Saturday, April 26, 2008
strikes
The TTC is on strike today. Totally off-topic and inappropriate and damnable, but it had to be mentioned because of the rage it provokes.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
blog
I seem to have almost 300 DVDs. I've seen most of them but I feel that I am being neglectful if I don't have them constantly on and if I am not looking at the TV most of my life.
If I take a break to write and plan, storyboard or otherwise get on with business, it is a distraction.
This week I saw 49 up and the stately, seady March of the Penguins and I think it may be time to officially end the term "documentary style" as applied to shaky amaturish crap.
Even The Mist, which is a good film with a fine director, opts for the trendy TV-style handheld "make it up on set and let the camera operators do as they like" approach that undermines the spell of the black and white version of the movie because the traditional approach has been chucked and it is glaringly obvious that the film was not made in the nineteen fifties.
I know The Fashion of the Christ has to be clear and cleverly lit, like a series of paintings.
If I take a break to write and plan, storyboard or otherwise get on with business, it is a distraction.
This week I saw 49 up and the stately, seady March of the Penguins and I think it may be time to officially end the term "documentary style" as applied to shaky amaturish crap.
Even The Mist, which is a good film with a fine director, opts for the trendy TV-style handheld "make it up on set and let the camera operators do as they like" approach that undermines the spell of the black and white version of the movie because the traditional approach has been chucked and it is glaringly obvious that the film was not made in the nineteen fifties.
I know The Fashion of the Christ has to be clear and cleverly lit, like a series of paintings.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
The Fashion otc
Getting closer to shooting this; meanwhile did another PTC short "Shitegeist" which will be posted soon enough and we seem to be on track with the feature again but The Fashion will be a chance to do something quality with film and display some comedy chops.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
April
In some cultures, April is not allowed. It is outlawed. So just be thankful that this month prevents March from slamming right into May in its big rush for June summer vacation.
I have not done my taxes yet, have no passport, and have not directed a feature film so needless to say I am boarderline psychotic.
I may turn The Fashion of the Christ into a feature just so that I can get past that hurdle in one's life, the feature film directing rite of passage that we all must go through.
I am almost forty, which means I am 39. Today is the day before we talk about MLK, who was 39 when he got shot. What have I contributed to earn assassination?
When I turned 33 I realized I had not lived as much life as Jesus had by that age or John Belishi, or Chris Farley for that matter. Where was my Best of compilation? The people haven't had a chance to turn on me yet. Now at 39 all I can do is maybe remember some of the lyrics to the U2 song about MLK Pride(In the Name of Love) "Early morning April 4, shot rings out in the memphis sky, free at last they took your life but they could not take your. . .something something. . . in the name of something."
And sadly all I remember was that when I first saw that video I thought Bono looked like a young Robin Williams.
What will The Fashion of the Christ do to help bring people together? Not much. Jesus will hopefully be played by a black actor. That is at the mercy of casting. I still need a non-union black Jesus with the personality one expects from that figure and also the chops for satire.
I have not done my taxes yet, have no passport, and have not directed a feature film so needless to say I am boarderline psychotic.
I may turn The Fashion of the Christ into a feature just so that I can get past that hurdle in one's life, the feature film directing rite of passage that we all must go through.
I am almost forty, which means I am 39. Today is the day before we talk about MLK, who was 39 when he got shot. What have I contributed to earn assassination?
When I turned 33 I realized I had not lived as much life as Jesus had by that age or John Belishi, or Chris Farley for that matter. Where was my Best of compilation? The people haven't had a chance to turn on me yet. Now at 39 all I can do is maybe remember some of the lyrics to the U2 song about MLK Pride(In the Name of Love) "Early morning April 4, shot rings out in the memphis sky, free at last they took your life but they could not take your. . .something something. . . in the name of something."
And sadly all I remember was that when I first saw that video I thought Bono looked like a young Robin Williams.
What will The Fashion of the Christ do to help bring people together? Not much. Jesus will hopefully be played by a black actor. That is at the mercy of casting. I still need a non-union black Jesus with the personality one expects from that figure and also the chops for satire.
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