Return of the Critiques

While sifting through old web files on Geocities (it is closing soon), I stumbled upon the critiques that were prepared for The Last Kiss (2000). These original reviews of the film were an application of analytic and evaluative skills that were currently in use at the time in high school, and were yet another way for friends to become involved in the project.

Those critiques and more, including the trailer above, are all found in the Media Layer at the film's official page. More older projects are now in the digitization process for YouTube; up next is Macbeth: Act 1 (2001)!

The First Fest

It's official: At the Core (2006) is soon to be entered into the 2009 Mill Valley Film Festival! Early entry deadline is May 15, and the festival itself is in mid October.

No clips of it are online yet, as I want to make sure doing this wouldn't prevent any sort of festival "world premiere" attributes. Nonetheless, there are several stills and production photos that hold up just fine for now.

BTW, I simply couldn't believe that The Last Kiss (2000) had never been embedded in a News Blog entry before this one! Tada!

BTW#2, The Dog of Pompeii (1999) has now reached 2,000 views on YouTube!

Silly Little Thang

I can't believe I didn't post this sooner: the next (82nd) Academy Awards have been pushed back into March of 2010 from the month before. Why? A silly little thang called the Winter Olympics.

Not much the athelete myself (unless you'd count bowling a sport), I tend to value the Oscars above the Olympics. Maybe it's merely participating in the same genre as the Oscars to "know the sport better". Just a thought.

But yeah, the specific new date is March 7th. I have no idea what movies are yet to fill the race, but I'm really looking forward to Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are.

Decade of Pompeii

Exactly 10 years ago to the day, The Dog of Pompeii (1999) was completed and submitted to the National Children's Film Festival, to eventually become a National Finalist.

To celebrate Pompeii's 10 year anniversary, we've been uploading some extra videos to YouTube, such as the bloopers to that film and a few others.

Speaking of uploading and decades, The Trouble (1999) (which will be 10 years old this fall) has now been added to YouTube as well. Bloopers, too. Enjoy!

Core Photography

In what is the 2nd GPicturama entry of 2009, the official production photos from At the Core (2006) have been posted!

There were actually quite a bit more photos taken, but most did not symbolize or represent that a movie was in production. Instead, they were nice shots of a ranch! So I had to choose wisely, and these were the results.

Soon enough, they'll be viewable from the Media Layer of the movie's page as well, in a scrollable format first introduced by the page for The Nightmare (2007).

Gulf Coast PSA

Yesterday evening, I found a video on YouTube that I actually assisted in the production of during my final semester at CSUMB. Made for a video community service class, my group produced a series of Public Service Announcements to represent the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project, which in 2007 hoped to create 100,000 jobs in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

For this specific PSA, I filmed two significant interviews, particularly that of Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton. The project (Gulf Coast Civic Works Project PSA (2007)) is now listed on this site as well.

Enjoy!

Janitorial / 2000+!

This blog has 2 topics. First, I've done some janitorial work with the Media Layer that I'm still in the process of adding to all of the movie pages.

More specifically, I've added some additional pro PNG images to the same concept of the loading spinner & what's in store: signs representing both Under Construction and Caution (the latter is only used thus far for Abrupt's adult oriented content). We'll see how well this experiment works.

On a completely different note (this is the 2nd topic), in the past day on YouTube, Scenes from Being John Malkovich has surpassed 2000 views! It currently has 2016 and counting: it's the first movie from Thomas Productions to achieve this!