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Well, I sent off my application for the Directors Guild Assistant Director Training Program! Huzzah!
I'm really hoping I get in. It's PAID training, and man oh man I need a job after graduation.
In other news, I saw "Pirate Radio" last weekend. Personally, I thought it was a fab 60's romp with lots of laughs and great music. But in reading the reviews around the interwebs, I found that a lot of people didn't like it. Their reasons ranged from terrible and extremely shallow characterizations of women to certain musical anachronisms - especially the use of the The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again," given that the song was released about five years after the events of the film. I suppose all of these arguments are valid in their own way, but really, it was just a silly, crude, fun little movie about rock and roll and the people who love it. All the performances were great, though Kenneth Branagh was channeling John Cleese so much that he may very well get sued. But he was still funny.
Anyway, I liked it. Movies made simply for the fun of it are rare these days. Either they take themselves far to seriously or they have been futzed with by a committee so much that all the soul and life have been drained from them. It was refreshing to see a film that takes its subject seriously, but doesn't take itself too seriously.
I'm really hoping I get in. It's PAID training, and man oh man I need a job after graduation.
In other news, I saw "Pirate Radio" last weekend. Personally, I thought it was a fab 60's romp with lots of laughs and great music. But in reading the reviews around the interwebs, I found that a lot of people didn't like it. Their reasons ranged from terrible and extremely shallow characterizations of women to certain musical anachronisms - especially the use of the The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again," given that the song was released about five years after the events of the film. I suppose all of these arguments are valid in their own way, but really, it was just a silly, crude, fun little movie about rock and roll and the people who love it. All the performances were great, though Kenneth Branagh was channeling John Cleese so much that he may very well get sued. But he was still funny.
Anyway, I liked it. Movies made simply for the fun of it are rare these days. Either they take themselves far to seriously or they have been futzed with by a committee so much that all the soul and life have been drained from them. It was refreshing to see a film that takes its subject seriously, but doesn't take itself too seriously.