Iron Shield Film
Friend Chad Madden has created an excellent short film that has been accepted into the Doorpost Film Project film festival. Watch and vote for him here.
***Voting does take a bit of work, but it’s worth it, knowing your supporting the hard work of an up-and-coming filmmaker. So, if you’d like to enable Chad to move forward with his dreams, BEFORE you watch Iron Shield on Doorpost Film’s website, click on Vote Now in the bottom left corner of the film window… Click on the pink splotchy blob that says “Online Voting Now Open”… Create a profile… Watch Chad’s film and give it really high ratings and glowing, gushing, adoring comments… Watch and rate 4 other films in order for your vote to count (You can watch the other films while shopping eBay, checking Facebook, whathaveyou)… Enjoy the rest of your day. Chad’s prize for winning, you may ask? A decent budget to make a bigger short film. A vote for Chad Madden is a vote for freedom.
Who Does She Think She Is?
It’s a film about women struggling to live as wives/mothers AND artists. It is exactly what I am trying to figure out, and I don’t even have kids yet.
The Impact of Movie Lines on Feelings About the Approaching Season
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
So goes one of my favorite lines from the 1998 Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan classic, You’ve Got Mail. Today feels like the perfect day to buy school supplies. It’s overcast and drizzly, summer is almost gone, and I just got back from a big vacation abroad. How very Bonnie Wheeler of me. (Bonnie was my medieval studies professor at university who always spent her summers in France at a monastery with her likewise professorial husband.)
There is something magical about this time of year. The urge to be intellectually and creatively productive is immense.
I also just bought a new blazer that will be perfect for fall and a puffy coat that would have been perfect for life in Boston. So the desire for autumnal weather is strong.
Go buy yourself some new pencils. It will feel good.
Where The Wild Things Are Contest
Grand Prize: two tickets to the New York City big screen premiere of this beloved children’s story, travel and hotel accommodations for two, and one $500 Urban Outfitters gift card, all courtesy of the hipster megastore. Donning of super-duper skinny jeans optional, but encouraged.
No Impact Man Movie
One man, “his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle[,] and their two year-old daughter” are living for a year without making any environmental impact. Author Colin Beavan takes his family on quite the journey in this new movie, coming to theaters September 4. While I question the do-ability of their endeavor, I’ll certainly be entertained watching them try.
Food, Inc.
For an an up close and personal look at the American food industry, don’t miss Robert Kenner’s new film, Food, Inc. Movies like Super Size Me and King Corn first introduced me to our postmodern U.S. food monster––one of the many reasons I decided to plant a garden.
