Terrorizing Dissent, a documentary film on the protests that took place in St Paul, MN during the 2008 Republican National Convention will be screening at Bryant Lake Bowl this upcoming Monday. Members of the RNC8 will be on hand to talk about the events and donations are being accepted to help aid in their legal defense.
While yet to be formally announced, Where the Long Tail Ends has learned that the 27th Annual Minneapolis/St Paul International Film Festival is planning to name World’s Greatest Dad as the opening night film for the festival. The film is garnering solid buzz and certainly appears to be an interesting and promising film, but even more interesting is the director of the film, who will be in attendance to Intro the film and open the festival. That’s right, Bobcat Goldthwait is opening the 2009 MSPIFF.
Try and top that Toronto International Film Festival!
Interview with Bobcat Goldthwait about World’s Greatest Dad
Little slow withh this update due to technical difficulties, but an update is an update.
Talk Cinema is once again at the Landmark Edina Cinema today, Saturday, April 4th. As usual a discussion will be held after the screening and coffee is provided free of chrge. Bagels are also available to puurchase and the concession stand will be open for those who want popcorn or Diet Coke with their 10am movie. Students should try and make the trip, as the $5 student ticket price for films that won’t be released for weeks/months is the best deal in the Twin Cities.
As for the film being shown, it won’t be released for several months, so today’s screening will be a bit of a coup for those in attendance. If you want to keep the mystery, stop reading now, otherwise, a trailer for the film is hidden after the break for those who like to rin the surprise.
I first was introduced to the work of Alex Karpovsky back in 2006 when The Hole Story was screened at the Minneapolis/St Paul International Film Festival. The Hole Story was an incredibly unique film that seamlessly melded fiction and non-fiction into a wonderfully funny and melancholy story about one man’s dream to try and make a pilot for his television show.
With Woodpecker Karpovsky once again uses his unique style of mixing fact and fiction, this time focusing on the fervor surrounding the sightings of the previously presumed extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the bayous of eastern Arkansas. Following one ardent bird watcher (Jon Hyrns) as he attempts to become the first person to definitively prove the elusive birds existence, Karpovsky also interviews many of the locals who are both thankful and frustrated by the birds sudden reappearance.
After last week’s hijacking of the column in favor of hanging out with some old friends I knew this week I could have no excuse for not writing a review on Vampyr. Sure the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival opened this week but that wouldn’t get in my way. Yes, the multiplexes actually had a small handful of potentially decent movies for me to watch but that couldn’t possibly get in my way. And sure, I had a screening of the uncut version of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly that I simply had to go to and Manda Bala burning up my Netflix queue but those were mere distractions while I prepared myself for Vampyr. Awesome distractions to be sure but they shouldn’t do anything more then slow me down. Then Ben Folds had to go and muck up my whole plans.
You see my girlfriend bought tickets to go see Ben Folds in concert this past Saturday night but somewhere along the way both of us, along with a friend of ours, somehow mistook the concert venue of St. Peter, Minnesota for St. Paul, Minnesota. We didn’t really think much of it at first, but once we MapQuested it we saw the error of our ways. See St. Peter, Minnesota was over an hour south of the Twin Cities. Needless to say this had a rather large effect on our plans.
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