Beauty Day Clip: Ralph and Robert
Time for a clip! We recently had our world premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (which went great) and we're now coming up on screenings at the Philadelphia CineFest and our official Canadian Premiere at Hot Docs at the end of April (ticket purchasing info is available at the end of this post). Last month I posted the official trailer for the film but with these festivals just around the corner (and our Canadian theatrical release not too long after that) I thought it might be a good idea to start posting some clips from the film so people can get an idea of what they're in for. This week I've decided to give you a look at two of the main characters, Ralph (aka Cap'n Video) and Robert; two best friends who love making art! Check it out embedded at the top of this post!
For those in the Toronto area, Hot Docs screening info is as follows:
Fri, Apr 29 6:45 PM, Isabel Bader Theatre BUY TICKETS
Wed, May 4 7:30 PM, Rooftop Screening Venue BUY TICKETS
Sat, May 7 4:15 PM, Isabel Bader Theatre BUY TICKETS
For those in Philadelphia, the CineFest screenings are as follows:
Tuesday, April 12, 4:00 PM, The Painted Bride BUY TICKETS
Wednesday, April 13, 9:00 PM, The Painted Bride BUY TICKETS
The Cap'n Interviews Jay and Roman
Me and Roman sit down with Cap'n Video for an in-depth discussion about Beauty Day.
March 9th 2010 - March 9th 2011. A Year of Movie Watching.
I've just finished compiling my list of films I've watch since March 9th of last year (no idea why I chose that date in particular). Thought I would share it on this blog as some of the films I took in probably had some sort of effect -- both conscious and unconscious -- on the editing process of Beauty Day. I wonder which ones?
Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956) 3.5/4
Greenzone (Greengrass, 2010) 2.5/4
The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988) 4/4
The Philosopher Kings (Shen, 2009) 3/4
Stroszek (Herzog, 1977) 4/4
The White Stripes: Under the Great White Northern Lights (Malloy, 2009) 3/4
Napoleon Dynamite (Hess, 2004) 3/4
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (West, 2009) 2.5/4
Away We Go (Mendes, 2009) 3/4
Mean Girls (Waters, 2004) 3/4
The Eagle Has Landed (Sturges, 1976) 3.5/4
Capturing Reality (Ferrari, 2008) 3.5/4
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black, 2005) 3.5/4
Whip It (Barrymore, 2009) 3/4
Toy Story 2 (Lasseter, 1999) 4/4
Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink, 2010) 2/4
Baby Mama (McCullers, 2008) 2/4
Clash of the Titans (Davis, 1981) 3/4
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Heslov, 2009) 3/4
A Serious Man (Coen, 2009) 4/4
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2009) 4/4
Excellent Cadavers (Turco, 2005) 3/4
Date Night (Levy, 2010) 2/4
Kick Ass (Vaughn, 2010) 2.5/4
Private Parts (Thomas, 1997) 3/4
Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962) 3/4
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (Dunn, 2010) 3/4
And Everything is Going Fine (Soderbergh, 2010) 3/4
Gasland (Fox, 2010) 3.5/4
The Invention of Dr.Nakamats (Schroder, 2010) 4/4
Arsy-Versy (Remo, 2010) 4/4
The People vs. George Lucas (Philippe, 2010) 1.5/4
Candyman: The David Klein Story (Botes, 2010) 2.5/4
The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi, 1978) 3.5/4
Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) 4/4
David Wants to Fly (Sieveking, 2010) 3/4
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980) 4/4
Return of the Jedi (Marquand, 1983) 3.5/4
Into Eternity (Madsen, 2009) 4/4
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Gibney, 2010) 2/4
Teenage Paparazzo (Grenier, 2010) 3/4
Fire and Ice (Bakshi, 1983) 3.5/4
Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn (Whiteman, 2009) 3/4
Secrets of the Tribe (Padiha, 2009) 3/4
Iron Man 2 (Favreau, 2010) 1.5/4
The Story of Furious Pete (Tsioutsioulas, 2010) 1.5/4
Regretters (Lindeen, 2010) 4/4
The Karate Kid (Avildsen, 1984) 3/4
Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) 4/4
Walkabout (Roeg, 1971) 3/4
Robin Hood (Scott, 2010) 2.5/4
The Edge (Tamahori, 1997) 4/4
The Magnificent Seven (Sturges, 1960) 4/4
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die (Valeri, 1972) 2.5/4
The Deep (Yates, 1977) 3.5/4
Superman III (Lester, 1983) 3/4
Day of the Dolphin (Nichols, 1973) 3/4
Django (Corbucci, 1966) 4/4
MacGruber (Taccone, 2010) 1.5/4
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Bayer, 2010) 1.5/4
City of the Living Dead (Fulci, 1980) 3.5/4
Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997) 4/4
Alice in Wonderland (Burton, 2010) 2.5/4
The New York Ripper (Fulci, 1982) 3/4
Conquest (Fulci, 1983) 3/4
Four of the Apocalypse (Fulci, 1975) 3.5/4
Prince of Persia (Newell, 2010) 1.5/4
House of 1000 Corpses (Zombie, 2003) 2.5/4
War of the Worlds (Spielberg, 2005) 3.5/4
The Beyond (Fulci, 1981) 3.5/4
Where Eagles Dare (Hutton, 1968) 4/4
Mystery Train (Jarmusch, 1989) 3.5/4
Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981) 3.5/4
Super Snooper aka Super Fuzz (Corbucci, 1980) 3/4
The Fall (Singh, 2006) 3/4
The Saragossa Manuscript (Has, 1965) 3.5/4
Get Him to the Greek (Stoller, 2010) 3/4
The A-Team (Carnahan, 2010) 3.5/4
Darkman (Raimi, 1990) 4/4
Spawn of the Slithis (Traxler, 1978) 2.5/4
Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010) 4/4
Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010) 3.5/4
Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 4/4
Death Race 2000 (Bartel, 1975) 3/4
Shock (Bava, 1977) 3/4
The Book of Eli (Hughes, 2010) 2.5/4
An Education (Scherfig, 2009) 2.5/4
Who Can Kill a Child? (Serrador, 1976) 4/4
Soul Power (Hinte, 2008) 3.5/4
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (Avery, 2009) 2.5/4
Tell Them Anything You Want (Bangs & Jonez, 2009) 4/4
The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009) 3/4
The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (Kuras & Phrasavath, 2008) 4/4
God's Country (Malle, 1986) 4/4
Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000) 4/4
Predator (McTiernan, 1987) 4/4
Predator 2 (Hopkins, 1990) 3.5/4
Greenberg (Baumbach, 2010) 3/4
Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964) 3/4
Jonah Hex (Hayward, 2010) 0.5/4
The Hit (Frears, 1984) 4/4
Inception (Nolan, 2010) 4/4
Countdown to Zero (Walker, 2010) 2.5/4
A Hard Name (Zweig, 2009) 4/4
Vinyl (Zweig, 2000) 4/4
I, Curmudgeon (Zweig, 2004) 3/4
Loveable (Zweig, 2007) 3.5/4
Mother (Bong, 2009) 3.5/4
Lucky (Blitz, 2010) 3/4
Cleanflix (James & Ligairi, 2009) 3/4
Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947) 3.5/4
Louie Bluie (Zwigoff, 1985) 4/4
Twilight (Hardwicke, 2008) 1/4
Sisters (DePalma, 1973) 3.5/4
The Unforseen (Dunn, 2007) 3/4
Cruising (Friedkin, 1980) 4/4
Transylvania 6-5000 (De Luca, 1985) 3/4
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938) 4/4
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) 4/4
Salt (Noyce, 2010) 2.5/4
Dinner for Schmucks (Roach, 2010) 2.5/4
Twilight: Eclipse (Slade, 2010) 2/4
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Reisner, 1928) 4/4
Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993) 4/4
Africa Addio (Jacopetti & Prosperi, 1966) 3/4
Night Train to Munich (Reed, 1940) 3.5/4
Henson's Place (Conrad, 1984) 3/4
The Wicker Man (LaBute, 2006) 2/4
Panic in Year Zero! (Milland, 1962) 3/4
Lock Up (Flynn, 1989) 3/4
12th & Delaware (Ewing & Grady, 2010) 3/4
Marooned (Sturges, 1969) 3/4
