Let’s just Obama it
Posted: December 8, 2010 Filed under: Arkeofilms, movies | Tags: Arkeofilms, documentaries, editing, filmmaking, movies Leave a comment »She said: Bravo. You make such vantastic vilm! Is brilliant!
Monster: {Heeh} Thank you.
She said: You make one-hour version!
Monster: {Eyes pop, a teeny hopefully unnoticeable jaw drop} Uhhhh…you mean cut it by almost 30 minutes???
She said: You muz maximize the vilm!
Monster: I didn’t maximize it by making it?
She said: You arteests. Always kidding. Nobody iz going to zee your vilm except a handful of people in tiny festivals. All you want is to make your babies and not share it with the world. {She looks at my producer instead}
She said to producer: You tell her to make the cut. She make it one hour or vat a peeti! One time artist say no to me, he regret it. You do not make vilm for yourself, you know.
Producer to Monster: You can make that cut, yes?
{Are you people telling me that this is not going to stop happening until all my hair is gone? I really have to do this? But but I just want to save my…}
Monster: Yes I can!
I am a baby shark…
Posted: December 3, 2010 Filed under: Arkeofilms, Kano | Tags: Arkeofilms, filmmaking, Kano, Life Change Leave a comment »I keep seeing this really nice nugget from Margie’s wallpaper: “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” This aggravates me sometimes because it reminds me of things I should be doing that I’m not doing at that moment.
How it would be nice to start obsessing over my next project, but it seems unfair to the one I just finished…But I didn’t know that after you’re done with a film, you’re never really done with it for a good while. There are screenings to attend, questions to answer (why did you make such a film???), speeches, and parties (which are fun sometimes I admit) and all the things that are apparently part of the game.
This is not a complaint but more of a realization that these things really take a whole heck of time! (So maybe I’m complaining an itty bitty bit) It’s really hard to get all worked up on the next thing. I’m not a recluse enough or strange enough to be removed from the normal activities of the unglamorous part of filmmaking- firm handshake, halo! yes of course…hearty laugh followed by intense look so as to project sincerity and good listening skills. I can do it, I will do it, but never losing focus of what to do next.
Because that is the main thing.
If I don’t keep swimming I will drown.
Writing about writers / Films about filmmakers
Posted: October 8, 2009 Filed under: movies | Tags: filmmakers, filmmaking, films, ishmael bernal, movies, nick hornby, pagdating sa dulo, writers Leave a comment »
Dalhin mo lolo mo, kaya ko syang gawing artista.
Nick Hornby has had it with novels about writers. It’s so pa-bida I guess. But the thing is Mr. Hornby, hee hee…I actually like movies about movies. Which reveals a suspicion of too much self-importance…but what can I do? I love Day For Night. I love Living in Oblivion. And now that I just saw Bernal’s first film, Pagdating Sa Dulo, I love it too!
But yes Mr. Hornby, I have to agree, novels about writers have reached their quota.
