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Monday, November 23, 2009
S&Man (sandman) page live at UnionDocs
The S&MAN page is live at UnionDocs if you want to pre-order tickets.
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And I noticed the comments about where to purchase/see the movie if you're not in NY this weekend. Until it gets a commercial release ("soon," my distributor has been promising for two years), I'm instituting a barter policy. Email me (jt at softfordigging dot com) for my PO Box and send me something good, I'll send you a DVD back. Some things I'm lacking:
- a DVD of Hal Ashby's "8 Million Ways to Die."
- a collection of Enrique Metinides' photography.
- lunch with Gene Wilder
Or whatever, I'm not picky. Hope to see some good people this Sunday.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Vanity Fair
Nice mention of S&Man (sandman) over at Vanity Fair today--
"I find it hard to believe that Hollywood always identifies and promotes the highest-quality work. The best scary movie I’ve seen this year, for instance, J. T. Petty’sS&Man (2006), has never received a wide release and remains nearly impossible to find in video or on the big screen. "
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
S&MAN (sandman) screening in Brooklyn
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UnionDocs is going to be screening S&MAN (Sandman) on Sunday, November 29th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I'm going to be there, along with Erik and Bill Zebub, which should make for the kind of post-screening Q&A we'd tell our grandchildren about if not for consideration of their healthy upbringing. Save the date and use this as an excuse to skip out early from your Thanksgiving filial obligations. The venue's small and will likely sell out, so get your tickets early online. The info:
S&MAN screening
Sunday, November 29th, 7:30pm
UnionDocs
322 Union Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Kids love movies
One of the most overused horror movie cliches of the last nine years is the fact that everything happens in that 4% of America not covered by cell phone service.
Part of my pitch for a FACES OF DEATH remake was always the idea that this device was completely unnecessary. If you've got a group of teens with cell phones when something horrible and violent is happening, they're not going to call for help, they'll use their phones to shoot video of it. Here's a fun little Chris Ware animation of a This American Life segment that illustrates the idea really well:
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Audrey's Door Trailer
Over at Fearnet you can see a trailer I made for my wife Sarah's new book, AUDREY'S DOOR. Official release date is September 29th, but it's already showing up in bookstores. They've got the trailer exclusive for a few days, then I'll embed a version here.
The music in the trailer is On Fillmore, same guys who helped me out for S&MAN and BLOOD RED EARTH. It was shot by Jeremy Saulnier, the director of the brutal and hilarious MURDER PARTY. It was edited and special effected by Chris Connolly, who did the same for BLOOD RED EARTH.
Take a look, hope you love it.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Pen Parentis Reading
Me and the wife'll be taking part in the Pen Parentis reading series in a few weeks. It's an ongoing series of readings by New York authors with children; I believe Sarah and I will be the first couple doing a reading together, (probably an indication of the questionable wisdom of two writers under one roof.) The details:
October 13th, 2009
6pm-8pm
at The Libertine
(inside the Gild Hall Hotel, 15 Gold Street, NYC)
I'll try to find something to read suitably scarring to any Clemency Pogue readers out past their bedtimes.
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