Billion Dollar Brain (Russell, 1967) 3/4
Cropsey (Brancaccio & Zeman, 2009) 3.5/4
Johnny Handsome (Hill, 1989) 2.5/4
Until the Light Takes Us (Aites & Ewell, 2008) 3/4
And the Pursuit of Happiness (Malle, 1986) 4/4
The Expendables (Stallone, 2010) 4/4
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Wright, 2010) 1.5/4
Piranha (Dante, 1978) 3/4
Piranha 2: The Spawning (Cameron, 1981) 2/4
Piranha 3D (Aja, 2010) 4/4
Despicable Me (Coffin & Renaud, 2010) 2.5/4
Centurion (Marshall, 2010) 2.5/4
DeLorean (Hegedus & Pennebaker, 1981) 3/4
Hero (Yimou, 2002) 2.5/4
If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise (Lee, 2010) 4/4
Speed Racer (Wachowski, 2008) 4/4
Manda Bala (Kohn, 2007) 4/4
The Deadly Duo (Chang, 1971) 3/4
[REC] 2 (Balaguero & Plaza, 2009) 3.5/4
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (Scrhader, 2005) 1/4
The Exorcist III (Blatty, 1990) 3.5/4
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Kim, 2008) 3.5/4
Choke Canyon (Bail, 1986) 2.5/4
The Last Exorcism (Stamm, 2010) 3.5/4
Daybreak Express (Pennebaker, 1953) 4/4
Town Bloody Hall (Hegedus & Pennebaker, 1979) 3/4
Al Franken: God Spoke (Doob & Hegedus, 2006) 2.5/4
Opening in Moscow (Pennebaker, 1959) 3/4
Chiefs (Leacock & Parmentel, 1968) 3.5/4
Lady Terminator (Djalil, 1988) 3.5/4
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (Beesley, 2009) 4/4
Virgins From Hell (Anwari, 1987) 4/4
Machete (Maniquis & Rodriguez, 2010) 3.5/4
The American (Corbijn, 2010) 3/4
I'm Still Here (Affleck, 2010) 3.5/4
The Edge (Uchitel, 2010) 2/4
Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010) 4/4
Jack Goes Boating (Hoffman, 2010) 2/4
The Illusionist (Chomet, 2010) 3/4
Armadillo (Metz, 2010) 3.5/4
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Boden & Fleck, 2010) 1/4
Let Me In (Reeves, 2010) 4/4
SUPER (Gunn, 2010) 3.5/4
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (Hartley, 2010) 3/4
Tabloid (Morris, 2010) 4/4
Boxing Gym (Wiseman, 2010) 4/4
Stake Land (Mickle, 2010) 2.5/4
Three (Tykwer, 2010) 3/4
Vanishing on 7th Street (Anderson, 2010) 2.5/4
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog, 2010) 3.5/4
John Carpenter's The Ward (Carpenter, 2010) 2/4
Cool It (Timoner, 2010) 3/4
Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010) 3.5/4
Tears of Gaza (Lokkeberg, 2010) 3.5/4
Our Day Will Come (Gavras, 2010) 3.5/4
I Saw the Devil (Kim, 2010) 4/4
Bad Faith (Petri, 2010) 2/4
Starcrash (Cozzi, 1978) 3.5/4
Chasing Ghosts (Ruchti, 2007) 3/4
What Just Happened? (Levinson, 2008) 3/4
Alucarda (Moctezuma, 1978) 2.5/4
Catfish (Joost & Schulman, 2010) 3/4
Daybreakers (Spierig, 2009) 2.5/4
A Married Couple (King, 1969) 4/4
The Social Network (Fincher, 2010) 4/4
Se7en (Fincher, 1995) 4/4
Defendor (Stebbings, 2009) 3/4
Vigilante (Lustig, 1983) 3/4
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (Fasano, 1987) 2.5/4
Convention (Schnack, 2009) 4/4
The Crow (Proyas, 1994) 3/4
The Slumber Party Massacre (Jones, 1982) 3/4
The Slumber Party Massacre 2 (Brock, 1987) 3/4
The Haunting (Wise, 1963) 4/4
Vacancy (Antal, 2007) 3.5/4
House (Miner, 1987) 3.5/4
Leviathan (Cosmatos, 1989) 3.5/4
Horror Hospital (Balch, 1973) 3.5/4
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Sharman, 1975) 3.5/4
Joy Ride (Dahl, 2001) 3/4
Primal Rage (Rambaldi, 1988) 2.5/4
House (Obayashi, 1977) 4/4
Frozen (Green, 2010) 3.5/4
Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985) 4/4
Zombie Nightmare (Bravman, 1986) 2.5/4
Red (Schwentke, 2010) 1.5/4
Back to the Future II (Zemeckis, 1989) 4/4
Back to the Future III (Zemeckis, 1990) 3.5/4
An American Werewolf in London (Landis, 1981) 4/4
The Changeling (Medak, 1980) 3/4
Cannibal Girls (Reitman, 1973) 3/4
The Mask (Roffman, 1961) 2.5/4
Pin: A Plastic Nightmare (Stern, 1988) 3.5/4
