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1. POSTED BY cathar  |  March 26, 2009 @ 7:12 pm

   Okay, I checked out the descriptions of the films, both short and long.
   One is apparently about Amiri Baraka’s “poetry.”
   Another is described as “a short tribute to Aleister Crowley” (saw his old home alongside Loch Ness once, later owned by Jimmy Page, place was badly in need of scraping and painting and the removal of extensive, smelly trash which may have dated back to Crowley’s times).
   There’s a documentary of some kind about Afghan girls playing soccer. And some hip=hop videos. (Yeehah!) Plus something which sounds utterly predictable about a transsexual who goes off to find herself in Paris and a resetting of the Joyce story “The Dead” on a ferryboat in Hoboken, just at less than a third the length of the John Huston movie version. (Croiagusanam, do you want to pencil this one in?) These goodies arejust from the first three pages of a 16-page program, too…
   Oh, and there’s also an annual “Robert Pastorelli Rising Star Award.” But Pastorelli, who never exactly achieved “stardom” on the big screen, was a junkie who OD’ed at 49, and also at the time of his death was a prime suspect in the shooting death of his girlfriend. So he’s certainly an odd figure to honor in this way. (Supposedly rotting in the ground in Sea Girt, however.)
   Honestly, Liz, if this qualifies as a “film festival,” then I’d much rather sit through the original 3 hours and 40 minutes of “Heaven’s Gate” again. Gee, I might even rather sit through the Dodge poetry fest, come to think of it.
   (I also await the rote outrage from some of the usual suspects.)
2. POSTED BY Katzenmutter  |  March 26, 2009 @ 8:45 pm

   Dear God Cathar! Do you get paid per post? Or criticism?
3. POSTED BY complainerpuss  |  March 26, 2009 @ 9:25 pm

   Heaven’s Gate was not one of my favorite movies, but Steven Bach’s “Final Cut” is perhaps my favorite book ever about the making of a film. Though a close second has to be Julie Salamon’s “The Devil’s Candy,” in which she got a bird’s eye view of the making of Bonfire of the Vanities. Greatest moment in that book: during the shoot, when Melanie Griffith returned after a weekend away, with new, augmented breasts. Breast augmentation surgery never a good thing when it comes to continuity.
4. POSTED BY jerseygurl  |  March 27, 2009 @ 7:48 am

   Those are really fun reading, cp. Have you also read Indecent Exposure? That’s the one the made me decide to stay on this coast and away from the movie industry. Begelman actually committed suicide in the 90′s. There’s also the one about Lew Wasserman, “The Last Mogul”. Fun stuff.
5. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  March 27, 2009 @ 8:09 am

   LOL complainerpuss, both great books on the “fun” that is filmmaking.
   The breast issue in “Devil’s Candy” is priceless.
6. POSTED BY complainerpuss  |  March 27, 2009 @ 9:31 am

   You’re certainly right to put “fun” in quotation marks. By the way, one of my favorite movies about making movies is “Living in Oblivion.” When I saw it in the theater, I was still working in film, which is probably why I found it so enjoyable. I’m not so sure it would hold up now. That world seems like an eternity ago.
7. POSTED BY Conan  |  March 27, 2009 @ 10:32 am

   jerseygurl, “Indecent Exposure” is one of the better books written about any industry, let alone film/entertainment. McClintick should write the book on Bernie Madoff, or any of the other major villains out and about today. I was amazed at the infighting (and the inbreeding, seemingly) going on with the Allens, et al. Another one of those stories like the current Wall Street fiasco that makes you wonder how some people get to the top of major corporations in the first place. Think I will dust it off and re-read it — it’s been years.
   But as for the New Jersey Film Festival, I think it might do better with a more compelling name. Perhaps they could call it “Smogdance,” or something like that…
8. POSTED BY Nellie  |  March 27, 2009 @ 10:51 am

   The draw for me would be to see what Asbury Park is looking like these days.
9. POSTED BY Spot The Looney  |  March 27, 2009 @ 11:26 am

   Living in Oblivion is a great obscure movie. Buscemi, Keener and Le Gros are wonderful.
10. POSTED BY matchjames  |  March 27, 2009 @ 1:05 pm

    Asbury is looking fantastic, actually… tons of new restaurants, Boardwalk entirely open with new shops and attractions. It’s come a long way.
11. POSTED BY Mike91  |  March 27, 2009 @ 2:06 pm

    Honestly, Liz, if this qualifies as a “film festival,” then I’d much rather sit through the original 3 hours and 40 minutes of “Heaven’s Gate” again. Gee, I might even rather sit through the Dodge poetry fest, come to think of it.
    Are you under the impression that Liz is running the film festival? Its a legitimate question I think, given your general doddering behavior.
    Or is this an event unworthy of a posting on barista.net: a cultural event not more than an hour and a half from baristaville?

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