Overheard in Texas

Maybe I'm just picking the wrong shuttles, but here are some of the things I've heard on my trip:

"I don't like shorts, I don't ever watch em."

"I don't want to watch that film with subtitles, I don't want to read."

And "Fuck L.A. I've never been to California but I hate L.A."

That last one came from supreme asshole of the festival, this guy who was telling me that when he makes a movie, it will go to either Toronto or Sundance first and then to SXSW and that he wouldn't show in Dallas. Despite the fact this asshole lives in Dallas. And that he is drinking for free at a Dallas party.

WTF Dallas?

Check out this news story! A Dallas strip club employs a 12 year old runaway and stays open! The news story is accompanied with a helpful google map of the club's location. Presumably to help the pervs find the place. Oh, and they were employing a 17 year old stripper at the same time too.

In Dallas and on the Shootout

I'm off to Dallas this week for AFI Dallas, and I'll be writing about it for the "Shootout blog" over on AMC. Head on over there to check out my coverage as I'll be only posting here sporadically. And if you are a new reader coming from the Shootout blog, welcome! You might want to check out the stories tagged "film." a little further down on the right.

Full Dallas lineup

AFI Dallas announced their full lineup today. Lots to be excited about, here are a few highlight I'm personally looking forward to. I've mentioned BAGHEAD on this site a couple times now, maybe I'll finally get to actually see the damn film in Dallas now. I also just wrote about STRANDED here the other day, I knew at the time that it would be playing in Dallas but I don't want to ruffle any feathers with unwanted leaks. I'm glad Dallas is showing Heckler also, check out this post I had about that doc. GOLIATH is another film I'm very excited to see from Sundance, the Zellner brothers finally make a feature! One priority to see in Dallas for me is TIME CRIMES, it sounds like the best low budget time travel film since PRIMER (a personal favorite--Shane Carruth, where are you?) My final recommendation to you if you are going to be in Dallas is not to miss THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS. Also this is an excuse for me to link to my photo with Ellen Page again!

Pictured above is my girlfriend Susan Garbett and Senior Programmer James Faust.

Jury duty

AFI DALLAS is right around the corner, in fact I'm going out there this weekend to visit Susan. We had lots of fun last year and I got to serve on the Short film jury. Here is some video of myself awarding LITTLE FARM by Calvin Reeder the Grand Jury prize. If you have a chance to ever see anything by Reeder, do it. His new film THE RAMBLER will be in Dallas too.


LITTLE FARM Wins Jury Prize for Best Short at AFI DALLAS from afidallas5 on Vimeo.

Dallas programmers name some fav films

My buddies Michael Cain, James Faust and Sarah Harris named some of their favorite films from 2007 here. I love that Sarah mentions seeing the Tracey Fragments at the end of the article. The film is amazing and the screening she's talking about is the one I blogged here.