Pieces (Simon, 1982) 3.5/4
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (Nitzberg, 2009) 3/4
Separado! (Goch & Rhys, 2010) 3/4
Somewhere (Coppola, 2010) 4/4
Four Lions (Morris, 2010) 3.5/4
Ride, Rise, Roar (Curtis, 2010) 4/4
Balangay (Sanchez & Fardig, 2010) 0/4
Homeless (Johnsen, 2010) 3/4
At the Edge of Russia (Marczak, 2010) 2.5/4
Waste Land (Walker, 2010) 4/4
Sometimes It's Gonna Hurt (Korine & Dunlap, 1983) 4/4
Hamper McBee: Raw Mash (Korine & Dunlap, 1978) 3/4
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Fiennes, 2010) 3.5/4
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Vasyukov, 2010) 4/4
American: The Bill Hicks Story (Harlock & Thomas, 2009) 3/4
Another Green World (Roberts, 2010) 3.5/4
Vistor Q (Miike, 2001) 1/4
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (Clark, 1973) 2/4
Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955) 3.5/4
The Three Musketeers (Lester, 1973) 3/4
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957) 4/4
Head (Rafelson, 1968) 3/4
The Complete Metropolis (Lang, 1927) 4/4
Winter's Bone (Granik, 2010) 3/4
Valhalla Rising (Refn, 2009) 2/4
The Four Musketeers (Lester, 1974) 3.5/4
Psychomania (Sharp, 1973) 3/4
Pandorum (Alvart, 2009) 3.5/4
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970) 4/4
Highlander (Mulcahy, 1986) 3/4
Cronos (Del Toro, 1993) 3.5/4
The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998) 4/4
Restrepo (Hetherington & Junger, 2010) 2.5/4
The Last Boy Scout (Scott, 1991) 3/4
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971) 4/4
Vampire's Kiss (Bierman, 1988) 3/4
Rare Exports (Helander, 2010) 2.5/4
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010) 4/4
Tron Legacy (Kosinski, 2010) 2.5/4
Santa Clause The Movie (Szwarc, 1985) 3/4
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Peal (Verbinski, 2003) 3/4
Phantom of the Paradise (DePalma, 1974) 3/4
The Town (Affleck, 2010) 3.5/4
The Oath (Poitras, 2010) 3.5/4
Diva (Beineix, 1981) 3/4
How to Train Your Dragon (DeBlois & Sanders, 2010) 4/4
Last Train Home (Fan, 2009) 4/4
Monsters (Edwards, 2010) 4/4
The Fighter (Russell, 2010) 3.5/4
Animal Kingdom (Michod, 2010) 3.5/4
Sweetgrass (Taylor, 2009) 4/4
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009) 3/4
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (DeLeo & Farrell, 1995) 3.5/4
The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948) 4/4
Fubar II (Dowse, 2010) 3/4
Frontrunners (Suh, 2008) 3/4
Beautiful Losers (Rose & Leonard, 2008) 3/4
The Garden (Kennedy, 2008) 4/4
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974) 4/4
The Black Pirate (Parker, 1926) 4/4
Desperado (Rodriguez, 1995) 4/4
I Knew it Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (Shepard, 2009) 3/4
Cyrus (Duplass, 2010) 3/4
Beer League (Sebastiano, 2006) 2/4
Alien (Scott, 1979) 4/4
The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 1964) 3.5/4
Talhotblond (Schroeder, 2009) 2.5/4
Freakonomics (2010) 2.5/4
The Green Hornet (Gondry, 2011) 2/4
Aliens (Cameron, 1986) 4/4
Buried (Cortes, 2010) 3/4
Don't You Forget About Me (Austin, 2009) 1/4
Forty Guns (Fuller, 1957) 3.5/4
Il Mercenario (Corbucci, 1968) 3.5/4
F for Fake (Welles, 1973) 4/4
The Visitor (Pardisi, 1979) 3/4
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (James, 2010) 3/4
The One Armed Executioner (Suarez, 1983) 2.5/4
Nostalgia for the Light (Guzman, 2010) 3.5/4
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Hara, 1987) 4/4
Muhammed and Larry (Kaplan & Maysles, 2010) 4/4
Enter the Void (Noe 2010) 2/4
The King's Speech (Hooper, 2010) 3/4
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) 4/4
Green Zone (Greengrass, 2010) 2.5/4
Clash of the Titans (Leterrier, 2010) 1.5/4
