Festivals 30 Apr 2006 07:26 am
Tribeca Screening
- Yesterday, I went to a screening of my film, Reading To Your Bunny, at 
the Tribeca Film Festival. There are three more screenings to come in the next week.
I wasn’t quite into this film at first, but was somewhat pleased with how it turned out.
Last year’s screening was on a relatively small screen, but today we had an enormous screen. I actually was amazed at how well it played large, and it certainly was my favorite of the films screened. (Perhaps I’m biased.)
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Viewing it with the distance of two weeks, I thought Matt Clinton did some excellent, first rate animation in it – his animation has grown so enormously in the last two years here. Paul Carrillo’s editing of the final music video to the Beatle-like song sung by Mary Chapin Carpenter is hilarious, and the Bg styling done by Adrian Urquidez really solidified the piece.
It was a family program. It was a beautiful day in New York so I wasn’t surprised to see a relatively small audience of kids – about 20, with their parents. One thing I have to say is that the Tribeca Festival is treating me like royalty, and I love it.
– And then last night, what turned out to be the inspiration for the day was a fabulous play about to open on Broadway, Shining City. Performances by Oliver Platt, BrÃan F. O’Byrne, Martha Plimpton, Peter Scanavino could not have been better – all of them, and the direction by Robert Falls was superb and artful. They mined the show for every ounce it had, and I soaked it in.
It’s built around an extended monologue given brilliantly by Oliver Platt to his therapist, BrÃan F. O’Byrne. The play deals with that part of our lives where we’re searching for something outside of ourselves to make things better, more exciting. Whether it’s god or ghosts or just an erratic change, these extra ordinary bouts seem to make the ordinary more liveable.
It’s an excellent production, done under the best possible circumstances. I encourage anyone near New York to seek it out. (Certainly the TKTS Booth must be offering half-price seats; no one seems to have heard of the show.) Go.
- Today’s NYTimes features an article about a Jordanian animated cgi series. “Ben and Izzy,” is about the sometimes-rocky friendship between two 11-year-old boys — one American, one Arab, and it is being shopped to the world. The NYTimes, apparently, is helping out.
