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Live in Chicago' Want to see 30 mins of the STAR WARS love-letter indie 5-25-77!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with something rather cool for you Chicago... ites? ...ians? For you folks in Chicago, anyway. Patrick Read Johnson is a director that I particularly like. He hasn't done much recently, but I hold a soft spot for ANGUS (I mean, it's the fat kid who gets the hot blonde chick!) and I LOVE SPACED INVADERS. That movie rocks... Anyway, he's got himself a labor of love called 5-25-77 all about how his life changed when he saw STAR WARS on that particular date. This film promises to be DAZED AND CONFUSED for the geeks out there. And it's produced by Gary Kurtz, producer of the original STAR WARS flicks. All kinds of geek goodness surrounding this project.
I'm hearing rumor that PRJ might be bringing this 30 minute preview to the Alamo Drafthouse here in Austin, so I'll have to wait until after you lucky Chicago peoples get a peek. Make sure you let me know how it is! Anyway, all the info is below! Enjoy!
The Illinois premiere of the award-winning Lifelike and a preview of the feature 5-25-77 headline another outstanding program as the Midwest Independent Film Festival presents the fourth installment of its 2005 season. On Tuesday, August 2nd at 6 p.m. the festivities will be hosted by Chicago's beautiful Landmark Century Centre Cinema, 2828 North Clark.
Lifelike was named Best Dramatic Short at the 2005 Wisconsin Film Festival and was awarded the Platinum Remi in the Dramatic Short Film Category at the 38th Annual Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival. Lifelike is the directorial debut of John Besmer and was produced through Double Dutch Films, a Chicago-based production company run by Leigh Jones and Kodak's Ericka Frederick and Besmer's P Star Pictures, based in Madison, Wisconsin. The film features acclaimed Chicago actors Rob Riley, Annabel Armour and Brian Hamman and award winning cinematographer David Blood.
5-25-77 is an autobiographical, coming-of-age story from writer/director Patrick Read Johnson (Angus). It tells the true story of Johnson's final, life-changing senior year in high school as the only science-fiction-obsessed teen filmmaker in his rural hometown of Wadsworth, Illinois on the day Star Wars opened
May 25th, 1977. The Chicago Premiere of the 30-minute preview will be presented by Johnson, producer Leigh Jones and representative cast and crew.
On Tuesday, August 2nd, the pre-show reception begins at the Landmark Theater, 2828 North Clark, at 6 pm. Then join host Mike McNamara as our program begins promptly at 7:30 pm. High definition projection is made possible by Resolution Digital Studios, Fletcher Chicago and Chicago HD. The post-screening reception will be held at Monsoon, 2813 N Broadway. Admission is $10, or $7 for students and IFP members.
The Midwest Indie is a monthly film event dedicated to showcasing emerging directors, powerful artistic visions and strong cinematic stories from the eight-state Midwest region. Every first Tuesday of the month, these exceptional films combine with an exciting social atmosphere and state-of-the-art screening venue to create one of the premier festivals in the Midwest.
For more information, please visit www.midwestfilm.com
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Glad it's almost here. Seems to have been in development for a long time.
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I got the chance to work with Pat on Spaced Invaders (doing post-prod FX) so I know what a great guy he is. I'm really hoping he gets a good break with this one - Spaced Invaders should have been a LOT bigger than it was. Shortly after SI came out, Pat was tapped to head up a live action version of Speed Racer, but that unfortunately fell through (it was then supposedly picked up by Richard Donner, but that fell though as well).
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For as much as people bash lucas for cashing in on his own creation, why is it so many people have no problem with other people riding the coat tails? I guess I'm just being pessimistic. I'm sure this film will be oh-so-cute!
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I guess I was just being pessimistic
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When can the rest of us see it?
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Why should Spaced Invaders have been a "LOT" bigger? It is horrible. It's too bad that Gary Kurtz didn't produce Return of the Jedi, because it would have been one hell of a lot better.
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As for Gary Kurtz making ROTJ better, what do you think a producer does, exactly?
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Yeah, there's a list of Patrick Read Johnson projects that "fell apart" for various reasons... and the list is longer than Lexington Steele's cock. Gee, I wonder why...
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For someone that loves Star Wars so much, you sure don't know much about it. Gary Kurtz was almost as important as George Lucas in the creation of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. George Lucas' original script for Star Wars is horrible. It really is. In fact, it is so much like The Phantom Menace it is scary. The studio was interested in making SW with Lucas, but they wanted the script revised before they gave the green light. Lucas did revise it 4 times after all was said and done, and Kurtz was a big part of that. He helped focus Lucas, which is something nobody has done since. When Return of the Jedi was being discussed, Kurtz wanted to go the route that Lucas had originally intended (ROTJ was supposed to be quite a bit different), but George was already too powerful and could now do whatever he wanted. Kurtz and Lucas parted ways, and we got teddy bears, the ludicrous revelation that Luke and Leia are siblings, an uncool Han Solo etc... And then there's the Prequel Trilogy. The horrific result of a sequestered, eccentric, and unchecked or unchallenged George Lucas. Maybe you don't know much about the film industry, but a producer has a LOT to do with the creative aspects of a film. Unless he is a yesman like Rick McCallum. Here is an idea: Get educated on how a film is created and exactly what a producer does, and THEN come back and post.
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