i had a three shift movie today...
Just like the Son... a special little film that has an original Plot. AJ ortiz the lead actor came in and i recognized his mom. She was the Admin Assist at Adelphi and i remember meeting AJ and seeing his headshots and his modeling work. I also met grandma who was at the screening. I hope this movie has legs.
"Just Like the Son," directed and written by Morgan J. Freeman (U.S.A.) - World Premiere.
A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas. This charming road movie logs plenty of poignant moments without cloying sentiment. Starring Mark Webber and Rosie Perez.
the second movie i saw was a little sophmoric but the cast made the movie before they hit with other projects.
Darren Giles has lost his college scholarship, can't work up the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams and can't even afford to stay in college another semester. Unless he can survive the teenage dominatrix, New York's largest drug mogul, convince his parents he's not gay, write a paper on Dante's Inferno, escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy in time to make his tuition payment.ast overview, first billed only:
Lou Taylor Pucci .... Darren from Thumbsucker
Kristen Bell .... Gracie from Veronica Mars
John Hensley .... Coleman From Nip and Tuck
Nora Zehetner .... Michelle from everwood
the last movie of the day is the saddest and most impressive- it was subtle and slowly unfolded- telling the story of peoples lost lives through their found photographs
Voices of Bam is a documentary about the earthquake that hit the iranian city of BAM.
20,000 or 30,000 or 60,000 iranis were lost in this natural tragedy- kids are orphaned and parents lost kids-
Voices of Bam
A film by Aliona van der Horst and Maasja Ooms. The documentary had it's premiere at Internationaal Film Festival Rotterdam (January 2006) and is awarded in Nyon (Prix du jury interreligieux) and selected for competition at Tribeca Film Festival NY, Hotdocs and Documenta Madrid.
Ever since the earthquake of December 2003, Bam in Southern Iran is nothing but rubble and ruin. Not only have its walls crumbled, exposing kitchens and courtyards, the hearts of its people too, appear to have fallen open. Like a ghost, the camera drifts through the town, recording the everyday events of Bam’s inhabitants and picking up the intimate, inner conversations they have with their dear departed. In doing so, the film also touches upon the relationship between men and women in Iran and their relationship to God. Above all, ‘Voices of Bam’ is an ode to the indefatigable life-force embodied by the people of this town. The film is inspired by photographs that were recovered from the town’s debris...the only tangible mementoes left of life before the earthquake.
Jury report NYON. The Interreligious Jury awards its prize to Voices of Bam by Aliona van der Horst and Maasja Ooms for reminding us, that after the news cameras have gone, natural disasters leave behind shattered lives to rebuild, difficult questions about God, and decisions to be made, physical and ethical tasks to endure, and losses to be mourned and remembered, as life goes on. The film impressed the jury by its artistic use of photos and voices which bring the dead back to us.
