I was still living in Cyprus in 1994 and seeing most movies via camcorder bootlegs on VHS. Even if you went to the actual video store to rent something, it would be a camcorder bootleg. And almost all would come from the Middle East so anything remotely questionable was censored out. Even when Aladdin and Jasmine kissed in our copy of ALADDIN, it would just cut to a black screen. So for a full year (and probably thirty viewings) I…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
I was in Little Rock, AR during the first 9 weeks of this film's release, including its widest point of saturation, but it never opened there. So grateful to live in LA where not only could I still go see this 13 weeks into its run, but inside a mall no less.
Also, this winning Best Sound at the Oscars earlier in the evening instantly justifies the decision to consolidate that category. Three years ago it would have lost Best…
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The Power of the Dog 2021
It's a shame that almost everyone is gonna watch this on Netflix because about an hour into my 2pm showtime today, an old man walked in, stood at the front and watched a solid 90 seconds of Cumberbatch castrating a cow before turning to all of us and loudly asking, "This not the Gucci movie?" And I think Jane Campion wouldn't have it any other way.
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Little Fish 2020
Hey! I directed this movie. We shot it in the Spring of 2019 and had hoped to play at film festivals and get released in 2020 but a pandemic happened and changed everything. For a while, we weren't sure if we could release the movie at all. It was all of a sudden something completely different than we ever intended it to be now that the world was actually experiencing what was meant to be science fiction in our film.…