A Steady Diet of Film

We are not dead.

Well, for those of you unsure, this blog is run by a few people. Three of us just started grad school, one of us is out of the country working on their film and the other is a busy busy bee. We all love film, two of us our getting our MFA's in Filmmaking right now and one of us works for a very cool film-related company.

ANYWAY, I tell you this so you don't think we at FilmLight have abandoned you OR EACH OTHER.

Here's the dish from my neck of the woods (Southern but-not-L.A. California):

1. Mike Mills is my crushworthy director of the month. THUMBSUCKER is not only better than I expected, but actually a pretty good film. There is a lot of love in that film. Here's the URL to Mike's blog!
http://www.sonyclassics.com/thumbsucker/blog/

2. I saw Miranda July's film ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW multiple times and in different states even. Apparently July wrote a film that her boyfriend directed. Here's what Film Threat has to say about Miguel Arteta's (Chuck and Buck) new short film:

ARE YOU THE FAVORITE PERSON OF ANYBODY?
by Jeremy Mathews
(2005-01-31)

2004, Un-rated, 4 Minutes,

Are You the Favorite Person of Anbody? is a clever four minutes of odd fun directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Miranda July, who wrote and directed one of the best features at Sundance 2005, “Me and You and Everyone We Know.” In addition to her talent for long titles, July has a gift for semi-surreal but compelling events. In the black-and-white HD movie, John C. Reilly plays a man standing on a neighborhood street, asking people the titular survey. July, regular Arteta collaborator Mike White and Chuy ChÃvez play the interviewees, who all offer different answers and receive different responses (Would you like an orange?).

3. Did anyone catch those dazzling performances in Gregg Araki's MYSTERIOUS SKIN? The kid from Third Rock from the Sun! Bill Sage as a pedophile! Brilliant.

4. I keep trying to figure out why I still haven't seen Lucrecia Martel's THE HOLY GIRL/La Nina Santa. It's gotten a second wind via promotion campaign now that it's DVD on dvd. It was the first film I've ever seen a trailer for its DVD release at a movie theater. So much better than those Stella Artois ads.

More later!

xo

posted by Cathy @ Monday, October 03, 2005