daniel johnston movie???

[gina164]

Thank you for the warm welcome, Henry...(and Jeff )....
and also for the 'extra avatar' explanation, Stallion....

"Lazy bum" now makes sense......
I like "Yippee," though...but, not enough that it will keep me from posting more and chancing whatever add'l avatar will be tagged onto my kitty with the lime helmet...That one is too cute, huh?


So, Henry...are your 'from' Philly? Thanks for sharing about yourself...I enjoyed learning about another 'Dan fan.'

My history:
I was born in Philadelphia and lived in the city 'til age 11...then lived in Yardley, PA 'til 15 (along Delaware River)...then in L.A. area (Palos Verdes peninsula) 'til age 17...

Have since lived in Westwood Village (UCLA undergrad), then Redondo Beach, then Memphis, TN (Univ of Memphis grad school), then back to LA again (taught elementary school in South Central LA - pre and post riots), then 3 years at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma (AKA 'the middle of nowhere') when my hubby at the time began his career as a clinical psychologist in the AF, then to San Antonio for his post-PhD Fellowship program...got amicably divorced there (no kids), stayed there as a single person, taught there, remarried there, and divorced again there (for 9 years I actually lived closer to Dan's music, but not close enough to have learned of him in SA at that time)...

...anyway, then I moved on to Northern Cal (Bay area) one year ago this March 7th, to join up with some family that had migrated North from Southern Cal...to be an auntie, since I have no kiddos.

Anyway, I am now happily in love again...I took 'him' (Paul) to see the film with me...he enjoyed it, and now understands why I 'got into' Dan's music and art...(since he knows my family and has visited my disabled sis with me)...

So...there's 'me in a nutshell'...gee, that sounds like it could be a title to one of Dan's pieces of artwork...


I like him so much...it's funny...He is the first artist/performer that I have have a genuine sense of who he really is...so much so, that I truly like him and would befriend him, no questions asked, if I met him...kinda weird...never felt like that before about any other singer/artist...guess that's the thing about mental ilness...you can't hide your core when you're falling apart in front of a camera...you can't help but be 'you'...'all of you'...

Because of my sister's life, and being so close in age to her, and from seeing her go through so many similar experiences as Dan, I can't help but 'feel' for Dan, and I also want to thank him for  sharing his reality through his music and art (I actually sent him an e-mail saying thank you)...

...a reality that 'most normal people' have loads of defense mechanisms built up to 'deal with'/avoid/become oblivious to, etc...

It takes courage to face reality....even more so for those with mental illness...to work through it in front of others takes even more courage...

So, even though I know that I haven't met Dan in person, I feel as if I have...I feel I know him better than many people I have met in person, and even some I have known my entire life! That's amazing...

Well...there's 'my connection,' I guess...

I also hope that "The Alliance  for the Mentally Ill" (AMI) will help to promote the film among their members.
I know that my parents benefitted greatly from going to AMI meetings, to help them through my sister's trials with M-D...
And, I also know that seeing the film was cathartic for me, as a sibling of a manic-depressive...If/when it comes out on DVD, it would be great to see some families of other mentally ill people give their reactions to the film...I feel the film will add to raising awareness of the mentally ill, and those who are/have been close to 'them'...

Well...thanks for listening...
Time to go pick up my 4-year-old niece...am 'baby'-sitting tonight.

Oh...Henry...you asked what CDs I got...

I have:

Songs of Pain
Lucky Sperms
1990
Discovered Covered

And now 11 tapes, too (Hi, again, Jeff!)

Adios, amigos...until next time -
Gina

[devilfan]

http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_050323sony.html

Sony Classics Adds to Slate, Closing "2046" Deal & More

by Eugene Hernandez

Wong Kar-Wai's striking new film, "2046," is finally coming to America, with a deal for the film announced ten months after the film had its tumultuous world premiere at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The company, which has also announced a pact for Neil Jordan's "Breakfast on Pluto" and is said to be pursuing Jeff Feuerzeig's "The Devil and Daniel Johnston," has apparently set an autumn release date for Wong Kar-Wai's new film that will have its U.S. premiere next month at the Tribeca Film Festival.

"2046" premiered late at Cannes 2004, missing its festival debut when the film was not quite ready; Wong brought the movie to Cannes late and unveiled the film amidst critical complaints that it felt unfinished. He later re-worked the film before it opened in China at the end of September. Some U.S. fans have already caught a glimpse of the anticipated new movie via Asian DVDs on sale even here in New York City video stores or online.


Describing the film, which in many parts bore a strong resemblance to his last movie, "In the Mood for Love," Wong Kar-Wai said at a Cannes press conference, "The film is actually a portrait of a person who is trying to get away from his past -- the more you try to forget it, the more you remember it, maybe one day the past or the memory will leave you." The title marks the year 50 years after the handover of Hong Kong back to China. "How you deal with your past (is) not only about a person, it can be a city, it can be about anything," Wong summed up. Fortissimo represented the film and negotiated the sale.

Last week, Sony Classics also announced a deal for North American, Latin American, German, and South African rights to Neil Jordan's "Breakfast on Pluto," starring Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson and Bryan Ferry.

