Ryan McNeil
I’m hoping that photo I’ve posted will force the issue, and that clear skies will show up for a week or two. The last two weeks have been a blur: a whirlwind of family, social events, personal projects, and a nasty stomach bug to boot. The run-around ends tonight with a Green Day concert, and considering they’re a band I should have seen a long time ago, I’m really jacked to finally be seeing them for the first time. But I swear just yesterday it was late March.
The funny thing is that I feel like I haven’t missed much at the theatres – that the movie studios pretty much abandoned us for four whole weeks. In that stretch, I was able to soak up some goodness like SPRING BREAKERS and GINGER & ROSA, but that has more to do with being lucky enough to live in a special market. Why the hell would studios shrug off a whole month?
In a way I’m glad because it means I didn’t miss much during my pseudo-hiatus, but still.
Looking forward I can see the trickle before the flood, with titles like TRANCE, UPSTREAM COLOR, and 42 coming before IRON MAN arrives and signal’s summer’s start. Of course, before that though, I get to feast on Hot Docs. Consider yourself warned!
Like I say people – clearer skies. Hopefully they’re coming.
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For your listening and reading fulfilment, I give you…
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I got called out during a recent episode of TUMP, which gave strangers one more reason to give funny looks to the guy listening to Jamaicans on his headphones. Listen in as they breakdown season three of The Walking Dead.
While I’m unsure how much my initial opinion of the film will change, I find myself wishing to revisit TO THE WONDER. Perhaps I’m encouraged by how smitten Brian J. Roan was with it.
There’s a fine line between selling your movie and overselling your movie. Down at Wide Screen, Rich Watson brings up an interesting point where a movie’s poster campaign is concerned.
During her recent appearance on Matineecast 82 (listened yet?), Dor Dotson mentioned that she’d be going to a screening of UPSTREAM COLOR which would be followed by a discussion moderated by Steven Soderbergh. As she promised on the podcast, she’s written about that glorious experience and summed it up thusly.
You may recall that I recently watched (and fell deeply in love) with NINOTCHKA. Well last week, Forager of Films Alex Kittle watched it too, and seems to have likewise fallen in love. Oh – while you’re there, get a gander at her snazzy new banner.
Most of my fellow bloggers probably don’t know this, but there are certain films I associate with them as time passes. Personal favorites, and such. One movie that I found myself grabbing from the shelf this week was THE NEW WORLD – a film which I tend to associate with James Blake Ewing. Wouldn’t you know it, he logged a few more thoughts about it this week.
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As for The Tweet of The Week, I point to The Droid and asks if truer words have ever been spoken…
[blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/tdylf/status/322057796101222401″]
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Enjoy!
I haven’t been to the theatre much lately either. That will change this weekend when Trance and Place Beyond the Pines are released here.
I’m seeing TRANCE tonight.
How’d you do with Pines? I dug that one back at TIFF, but it feels like people are coming away from it a little lukewarm.
Same here. I haven’t seen a new movie in weeks, but I will see 42 and maybe TRANCE soon.
Thanks for the shout-out. Hope you feel better.
They’re dropping in bunches now, right? It’ll probably be that way until August. How’d you take to 42?
hmm… Is it that you love Walking Dead or the TV season review format?
Thanks much for the link. I wish I was getting some of the US releases now. I’d love to be revisiting Place Beyond the Pines. I’m going to return to the theatre for the first time in a couple weeks to give a couple films I have low expectations for a shot: Evil Dead & The Croods
Sorta both. Love is a strong word, but I definitely *like* The Walking Dead. To put a point on it, at the moment I’m watching about a dozen shows, and that’s one of them.
But more to the point, I like listening to discussion about TV and dig that you have given that it’s own side stage in the musical festival that is TUMP.