Ok I don't know if it is just me, but this year's selections just seem to really rock my world. Congratulations to the selection team, because this year's choices really do seem like they are hitting all the right marks.
It might be that I am so culturally deprived of late that anythings seems good. All I know is last year, there was one film that screened that I though looked good and even then I didn't go.
But this year... this is a whole different story:
Here are just some of my picks (they are in no particular order of when I am actually going to go...):
Control - it looks like I will go tommorrow night if I can since tonite timing-wise isn't going to happen. (it doesn't really appear to be part of the Festival though, just something that the film center is showing... which bodes very very well for me... ps... 24 Hour Party People is a favorite ....)
American Fork - any movie with everyloser in the description is a go for me
Chicago 10 - a contempory revisiting of the Democratic National Convention in 1968, timely since Denver hosts next summer. Lets just hope things don't go as awry.
Lynch - it is sold out the two times that I don't already have something scheduled... Seriously... Why is Saturday the 17th my social nemisis right now... Jim, I might not make the babihed show on time....
Moonstruck - Well I won't actually go and see this, but it must be noted that the Festival is rightly honoring Sidney Lumet. Besides, if I can't see this movie without Dan E and bottle of Chianti snuck into the theater... then it isn't worth going to for me. But Nicolas Cage is tasty and troubled in this movie.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - I read this book when it came out and honestly when I heard or read that Julian Schnabel was directing I was really interested. I might wait for this one though to end up at Neighborhood Flix (thankyousomuch P for the drive by the other night, that was good to see open finally!)
The Outsiders of New Orleans: The Loujon Press - When I was doing research for a project I was working on 10 years ago and then not so nicely and legally asked to stop, I read about this couple. I was working on a documentary with the focus on Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady and primarily Neal Cassady's time based on The First Third (which wasn't terribly good) because some of the buildings were being destroyed for condo development (which is ironic as hell since I was working for a developer at the time) I came across a copy and was blown away. So anyways... super exciting to see someone (namely: Wayne Ewing) whose POV I find very interesting make a film about people I am interested in.
And those are just the "big" movies to me. There are about 6 other movies/films/shorts that I am very interested in, but there are some other things that are competing for my finances in those 10 days. So I will have to see how it goes. I have bought tickets for some of those listed above and will contemplate the others that I am interested in.
So go and buy your tickets online, they make it really easy... I did and I am really excited.
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