Written by Pete Timmermann Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:00
This morning was the press screening of the new Gus Van Sant film, Paranoid Park, which is about a young skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard and then decides not to tell anyone. As it sounds, the film plays very much like how Van Sant tackling a Larry Clark movie would be.
Written by Pete Timmermann Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:00
Although this year’s festival has so far perhaps been better to me both in terms of films and experiences than any other festival I’ve ever been to, it is dispiriting when you see five films in a day and four of them are disappointing, boring, or outright bad.
Written by Pete Timmermann Friday, 18 May 2007 16:00
I've long thought that Moore is a great filmmaker but a questionable political thinker, but that doesn't keep me from looking forward to his films (I didn't care for Fahrenheit 9/11, but have thoroughly enjoyed all of his other films so far). Sicko is a very good and very important film, easily of the caliber of Bowling for Columbine, but I think that it will lose a lot of its intended effect having come from Moore and not someone else; he just has too much baggage these days.
Written by Pete Timmermann Thursday, 17 May 2007 07:50
This is the sort of movie that
hardcore, longtime Joy Division fans will probably both love and hate—it’s a
great tribute to a great band (and a great film in and of itself), but it’s
actually so good that it will likely bring a lot of wienerish masses into
getting into Joy Division and acting like they have been all along. Get ready
for them to become popular again.
Written by Pete Timmermann Thursday, 17 May 2007 01:25
Seeing as how I am a fan of all
three of these filmmakers, and also since for once I am trying to see less
movies than I have in years past (so I don’t, you know, die), it seemed worth
it to at least send of the request and await the inevitable rejection (note
that just because I received the invitation to request an interview by no means
means that I will actually get said interview).
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