“Let’s get tickets for opening night,” says my literary friend. “We should buy them early,” adds the trend reporter. “Can I join?” the office manager interjects.
What about that fact that every promo clip looks insipid? And as reported by guardian.co.uk after the film’s London premiere last week, “Early reviews were, on the whole, rather mixed.”
“I don’t care,” says the trend reporter. “I’m going to see it and see it again. I’m going to buy the DVD and then see it again with my mother.”
And, hell yeah, I’m excited about this female super bowl of film.
UPDATE: The New York Times just caught up to this.
Pedro (Jorge Adrian Espindola) on a mission with Magda (Paola Mendoza)
My favorite film from New Directors/New Films 2007, “Sangre de Mi Sangre” (Blood of My Blood) (originally titled “Padre Neustro”) won the grand jury prize at Sundance earlier that year. I love seeing solid story-telling from a first-time director, in this case, Christopher Zalla. Per the film’s notes: “A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father – only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers’ fortune.”
I asked Ryan from IFC why it took so long to open. “we picked up the film last year but by the time we did we had so many obligations that it had to wait til now but i actually think it’s a good time for it,” he responded, via Blackberry I presume.
The film opens at the cool, comfortable IFC Center. For troglodytes and out-of-towners, it’s available on IFC in Theaters from On Demand.
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Stew in “Passing Strange,” whose credits are: Book, Lyrics, Co-Composer, Co-Orchestrator, Narrator
I wish more films lived up to the excellence of a show I just saw on Broadway. (And I am so not a lover of Broadway musicals.) Maybe “Passing Strange” is a Broadway musical for independent film lovers. All elements—story, catchy (rock) music, acting, choreography, lights—were perfect. It charts the course of a musician, via sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, from his youth in middle class black America to Europe and beyond.
Earlier this week the show was nominated for several Tony’s, Broadway’s Oscars. I’ll be rooting for it on June 15, the night of the awards.
Finally had a chance to check out Takashi Murakami’s exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. It does a good job of triggering the shopping reflex, but I live near Canal Street....
Sculptures, paintings, and animated shorts are bursting with juicy colors and textures. I’m looking forward to his live action film in 2009.
A wacky spy spoof from the land that loves Jerry Lewis, Michel Hazanaviciu’s film is as stylish as it is over-the-top.
Agent OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) mambos with Larmina (Bérénice Béjo)
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