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I just bought a VIP badge for this festival, so I'll be watching lots and lots of movies this coming weekend. Itenerary for my friend and I:
Saturday 8/23: Terry Gilliam's Tideland, Nightmare, The Hamster Cage, Shinya Tsukamoto's Haze.
Sunday 8/24: Brothers Quay's Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Living and the Dead, Ab Tak Chhappan, & Hatchet.
Wednesday 8/27: AICN Special(Secret) Screening.
Thursday 8/28: Fantastic Planet & Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain.
Pictures, reviews, and rants to come.
I just bought a VIP badge for this festival, so I'll be watching lots and lots of movies this coming weekend. Itenerary for my friend and I:
Saturday 8/23: Terry Gilliam's Tideland, Nightmare, The Hamster Cage, Shinya Tsukamoto's Haze.
Sunday 8/24: Brothers Quay's Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Living and the Dead, Ab Tak Chhappan, & Hatchet.
Wednesday 8/27: AICN Special(Secret) Screening.
Thursday 8/28: Fantastic Planet & Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain.
Pictures, reviews, and rants to come.
tell me what you think of the fountain. i'm a huge fan of da.
I met Mel Gibson last night at the very first ever screening of Apocolypto. Movie was meh, but that man is messed in the head. MESSED.
Reviews to follow!
Reviews to follow!
Movies watched this weekend(ratings, -4 to +4):
-Tideland: +0. Terry Gilliam seemed to not know what movie he was making.
-Nightmare: +2. This movie had no right being as good as it was.
-Hamster Cage: +4. Easily the best movie I watched.
-Apocolypto: -2. This movie tried to be too many things all at once. It needed more focus. That and the editor needs to be lashed.
-Unrest: +0. It would be lower, but the fact that it was made by a former surgeon and he used REAL CADAVERS makes it worthwhile.
-Piano Tuner of Earthquakes: +1. Should have been a short film, but beautiful none the less.
-The Living and the Dead: +3. Second best of the festival so far. It got kind of long-winded after the second act, but well worth it!
-Simon Says: +4. I'm rating this not on a good movie scale, but on a FUN movie scale. Crispin Glover playing TWO roles is THREE times as creepy. Plus now I just walk around going "CHOO! CHOO!" and "You didn't say Simon saaaaayysssss...."
Wednesday: Pan's Labrynth. (We got an employee to verify our guess.)
Thursday: The Fountain. Renaissance. After party + award ceremony. (Let you know Friday...)
-Tideland: +0. Terry Gilliam seemed to not know what movie he was making.
-Nightmare: +2. This movie had no right being as good as it was.
-Hamster Cage: +4. Easily the best movie I watched.
-Apocolypto: -2. This movie tried to be too many things all at once. It needed more focus. That and the editor needs to be lashed.
-Unrest: +0. It would be lower, but the fact that it was made by a former surgeon and he used REAL CADAVERS makes it worthwhile.
-Piano Tuner of Earthquakes: +1. Should have been a short film, but beautiful none the less.
-The Living and the Dead: +3. Second best of the festival so far. It got kind of long-winded after the second act, but well worth it!
-Simon Says: +4. I'm rating this not on a good movie scale, but on a FUN movie scale. Crispin Glover playing TWO roles is THREE times as creepy. Plus now I just walk around going "CHOO! CHOO!" and "You didn't say Simon saaaaayysssss...."
Wednesday: Pan's Labrynth. (We got an employee to verify our guess.)
Thursday: The Fountain. Renaissance. After party + award ceremony. (Let you know Friday...)
Well, I'm pretty upset right now. Because of the activities on Wednesday, I wasn't able to go to The Fountain. Upset isn't accurate. I'm livid.
But, I gave my pass to my friend John. He's been dying to see this movie, like me, for six years. Since he realized how upset I was by not being able to go he pulled Darren Aronofsky aside after he presented and had him call me.
I got to talk to Darren Aronofsky on the phone. :)
But, I gave my pass to my friend John. He's been dying to see this movie, like me, for six years. Since he realized how upset I was by not being able to go he pulled Darren Aronofsky aside after he presented and had him call me.
I got to talk to Darren Aronofsky on the phone. :)
Amazing!~!!