Advanced Screening week

I went to two movies this week, Steve Buscemi's Interview and the movie Introducing the Dwights (formerly Clubland). Both were quite enjoyable.

Steve was lead actor and director of Interview, which is a remake of a recent film by a dutch filmmaker who was assassinated. He was at the screening and answered questions, though I never got called on unfortunately (and I didn't have one of those multiple 3 part questions; "What was your goal for the film as a director versus and actor?"). The end plot twist was a nice finale to the movie. I was surprised at how well the movie moved overall, despite being in one place and with only two actors. Steve and Sienna did an excellent job acting and bringing depth to their characters. They shot the entire movie in 9 days on a budget of under a million. He also said they had rehearsed for two weeks prior to understand the limits of their spontaneous blocking (instead of it being choreographed like a stage play). It's a good movie to go see and not too long, so check it out.

Introducing the Dwights was a fun romantic comedy with a bunch of crazy people. Everyone in that movie was slightly insane or had something weird about them. The acting was pretty good, not my favorite but not distracting. It's mostly about a boy who falls madly in love with a girl and the mama doesn't like it one bit and doesn't want to let go. An Australian production, the US theatrical release isn't until July. Definitely a nice date movie.

Also good movies to check out: Me, You and Everyone We Know (a poetic and extremely odd tale of love, also a sundance and Cannes winner) and I <3 Huckabee's (a philosophical comedy you can enjoy).

Hope you all are having a wonderful summer!