Wild Eye DVD in the New York Sun!
Film writer Grady Hendrix effuses over Shelley Winters’ mad performance as a Satanic queen in the Wild Eye DVD release of Jeannot Swarc’s The Devil’s Daughter.
http://www.nysun.com/article/64610
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Fay Wray’s 100th Birthday Celebration at New York’s Film Forum
Wow! For the first time I had my press releases picked up and written up into Hollywood Reporter and Variety, online and print! Woo hoo!
(plus a shot-off-the-screen photo of Rick, Fay, Peter Jackson and Naomi Watts in Rick’s apartment in early 2004)
Variety??
Shade Rupe, Susan Riskin, and Rick McKay at NYC’s Film Forum 100th Birthday event for Fay Wray
MEMORIAL FOR THE SUPER FANTASTICALLY AWESOME COOLEST GUY ON EARTH **SHERMAN TORGAN** WHO GAVE US THE NEW BEVERLY CINEMA FOR NEARLY THREE DECADES!!
Sunday August 19, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, FREE ADMISSION – Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Sherman Torgan was one of the shining lights in repertory film exhibition in Los Angeles, an unsung hero and one of the last of the independents. He was a guy who loved movies, knew a lot about movies (all different kinds of movies) and loved to share them with others at his theatre, the New Beverly Cinema. Sherman was a good friend of the American Cinematheque and would always stop in and chat with us when he dropped off his calendar schedules at the Egyptian. We occasionally circuited prints between our theatres when we had dates of the same films booked close together. Like many others who still enjoy seeing movies on the big screen (where they were meant to be seen), all of us here at the Cinematheque gradually got to know and love Sherman. He will be sorely missed.
The Cinematheque will not be screening a film at the memorial. But we will be hearing from numerous friends and associates of Sherman’s, who will offer short testimonials relating their fond memories and experiences of him and the New Beverly.
Spider-Man 3, Suicide Girls, Grindhouse Film Festival 2007, Alejandro Jodorowsky at GreenCine
Man, it’s been a busy several months. Here are a couple fun articles for May. I decided to visit Los Angeles in February for two weeks and ended up staying for two months. I sadly missed out on visiting my friend Chris Sivertson’s film set for I Know Who Killed Me by days, though that was because I was staying with Ulli Lommel in Marina Del Rey and had no car and Ulli had asked me to help him rewrite a script. So that was cool, Marina del Rey was cool, and Hollywood was even more fun. There was the amazing Grindhouse Film Festival put on by Quentin Tarantino at Sherman Torgan’s New Beverly Cinema that went on for two months. That was the main reason I stayed actually, was to see all those movies projected, and with such a great crowd. Tons of fun!
If you’re on your way to Spider-Man 3, and you dropped by here on the way, you have something else to look forward to besides how cool Venom is. Check out the man with the beard cheering for Spider-Man at City Hall in the clip below.
A couple articles:
I am alive!
It’s been way too long. Since my last post I’ve been to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, San Diego, Toronto, Montreal, Barcelona, Sitges (where both Alejandro Jodorwosky and Richard Stanley [see photo] were guests; astounding), Mount Rainier, and Williamsburg and Luray, VA. Busy! Now pretty much camped out in New York as Dark Sky is done and I’m freelancing around and selling stuff and all that. I really do need to figure out how to do this picture stuff too. Tons of great pictures to post. More later, but yes, I am alive!
THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS – ASIA ARGENTO NEW YORK PREMIERE AND PARTY
Wow! A) I’ve had a great time with this film since I first contacted Wild Bunch about finding a US distributor. I’ve seen this movie like 6 or 8 times, and before last night my most recent viewing was at the Longbaugh Film Festival in Portland where I booked the film (along with Tobe Hooper’s Toolbox Murders and the making-of Toolbox, Toolbox: As It Was by Kevin Ford and Chris Sivertson). So it was great to see this ‘little movie’ at the Loews on 42nd Street with a full house.
Asia did a funny Q&A afterwards where everyone kept asking her about JT Leroy (yawn) and I asked her about more directing efforts, then we made our way up to the Hudson for the after-party. So much fun!