Finally, SPC is understood to be in pursuit of Jeff Feuerzeig's doc "The Devil and Daniel Johnston," while a deal has not yet been confirmed. The film, which premiered at Sundance 2005 and also screened at SXSW, will screen next Wednesday and Friday at New Directors/New Films in Manhattan.

[wickedwill]

Thank you for the warm welcome, Henry...(and Jeff )....
and also for the 'extra avatar' explanation, Stallion....

"Lazy bum" now makes sense......
I like "Yippee," though...but, not enough that it will keep me from posting more and chancing whatever add'l avatar will be tagged onto my kitty with the lime helmet...That one is too cute, huh?


So, Henry...are your 'from' Philly? Thanks for sharing about yourself...I enjoyed learning about another 'Dan fan.'

My history:
I was born in Philadelphia and lived in the city 'til age 11...then lived in Yardley, PA 'til 15 (along Delaware River)...then in L.A. area (Palos Verdes peninsula) 'til age 17...

Have since lived in Westwood Village (UCLA undergrad), then Redondo Beach, then Memphis, TN (Univ of Memphis grad school), then back to LA again (taught elementary school in South Central LA - pre and post riots), then 3 years at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma (AKA 'the middle of nowhere') when my hubby at the time began his career as a clinical psychologist in the AF, then to San Antonio for his post-PhD Fellowship program...got amicably divorced there (no kids), stayed there as a single person, taught there, remarried there, and divorced again there (for 9 years I actually lived closer to Dan's music, but not close enough to have learned of him in SA at that time)...

...anyway, then I moved on to Northern Cal (Bay area) one year ago this March 7th, to join up with some family that had migrated North from Southern Cal...to be an auntie, since I have no kiddos.

Anyway, I am now happily in love again...I took 'him' (Paul) to see the film with me...he enjoyed it, and now understands why I 'got into' Dan's music and art...(since he knows my family and has visited my disabled sis with me)...

So...there's 'me in a nutshell'...gee, that sounds like it could be a title to one of Dan's pieces of artwork...


I like him so much...it's funny...He is the first artist/performer that I have have a genuine sense of who he really is...so much so, that I truly like him and would befriend him, no questions asked, if I met him...kinda weird...never felt like that before about any other singer/artist...guess that's the thing about mental ilness...you can't hide your core when you're falling apart in front of a camera...you can't help but be 'you'...'all of you'...

Because of my sister's life, and being so close in age to her, and from seeing her go through so many similar experiences as Dan, I can't help but 'feel' for Dan, and I also want to thank him for  sharing his reality through his music and art (I actually sent him an e-mail saying thank you)...

...a reality that 'most normal people' have loads of defense mechanisms built up to 'deal with'/avoid/become oblivious to, etc...

It takes courage to face reality....even more so for those with mental illness...to work through it in front of others takes even more courage...

So, even though I know that I haven't met Dan in person, I feel as if I have...I feel I know him better than many people I have met in person, and even some I have known my entire life! That's amazing...

Well...there's 'my connection,' I guess...

I also hope that "The Alliance  for the Mentally Ill" (AMI) will help to promote the film among their members.
I know that my parents benefitted greatly from going to AMI meetings, to help them through my sister's trials with M-D...
And, I also know that seeing the film was cathartic for me, as a sibling of a manic-depressive...If/when it comes out on DVD, it would be great to see some families of other mentally ill people give their reactions to the film...I feel the film will add to raising awareness of the mentally ill, and those who are/have been close to 'them'...

Well...thanks for listening...
Time to go pick up my 4-year-old niece...am 'baby'-sitting tonight.

Oh...Henry...you asked what CDs I got...

I have:

Songs of Pain
Lucky Sperms
1990
Discovered Covered

And now 11 tapes, too (Hi, again, Jeff!)

Adios, amigos...until next time -
Gina

Gina164
GREAT POST!!! Good to see new fans on the board and even nicer when they tell a little about themselves!! See a few new fans on the board but its usually a few lines then we never hear from them again. Stick around!

[The Devil]

Here's an updated list of screenings:

Film Society of Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Series

March 30  New York City  6:00 PM at The Museum of Modern Art
April 1      New York City  8:45 PM at The Museum of Modern Art

Nashville Film Festival

April 17    Nashville  9:30 at The Regal Green Hills Cinemas (Theater 16)
April 19    Nashville  9:30 at The Regal Green Hills Cinemas (Theater 16)

[Stress Records]

The April 19th screening in Nashville will be at 12:30 PM and not 9:30. Stupid Devil!  

Here's an updated list of screenings:

Film Society of Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Series

March 30  New York City  6:00 PM at The Museum of Modern Art
April 1      New York City  8:45 PM at The Museum of Modern Art

Nashville Film Festival

April 17    Nashville  9:30 at The Regal Green Hills Cinemas (Theater 16)
April 19    Nashville  9:30 at The Regal Green Hills Cinemas (Theater 16)

[devilfan]

NYTIMES REVIEW

Stephen Holden sucks eggs.  

