So
the movie i worked for is playing at Sundance Film Festival this week
so there is
finally some promotional stuff up about it. I stole this off the
Sundance website. The picture you see, in the
back are the condoms and syringes I told you all about at Food Fun and
Fellowship. You'll recognize the girl and guy lying on the beach that
needs more sand. She was the girl that Josh Harnett holds out for in 40
days and 40 nights and the Princess in A Knight's Tale. He was in
Almost Famous and saved.
WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY
U.S.A.,
2006,
91 Minutes,
color
Director: Goran Dukic
Screenwriter: Goran Dukic, based on the novella by Etgar Keret
Suicide is no ordinary death, but in Wristcutters: A Love Story, it
provides entry into a quirky, quotidian universe that's both strangely
familiar and full of surprises. It's an afterlife of menial jobs, dingy
bars, and jukeboxes that play only suicide heroes like Kurt Cobain or
Nick Drake. And as Zia, a depressed but amiable young man, discovers
after he slits his wrists, it's populated solely by unsmiling souls who
have voluntarily plunged to the other side.
Soon after his arrival, Zia learns that his ex–the
inspiration for his own fatal gesture–has also joined the hari-kari
club. Still heartsick, he sets out to find her. With him on this
Oz-like quest are an eccentric Russian rocker lusting for love and a
melancholic, hitchhiking ingenue seeking a way out. In a rickety red
station wagon held together with tape, this impromptu family hit greasy
diners and decrepit salvage yards until they encounter odd, wonderful
Kneller (a deliciously crusty Tom Waits), who shepherds them to his
utopia and small, unexpected miracles.
Every turn in the road holds witty and poignant
revelations for the lovable characters in Goran Dukic's clever,
irresistible, and wildly original debut feature. He transplants his
Eastern European absurdist humor and existential worldview to the dusty
American West and comes up with a small miracle of his own.—
Caroline Libresco
Screenwriters
:
Goran Dukic, based on the novella by Etgar Keret
Executive Producer
:
Jonathan Schwartz
Producers
:
Chris Coen, Tatiana Kelly, Mikal P. Lazarev, Adam Sherman
Cinematographer
:
Vanja Cernjul
Editor
:
Jonathan Alberts
Production Designer
:
Linda Sena
Composer
:
Bobby Johnston
Cast
:
Patrick Fugit, Shannon Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits, Leslie Bibb, John Hawkes
cool pic of me filming Dioso's wedding, that's Reylan in the middle
Sometime's the hardest steps to take are the most important and
worthwhile. i was talking to Reylan about the life of a 5th year and I
started to realize that this is the first time in my life that people
the same age as me are doing drastically different things, they're
actually working, getting higher education, stationed overseas, and i'm
still just a kid. I got no complaints about that
life's pretty interesting. I'm excited about the future but I'm going
to appreciate the present to its utmost level. all of us are still so
young and there's so much growing we have left to do. I got to
experience a quasi dream on wednesday. It has always been my dream to
one day sit in a classroom and have a film I made be analyzed. What
happened in creative writing class was that because I had only 4 days
to write a 15 page play, I simply extended a two minute scene in
Legendary Gangsters to a play version. I was able to add the entire
back story to the play and my class actually performed it. It was fun
watching my class perform characters I had known and seen so well my
little feature. I was overjoyed when my class couldn't stop laughing
during the performance. The best part though was when they actually
ANALYZED it and when somebody started talking about the conflict of
Kent and Jack being more important Dennis and Denise and Kent's
personality to backstab everybody to achieve is dream seems
inconsistent in his relationship with Theresa I almost cried! The fact
that somebody had actually put a lot of deep thought into our silly
little feature Legendary Gangsters and it's characters was almost as
good as experiencing my ultimate dream.
still lots of time to play people. come find me. I'll be in room 2 at the Blue House.
that's right. I just got listed for the movie I worked for this summer.
Click the Cast or Full Cast and Crew to see the all "GREAT" people I
was enslaved to this summer HAHA!!