I'm much less stressed about "Monument" than I thought I'd be. There are two problem scenes with which I'll be working, but other than that the film's pretty much done. Just working on the fine edits. I'm really excited for the screening.

I started production on the film almost exactly two years ago. It's changed a lot since then; however, the basic story's remained the same. That story just expanded ( Read more... )

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So I just learned that "Disaster Movie" is coming out in August. I watched the trailer and it looks completely awful. Why do they keep making these movies?!? It's just really lazy filmmaking ( Read more... )

The shoot today went excellent. Given, what we filmed today was in no way what I'd originally planned (the Prom scene of "A School Night"). Instead, we filmed that scene I described last night. It went very well. I think I definitely got what I needed in terms of camerawork, and all the actors were great. I hopefully managed to keep the scene tense ( Read more... )

Bleggghhh... so I probably won't be filming the Prom scene of "A School Night" tomorrow; something for which I was totally prepared. It seems there are some last minute scheduling conflicts with the gym ( Read more... )

 The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see...

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon ( Read more... )

Back from Ithaca. Still love it ( Read more... )

So... I just want to own the entire Criterion collection. And the Eclipse series. Although I've watched many Criterion films, the only one I own is Fellini's "8 1/2", which I bought in NYC during the film program (it's a brilliant film, by the way. Full of that metaphysical, autobiographical craziness that I love ( Read more... )

IMDb.com's quote of the day is from one of the actors in "Monument" (it may change before you read this)

A recent Entertainment Weekly quoted another "Monument" actor.

Hellz yes.