I'm sitting in a hotel room with the sliding door wide open. Siobhan is outside reading "Let the Right One In" with her feet propped up on a table that holds an empty ash tray. I should probably be outside with her enjoying the sounds of the Mediterranean rolling on to the beach, but I'm just savoring the moment as the BBC news is re-running the ( Read more... )

You know, people are joking that Will Smith would be the one to play Obama in a film, were it to get made, and I'm sure it will at some point. They say Smith, "Because of the big ears". Personally, I think its just because he's black, and nobody wants to come out and say it. Well, I think that's a little discriminating. I mean, the obvious choice ( Read more... )

I'm still not a fan of Baz Lurhmann's Romeo and Juliet, but couldn't stop thinking about it today after watching the documentary Cocaine Cowboys today. The doc recaps the life and times of the violent drug days of the 70's / 80's. I kept thinking of the grittiness to Lurhmann's film, which made me want to look up scenes on youtube. When-upon I ( Read more... )

...in the sense of how I look at filmmaking. This comes from a topic of discussion earlier tonight, and here are a few that come to mind. The point is not to list the films that you think are the best, or that you pretentiously put on your "top ten" to show off film tastes, but to think of films that when you walked out of them, something changed ( Read more... )

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At the last minute I went down to the Capri theater in Montgomery after work with a few people to experience The Fall. One of the single most amazing films I have ever experienced. It is a film with such tenderness it reached ahold of me, and embraced me tightly as it took me along on a fantastic and heart-breaking journey ( Read more... )

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Scramble went well. The selection was all right, though I was really happy for Burt's team, I really dug his whole Grindhouse-esk flick.

I thought Billy Ray's team was robbed of the dike award.

We got audience choice, (yay us!), along with a notice on al.com. Thank you Spencer for telling me about this, it has truely made my night! Leave a comment  14 

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Come see the full piece July 30th at Workplay @ 7PM

A-hoy! The latest project from Plainview Oil Inc has leaked a photo from their latest film entitled, "Hell is for Bastards". The guys over at Plainview have been pretty tight-lipped about the project, but we can only assume that it'll kick some ass, especially when words like "epic" are following early screenings. The film does have a very strong ( Read more... )