Here's a Friday morning snippet from a recent instant messenger conversation:
Me: A girl just walked into my office with bare feet. Fucking hippies.
Vinny Shit on the Face: Hippies are the Nazis of people who don't hate anyone.
This weekend, the Independent Film Festival of Boston comes to town once again. In only its third year, it has morphed into the dominant film festival in town... and trust me - there are TONS of festivals you've never heard of, mostly because of lack of funding and incompetent organization. IFF Boston is well-run and usually features lots of indie films worth checking out. So get out there and support local films, you fucking jerks! (What? Too hostile?)
My recommendation? Mutual Appreciation, the second film by my talented, Jamaica Plain-residing friend Andrew Bujalski. I was blown away by Andrew's first film Funny Ha Ha when I saw it at a (now defunct) film festival a few years ago. It looks like years later, Funny Ha Ha has got a second life with a distributor and a screening in Coolidge Corner coming up. So yay on Andrew!
Beyond just being a heck of a nice guy, Bujalski is a supremely talented filmmaker, with a gift for naturalistic atmosphere and clever dialogue. His second film (which I haven't seen but to which I am very much looking forward) is about a dude in a rock band. That's about all I know about it except that it features members of the indie rock superband Bishop Allen. At the very least, you know the music is going to be good. I don't think there's any karate in it, though. Too bad - I like karate.
Mutual Appreciation screens today at 4pm at the Brattle in Harvard Square and tomorrow at 3:30pm at the Somerville Theater in Davis.
Me: A girl just walked into my office with bare feet. Fucking hippies.
Vinny Shit on the Face: Hippies are the Nazis of people who don't hate anyone.
This weekend, the Independent Film Festival of Boston comes to town once again. In only its third year, it has morphed into the dominant film festival in town... and trust me - there are TONS of festivals you've never heard of, mostly because of lack of funding and incompetent organization. IFF Boston is well-run and usually features lots of indie films worth checking out. So get out there and support local films, you fucking jerks! (What? Too hostile?)
My recommendation? Mutual Appreciation, the second film by my talented, Jamaica Plain-residing friend Andrew Bujalski. I was blown away by Andrew's first film Funny Ha Ha when I saw it at a (now defunct) film festival a few years ago. It looks like years later, Funny Ha Ha has got a second life with a distributor and a screening in Coolidge Corner coming up. So yay on Andrew!
Beyond just being a heck of a nice guy, Bujalski is a supremely talented filmmaker, with a gift for naturalistic atmosphere and clever dialogue. His second film (which I haven't seen but to which I am very much looking forward) is about a dude in a rock band. That's about all I know about it except that it features members of the indie rock superband Bishop Allen. At the very least, you know the music is going to be good. I don't think there's any karate in it, though. Too bad - I like karate.
Mutual Appreciation screens today at 4pm at the Brattle in Harvard Square and tomorrow at 3:30pm at the Somerville Theater in Davis.
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I'll add my indie film-related shout out. A good friend of mine from college (Greg Marcks) is out there doing his thing, and he's got a good story so far.
He got several offers from studios to buy his first feature-length film screenplay, but he rejected them all because no one would sign him on to direct the film as well. (Ballsy for an unknown writer/director, eh?) He stuck by his guns and held out, eventually gaining production support from Hillary Swank after she read the screenplay.
They made the movie (Swank stars along with notables such as Rachael Leigh Cook and Patrick Swayze, etc.) and went the independent route, screening the film ("11:14") at Cannes in 2003 and so forth. But you've never heard of it, because for whatever reason it never got a US release date. Greg was probably holding out to release the movie for free in parking lots instead of in theaters. Greg is that kind of cool.
Greg also shot some killer footage for Playfair Roland's "Do You Wanna?" video.
I thought you hated Bishop Allen's music?
I certainly hate you
in another indie film-related topic that should be up for discussion
Bronson Pinchot(aka Cousin Balki Bartokomous) will be starring in the next season of the VH1 series "The Surreal Life" along with Jose Canseco and Pepa(of Salt N' Pepa)
"Don't be ridiculous"
No, I hate MARCUS Allen's music. Bishop Allen are cool by me.
Jerk.
UPDATE: Mutual Appreciation is terrific. Really funny and real and incredibly well done. Congratulations, Andrew and crew!
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