With my film festival schedule pretty full this week, I don't really have much in the way of goals other than to make it to all the films I've booked.
So far, it's been a pretty good festival.
I saw a documentary about The Pogues frontman, Shane McGowan which was excellent, if very sad. The man is a wreck from drinking and can barely speak anymore.
I went to the world premiere of local film Millie Lies Low which was great too. I've read the script a few times for work, and it's always so nice to see a script you enjoyed come to life even better than it looked on the page. I had such anxiety for poor Millie the whole way through the film!
Yesterday was a double feature with Mass first up. It's a powerful film, but harrowing. I cried for about the last third of it. Stunning acting from all four lead actors. The tensions was lessened a little by the fact there was an earthquake partway through which took my focus off the screen for a couple of minutes while I tried to figure out if the weird rattling sound was part of the soundtrack or something real.
I closed out the weekend with a classic Rainer Werner Fassbinder film, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. I've seen it before, but never on the big screen. Marvellously melodramatic. I remembered there being a really long opening scene in a bizarrely decorated bedroom, but I think must have forgotten that in fact the whole film is set in that room. It's very theatrical, but once again, fabulous acting from all the women involved.
I have a night off tonight, then back into it tomorrow.
What are your goals this week?
An earthquake DURING the movie? Wow. It must not have been a big one if it was only a distraction. I hope the rest of the festival is less eventful!
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