The Rotten Tomatoes Show stopped by AFI Fest last week. And while we didn’t get to hear the genius that was Kenny Ortega discuss exploitation, we did ask people about their favorite dance sequences in film.
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# of pages in of Finnegan’s Wake that Rian Johnson focused on: 439
# of seconds shortest film was: 35
# of shorts shown: 24
# of beers consumed before and after at open bar: …listen, it was like, 24 films. c’mon. drop it.
# of photos of the dude who no one knew who he was, but he just wanted to dance: 8
# of awkwardly tipped dollars to the bathroom attendant: $5
# of Sklar Brothers Shot On A Hill: 2
# of feature film directors in attendance: 2
# of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s sitting in the back row: 1
# of films at Reblog This that we previously watched: 1
# of short films that totally saw Pinchy on The Simpsons and The Slate “Toothbrush” sketch: 1
# of drinks tiddles thrown in my face based off pointless new media feuds: 0
Go on, Reblog it. Photo Credit: Ian Broyles
Went to Tumblr’s Reblog This Film Festival on Tuesday. The first short, Follow Her, was a prickly little charmer about the effect of twitter on a couple’s first date.
He thinks it’s like wearing a T-shirt with your thoughts on it. She thinks it’s like keeping a diary.
I think it’s been a disappointment.
NO CINEVEGAS? GET OUT!!
Shocking and utterly depressing news today: CineVegas will be on hiatus for 2010, starting the first in what will be many loud murmurs about other festivals for next year.
Of course, it is economic concerns that have put the freeze on the festival, per a press release:
CineVegas has become such a well respected film festival, and rather than allow the economy to affect its level of quality we have opted to put the event on hold,” said Robin Greenspun, Festival President.
While the event itself won’t be held, CineVegas continues to put on events and screenings of previous films throughout the year at the Brenden Theater in the Palms.
Conincidently, today I had an interview with Jon Steingart and Jillian Apfelbaum, who are producers for Black Dynamite and behind the FSITO! campaign viral marketing campaign. It just so happened that Dynamite played CineVegas ‘09 and was also at the Los Angeles Film Festival this year. But to them, could a film like Dynamite survive solely by a viral campaign in place of a film festival?
“In our case, no,” Steingart said. “This film couldn’t have succeeded if there were no bloggers. Everything was a stepping stone for us: if there were no bloggers who liked our first trailer, then we would have never gotten into a festival. If we didn’t get into a festival, a distributor would’ve never picked us up. If we didn’t go to multiple festivals, we wouldn’t have created word-of-mouth in multiple communities. The only reason why we’re opening in Seattle is because we won the Audience Award there.
I don’t see how a movie like this could succeed without film festivals.”
-John Lichman
The German newspaper Die Zeit offers an interview with the Iranian director Sepideh Farsi, whose film Tehran Without Permission—which she shot with her cell phone—is being shown at the Locarno Film Festival.
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-Jeff Plunkett
Oh, hello almost-long-weekend. I see you there over the horizon of another Thursday as we’re set to premiere a brand new episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show at 10:30 with reviews of Transformers: Racist Minstrel Show, My Sister’s Keeper and The Hurt Locker. But before then, let’s see what Sony has in terms of funny, why we like vampires and a new photo of Kevin Spacey.
-John Lichman
There’s a brand new episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show tonight and we’ll even give you a tease with our Top 5 Dads of All Time. You can see the rest tonight at 10:30 pm on Current. Until then, Today’s Important News:
-John Lichman
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