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/movies/29dire.html

Behold the Hodgepodge: Weird Heroes, Sorry Lives and Even (Yes) Beauty

By STEPHEN HOLDEN, MANOHLA DARGIS and A. O. SCOTT

Published: March 29, 2005



In its final stretch, the New Directors/New Films festival continues to offer up a tasting menu of the good, the respectable and the forgettable. Now in its 34th year, this joint venture of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the department of film and media at the Museum of Modern Art remains a valuable if not necessarily essential resource for those who like a little bite (if not too much) to their art-house fare.

One of the truisms of the movie marketplace is that even as big companies have been swallowed up by multinationals there has been a modest but nonetheless notable increase in the number of independent outlets. In New York you can find alternatives to multiplex fodder every day of the week in the form of festivals, special screenings and programs like the recently completed Film Comment Selects, a mix of the old (dusted-off classics by veterans like Alain Tanner) and the new (outrages by the sizzling-hot likes of Takashi Miike) from the bimonthly magazine published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

It's hard to know how New Directors fits into this changing landscape. It touts itself as "one the country's premier showcases for the work of fresh and unsung international and American filmmakers." That is a generous appraisal, even by flack standards. This year's event includes a handful of local premieres, but 19 of the 25 features were shown last year at other events, including the February 2004 Berlin film festival. More problematic is the festival's claim to fresh and unsung work, as 10 of the features this year already have American distribution. Indeed, two of the stronger entries, "Kontroll" and "Primo Amore," are opening soon in New York. (Reviews of these films will appear this week.)

More intelligently packaged than some higher-profile festivals, New Directors/New Films has neither a clear curatorial focus nor a plausible mandate. Like many festivals these days, it weighs in as a hodgepodge of the slick and the crude, the cynical and the sincere, with the usual lineup of bad boys and wayward hotties. Of course good, even very good films are shown and the festival's commitment to a spectrum of international work remains commendable, particularly given how tough it is to sell contemporary audiences on foreign-language cinema. But it is open to debate whether a grab bag of Kind of New Directors and Not Really New Films really represents the best efforts from two of the city's most important film institutions.

'The Devil and Daniel Johnston'
Directed by Jeff Feuerzeig
6 p.m. tomorrow, the Museum of Modern Art; 8:45 p.m. Friday, the Museum of Modern Art


The word "genius" is applied so promiscuously to the singer, songwriter, cartoonist and filmmaker Daniel Johnston in this documentary portrait that you may be misled into thinking that the subject is, if not the reincarnation of Leonardo da Vinci, at least worthy of mention in the same breath with the Beatles. If there are signs of raw talent in the work of this prolific artist who writes childlike ditties with titles like "Casper, the Friendly Ghost" and sings in the yelp of a wounded puppy, none suggest anything approaching genius. Prolonged infantilism? Yes. Psychotic grandiosity? Yes. Adoration by fans who confuse brilliance with madness? Definitely. Brought up in a Christian fundamentalist family in Virginia, Mr. Johnston has waged a lifelong struggle against manic depression. He became the darling of the underground rock scene in Austin, Tex., and attracted the endorsement of musicians like Sonic Youth and Kurt Cobain. This well made but fawning documentary is symptom of a tendency in the United States to equate weirdness with artistic brilliance. HOLDEN

[The Devil]

Holden is a long time hater so this was to be expected.

[notdaniel]

Holden is a long time hater so this was to be expected.

Huh. I thought that Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman (who recently wrote: "[Daniel Johnston] demonstrates about as much talent as Chauncey Gardiner") was the last of the old "asshole for the sake of being an-asshole" school of film reviewers.

Admittedly, if there a notable flaw to the movie, it's that the choice of songs heard throughout doesn't include a lot of tunes that a first-time listener would recognize immediately as being simply tip-top songwriting. The last five or ten minutes almost seem like an attempt to make up for this, with the full-length play of the lovely and accessible "Held the Hand" and "Some Things Last a Long Time." For that reason, it seems like there should've been a complete K. McCarty cut included in there somewhere, like Living Life or some other key track from Dead Dog's Eyeball.

  - still Not Daniel after all these years

[devilfan]

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19760

Let's send this guy hate mail in the form of trannie porn.

[Anonymous]

...let's send something else  

Laura the tranny and DJ fan ...

[dbeefy]

Wow. what a lot of vitriol from the AICN guy.  To write like that he must have had a strong reaction to the film. He's probably just trying to be hip -in-reverse.

[dbeefy]

er, ok, i am also "Laura the tranny" here./.. just another aspect of my personality. If this seems weird don't worry about it, just that there are are a hell of a lot of different people on this earth

//and we can all get along.

Db / L

Keeping it going for Daniel, which is why were all here.....

[misslaura]

did u mean miss laura the trannie from austin, texas?  aka u.l. moses?  long live the pink flamingo!

[Anonymous]

we get everywhere

[inthezoo]

thanks for mentioning the full-play songs there (about three posts before this). i was about to ask if anyone knew what the song was called, to which daniel was dancing very excentric at the end of the film. but you say "held the hand"? that's nice. i loved it. and everyone who haven't seen it yet: watch your backs! it will blow you away, eventually.

and hello, i'm new. calling from copenhagen.

love.