I’ve been pretty silent on tumblr recently. I’ll tell you why. Things are a-changin and it’s great!!
First of all, my movie watching did nto stop after Boondock Saints 2. The films I’ve seen since then include The Box (eh), Pirate Radio (enjoyable), 2012 (another disaster movie that looked better than it was), Twilight: New Moon (after so much hype, I hoped for better), Christmas Carol (in IMAX 3D, really fun), Precious (really good), Men Who Stare at Goats (kinda funny), The Fourth Kind (kinda disturbing) , This Is It (could watch this over and over again) , Inglourious Basterds (for a 3rd time since Ashley didn’t see it), 12 Monkeys (classic) , most of Cirque du Freak: Vampire’s Assistant, and of course Fantastic Mr. Fox. Aside from these that I saw in theatres, I also saw Away We Go, The Girlfriend Experience, The Omega Man, Once Upon a Time in the West, and High Fidelity on DVD.
Fantastic Mr. Fox was really good by the way. I really enjoyed it. It looked amazing. I read in LA Weekly that they avoided digital effects of any kind as much as possible and put a lot of time into making the little sets just right. It shows and looks great. I love Wes Anderson as well as the book by Roald Dahl (well, when I was a kid anyways). The dysfunctional family was of course present, as it is in all Wes Anderson movies, but in a way left everyone happy at the end, more so than his other films, which was nice. It’s a fun little family film.
In regards to the changes in my life, it all really started because of my working at the American Film Market in Santa Monica a few weeks ago. I sent around 150-200 emails the week before the market asking exhibitors if they needed help. For those who don’t know, the AFM is one of the largest independent film markets in the world. Anyone who is anyone in the indie film world is there (companies that is) buying and selling film rights. I was lucky enough to get picked up by a British company called Independent Film. They are responsible for selling titles like Moon. They also have a production arm that is doing a feature with Tilda Swinton, among other things. They were great to work for and since I was there working for them I got access to the entire market. This was the best thing ever. I got to work in the actual film industry. The films I heard people talk about there are what we will be seeing in indie film for the next year. I met people from companies I would love to end up at like Focus, Lionsgate, and Sony. I also got to learn loads about film sales. The people at Independent were so helpful in teaching me about what they were doing. I got to see how deals go down. It’s an interesting process to be sure. I woundn’t mind going into film sales.
So anyway, I got a number of responses from my e-mail, some of which were saying no to the market but yes to something in the future. These were some of the companies that I spoke with in person at the market to put a face to my e-mails. A few companies seemed very interested in me, which was great, and this market gave me this great opportunity to meet them professionally instead of just cold calling or stopping in an office somewhere.
So after the market, I was offered a job from a company called Brand-in Entertainment!! They do like product placement in movies and tv, basically brand integration. They’ve got an office in Marina Del Rey so I’ll be working there part-time M-F! So I’m working in entertainment now for real! My first day is Monday and I’m so excited to finally start. It’s taken me like 5 months to land a steady gig. Hopefully this is the start of me not being dirt poor and just regular poor, as I will continue to work at the movie theatre as well. Wish me luck.
and Happy Thanksgiving!
Next up, probably Old Dogs (even though I’ve heard it had atrocious reviews) and The Road.