I have to say that one of the great things about all this stuff is being able to meet and know some really great people. Film people can be so much fun! Sure, some are jerks, but I feel lucky. Some of the shining stars making this party swirl were underground filmmaker Nick Zedd, Asia Argento herself, glam photographer Mick Rock, executive producer Lilly Bright (the movie is called HEART for a reason), Richard Barone of the Bongos, Aristedes DuVal, myself, my pal Allen Hale, this hot dancing girl Shannon (sure wish I exchanged numbers; I can ask Richard), and more. Very very fun with free yummy sweet martinis that I’m sure have some kind of name.
Asia DJ’d a lot of ’80s tunes with a smattering of modern techno.
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is sadly mostly going to get washed in all the JT Leroy stuff, but I’m sure some will also see the film itself, and what this great crew has put into it.
Yay!
Nick Zedd and Asia Argento
Getting a little closer than Asia expected…
I hate it when I’m an idiot
I went to exchange a CD holder thing at Best Buy and thought I should bring my passport. I put it in the front pocket of one of those puffy lumberjack like shirts, and left.
I took it off once to use the bathroom at Starbucks at 24th and 6th. A woman was knocking so i hurriedly put myself together, and there was no coat rack so I set it on top of my bags. A woman came in after me.
20 minutes later I get out of the cab at 51st and 9th and realize I don’t have my passport. I actually don’t believe it fell out at Starbucks. I feel that somehow while I was sleeping in the cab that the passport became dislodged. Amazingly, for something I have lost before (left it at Disneyland Paris in 2004 and couldn’t come back to the states) and something I love (all my international stamps: Poland, France, England, Spain, Italy, Canada) you’d think I would button my shirt up or put the passport in my bag.
I’m really amazed that it’s gone actually. Everything else is in my pockets. My wallet, which I just started using days ago, loose money, everything. My passport is the biggest item, and it was in a plastic protective cover.
On the way home in the cab, and the only reason I took a cab was because I was so incredibly tired, I felt something fall from me to the floor. I felt it was my cap, which I had just bought for $1. I felt on the floor, didn’t feel a cap, then realized it was on my head. I saw someone else’s cap with writing on it in the foot area next to me, and didn’t think to pick it up and give it to the driver. If I had, would I have seen my passport?
And it looks like a new passport is $100… so to exchange a CD holder with a mark on it, which I saved $10 on anyway, I have lost something cool that would’ve been cool to scan with all those stamps, something to put in a box and pull out in 50 years, and I need $100 to get a new one, and I need it in two weeks so I can board an airplane. Un-real.
Boy, to have that ability to do some of life’s simple decisions over again…
It’s been awhile!
Boy! Been awhile since I’ve posted. Got really busy once I started working with hereDark Sky Films. So far this year I’ve been to:
Portland, OR, London, Rome, Florence, Venice, Los Angeles, Montreal, Chicago, Toronto, Madrid, Sitges, Barcelona
Whew! I’ve met a zillion cool people and have been having tons of fun and seeing tons of movies. For Hollywood type movies Brokeback Mountain is a fave. I liked King Kong enough to see it twice, but that Jack Black guy sucks. He was such a dork at the King Kong world premiere party. Adrien Brody is cool, Fran Walsh is always excellent, and George Lucas was very nice to meet. I wish I talked to him a little more, but maybe next time.
There’s really so much to report, but I’ve got to get back into the swing of this.
S.
Star Wars midnight premiere at the Zeigfeld
Had a great time doing this and had some heart-tugging realizing this is probably the last movie ever to have such a cool opening. They are still lining up at the Zeigfeld even though it’s playing at shoeboxes all over town. So nice to see lines at the Zeigfeld again, just wish it was exclusive so it would play for months.
AOL Moviefone was there doing little video things and amazing they chose my pic to advertise their video plays. Brought to my attention by the great Dallas Mayr. Quick digital pic here.
And here’s the link to the video:
http://movies.channel.aol.com/feature/starwars/episode_3_video.adp
