway:
Bruce Lee: Watch Out for the Son's Hand The info desk told me to just show up on time at the MM Center—said there were no reservations and all that. So I get there, only to find out the screening was moved to the SC theater, and you had to pick up tickets at a box office that was celebrating being closed for an hour already. Three hours of my life wasted. I thought, "Fine," turned on my heel, and went home. The next day, I ran into a guy who said you could have gotten in without a ticket anyway.
Trip A Czech film. Basically: warm family humor played out through a slow pace, despite the characters' problems. The experience was ruined by people who are way too easily amused; they were laughing at absolutely everything, even though the film isn't actually that funny. That's why I prefer screenings where I make up a double-digit percentage of the audience. A movie you watch on your couch.
Czech dream Two directing students filming a documentary for their thesis about consumerism in the Czech Republic, so they just invent a hypermarket and advertise it like it's real. The doc is a bit too long, and while it's unfinished, it could have been filmed in any other similar country.
Films Kill a Child and Stray Dogs I intended to see, but my head felt too heavy and my legs were too weak.
My Brother Vampire this movie This film has everything a real movie needs: lifelike dialogue, convincing actors, weird humor, sex, violence, and some moronic thirty-year-old who insists on calling himself the Prince of Darkness. The director plays with details and manages to wrap up this beautiful story, though it's definitely not something you want to watch with your grandma. Best film I saw at the 2nd Sundance Film Festival and one of my top 20 overall. It feels fresh despite the gloomy visuals on screen. Anyone got this on Divx? 🙂
Song for Raggy Boy At first, I wasn't a fan of the "retro" directing style—the kind you used to see 20 or 30 years ago—but the approach actually made sense since the plot takes place before WWII. And yeah, this film has violence and sex (simultaneously 😬) as well as subtle humor (the written part at the end). You can forgive certain gaps where the viewer might wonder what a specific character was doing when they weren't on screen. The character selection is excellent, especially those two thugs and the main guy at the boarding school.
New Jersey Why is this considered some "American art cinema hit"? I saw much more interesting directorial choices in the Czech film Trip! At first, I thought this was about some junkie whose life just drifts along without him noticing the turns, but then it turns out to be a movie you can invite a dumb girl to, where you spend more attention on her than the film itself. The supporting characters all talk the exact same way, like in Gilmore Girls, but these are more washed-out, chewed-up, and nowhere near as interesting as the side characters Woody Allen would write or Steve Buscemi would act. My preconceived notions about Zach Braff simply ruin the film's credibility. Maybe his thoughts should have merged with the events or provided environmental commentary; then maybe the film would have had a soul. Natalie Portman gives the film some quality, but even she could have looked cuter. Two older guys sitting behind me were definitely from the easily amused category, which just made the viewing even worse. The film isn't actually bad, but I expected more, thanks to the comments from some Forum users.
Supersize me I would've watched it, but I only looked at the first page of the schedule and missed it. I'll probably just catch it on Divx; I assume it's a hit. An American spends a month eating at McDonald's and gains 20kg and some other disease. McD. discontinued the Supersize menu after the movie came out.
Regarding the organization… I get it—they had 50 movies to juggle and screenings scattered across five different venues, so technical glitches happen. But I don't get why they bother putting out an info number if nobody actually picks up the phone. I tried calling at noon, 2 PM, and 5 PM during the last festival, and absolutely nothing. Then there's the website; they post screening updates less than seven hours before the actual showtime. I’m planning to catch a film earlier in the lineup, and honestly, I might even want to meet up with a friend before things start. Seriously, people, I could practically do their jobs for them next year for minimal compensation… Say, two VIP passes (you probably noticed I don't attend the paid screenings anyway?) and some ice cream with popcorn.
steelstag4 said:First major screw-up today.🙄 The > for > was pushed to tonight, but in the end, nothing happened. They played the wrong movie first—the one meant for tomorrow—and after ten minutes of pure chaos and shouting, they finally realized they messed up the playback. ...
Does anyone have > on >? 😁
Look, I told the technician they had the wrong film playing just a minute before the crowd started losing it, but they were totally clueless. They had > running without subtitles, and then the subtitles for > showing up without the actual movie. 😬
Even a > couldn't find > on > (or DVD).
If anyone is dying because they missed > or if you actually liked the film, shoot me a PM.
Zidane and Beckham are actual midfielders. You and I? We’re just guys stuck in the middle of the pitch. 🙂
People call me Gattuso—mostly because of the facial hair rather than my work rate, though by the end of the game, I’m usually one heartbeat away from a full-blown cardiac arrest.
I usually play keeper or hang out somewhere on the right side. Striker just isn't my thing; I hate having to constantly track back when all I want to do is thread those insane, vision-heavy through balls. 🙄 Lately, though, I can't even pull off the stuff I see in my head, so I just tell everyone I'm much better at playing defense.
spike - just go watch Camus; he was a solid goalie until an injury cut his career short.