The Human Centipede (Six, 2009) 3/4
Splice (Natali, 2010) 3/4
Knight & Day (Mangold, 2010) 2.5/4
Karate Kid (Zwart, 2010) 3/4
The Last Airbender (Shyamalan, 2010) 2.5/4
Predators (Antal, 2010) 3/4
The Other Guys (McKay, 2010) 3/4
Jackass 3D (Tremaine, 2010) 4/4
Due Date (Phillips, 2010) 2.5/4
Unstoppable (Scott, 2010) 3.5/4
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Yates, 2010) 2/4
127 Hours (Boyle, 2010) 3.5/4
True Grit (Coen, 2010) 3.5/4
Tango & Cash (Konchalovskiy, 1989) 3.5/4
Fall From Grace (Jones, 2007) 2/4
Bloodsport (Arnold, 1988) 3/4
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (Monument, 2009) 2.5/4
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942) 3.5/4
The Rock (Bay, 1996) 3/4
Crimson Tide (Scott, 1995) 4/4
Bad Boys (Bay, 1995) 3/4
Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010) 4/4
Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock, 1954) 4/4
I Confess (Hitchcock, 1953) 3/4
Uncle Buck (Hughes, 1989) 3/4
Lifeboat (Hitchcock, 1944) 3.5/4
Foreign Correspondant (Hitchcock, 1940) 4/4
The Wrong Man (Hitchcock, 1956) 3/4
Pleasantville (Ross, 1998) 3.5/4
Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2009) 3/4
Suspicion (Hitchcock, 1941) 2.5/4
Beverly Hills Cop (Brest, 1984) 3.5/4
Beverly Hills Cop 2 (Scott, 1987) 3/4
Mr. Nobody (Van Dormael, 2009) 0.5/4
X2: X-Men United (Singer, 2003) 3/4
Broadcast News (Brooks, 1987) 3.5/4
Shoot to Kill (Spottiswoode, 1988) 3/4
Cabin Boy (Resnick, 1994) 3.5/4
Drive Angry (Lussier, 2011) 2.5/4
Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010) 3/4
The Thorn in the Heart (Gondry, 2009) 3.5/4
United 93 (Greengrass, 2006) 4/4
Family Plot (Hitchcock, 1976) 3.5/4
The Cable Guy (Stiller, 1996) 3.5/4
Last Action Hero (McTiernan, 1993) 3.5/4
Watchmen (Snyder, 2009) 3/4
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, 1956) 3.5/4
Frenzy (Hitchcock, 1972) 3/4
Chinatown (Polanski, 1974) 4/4
Satan's Blood (Puerto, 1978) 2.5/4
Rango (Verbinski, 2011) 4/4
Goodbye CP (Hara, 1972) 3/4
G.I. Joe: The Movie (Jurwich, 1987) 4/4
Vampire Circus (Young, 1972) 3.5/4
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Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956) 3.5/4
Greenzone (Greengrass, 2010) 2.5/4
The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988) 4/4
The Philosopher Kings (Shen, 2009) 3/4
Stroszek (Herzog, 1977) 4/4
The White Stripes: Under the Great White Northern Lights (Malloy, 2009) 3/4
Napoleon Dynamite (Hess, 2004) 3/4
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (West, 2009) 2.5/4
Away We Go (Mendes, 2009) 3/4
Mean Girls (Waters, 2004) 3/4
The Eagle Has Landed (Sturges, 1976) 3.5/4
Capturing Reality (Ferrari, 2008) 3.5/4
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black, 2005) 3.5/4
Whip It (Barrymore, 2009) 3/4
Toy Story 2 (Lasseter, 1999) 4/4
Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink, 2010) 2/4
Baby Mama (McCullers, 2008) 2/4
Clash of the Titans (Davis, 1981) 3/4
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Heslov, 2009) 3/4
A Serious Man (Coen, 2009) 4/4
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2009) 4/4
Excellent Cadavers (Turco, 2005) 3/4
Date Night (Levy, 2010) 2/4
Kick Ass (Vaughn, 2010) 2.5/4
Private Parts (Thomas, 1997) 3/4
Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962) 3/4
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (Dunn, 2010) 3/4
And Everything is Going Fine (Soderbergh, 2010) 3/4
Gasland (Fox, 2010) 3.5/4
The Invention of Dr.Nakamats (Schroder, 2010) 4/4
Arsy-Versy (Remo, 2010) 4/4
The People vs. George Lucas (Philippe, 2010) 1.5/4
Candyman: The David Klein Story (Botes, 2010) 2.5/4
The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi, 1978) 3.5/4
Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) 4/4
David Wants to Fly (Sieveking, 2010) 3/4
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980) 4/4
Return of the Jedi (Marquand, 1983) 3.5/4
Into Eternity (Madsen, 2009) 4/4
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Gibney, 2010) 2/4
Teenage Paparazzo (Grenier, 2010) 3/4
Fire and Ice (Bakshi, 1983) 3.5/4
Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn (Whiteman, 2009) 3/4
Secrets of the Tribe (Padiha, 2009) 3/4
Iron Man 2 (Favreau, 2010) 1.5/4
The Story of Furious Pete (Tsioutsioulas, 2010) 1.5/4
Regretters (Lindeen, 2010) 4/4
The Karate Kid (Avildsen, 1984) 3/4
Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) 4/4
Walkabout (Roeg, 1971) 3/4
Robin Hood (Scott, 2010) 2.5/4
The Edge (Tamahori, 1997) 4/4
The Magnificent Seven (Sturges, 1960) 4/4
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die (Valeri, 1972) 2.5/4
The Deep (Yates, 1977) 3.5/4
Superman III (Lester, 1983) 3/4
Day of the Dolphin (Nichols, 1973) 3/4
Django (Corbucci, 1966) 4/4
MacGruber (Taccone, 2010) 1.5/4
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Bayer, 2010) 1.5/4
City of the Living Dead (Fulci, 1980) 3.5/4
Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997) 4/4
Alice in Wonderland (Burton, 2010) 2.5/4
The New York Ripper (Fulci, 1982) 3/4
Conquest (Fulci, 1983) 3/4
Four of the Apocalypse (Fulci, 1975) 3.5/4
Prince of Persia (Newell, 2010) 1.5/4
House of 1000 Corpses (Zombie, 2003) 2.5/4
War of the Worlds (Spielberg, 2005) 3.5/4
The Beyond (Fulci, 1981) 3.5/4
Where Eagles Dare (Hutton, 1968) 4/4
Mystery Train (Jarmusch, 1989) 3.5/4
Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981) 3.5/4
Super Snooper aka Super Fuzz (Corbucci, 1980) 3/4
The Fall (Singh, 2006) 3/4
The Saragossa Manuscript (Has, 1965) 3.5/4
Get Him to the Greek (Stoller, 2010) 3/4
The A-Team (Carnahan, 2010) 3.5/4
Darkman (Raimi, 1990) 4/4
Spawn of the Slithis (Traxler, 1978) 2.5/4
Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010) 4/4
Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010) 3.5/4
Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 4/4
Death Race 2000 (Bartel, 1975) 3/4
Shock (Bava, 1977) 3/4
The Book of Eli (Hughes, 2010) 2.5/4
An Education (Scherfig, 2009) 2.5/4
Who Can Kill a Child? (Serrador, 1976) 4/4
Soul Power (Hinte, 2008) 3.5/4
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (Avery, 2009) 2.5/4
Tell Them Anything You Want (Bangs & Jonez, 2009) 4/4
The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009) 3/4
The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (Kuras & Phrasavath, 2008) 4/4
God's Country (Malle, 1986) 4/4
Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000) 4/4
Predator (McTiernan, 1987) 4/4
Predator 2 (Hopkins, 1990) 3.5/4
Greenberg (Baumbach, 2010) 3/4
Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964) 3/4
Jonah Hex (Hayward, 2010) 0.5/4
The Hit (Frears, 1984) 4/4
Inception (Nolan, 2010) 4/4
Countdown to Zero (Walker, 2010) 2.5/4
A Hard Name (Zweig, 2009) 4/4
Vinyl (Zweig, 2000) 4/4
I, Curmudgeon (Zweig, 2004) 3/4
Loveable (Zweig, 2007) 3.5/4
Mother (Bong, 2009) 3.5/4
Lucky (Blitz, 2010) 3/4
Cleanflix (James & Ligairi, 2009) 3/4
Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947) 3.5/4
Louie Bluie (Zwigoff, 1985) 4/4
Twilight (Hardwicke, 2008) 1/4
Sisters (DePalma, 1973) 3.5/4
The Unforseen (Dunn, 2007) 3/4
Cruising (Friedkin, 1980) 4/4
Transylvania 6-5000 (De Luca, 1985) 3/4
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938) 4/4
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) 4/4
Salt (Noyce, 2010) 2.5/4
Dinner for Schmucks (Roach, 2010) 2.5/4
Twilight: Eclipse (Slade, 2010) 2/4
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Reisner, 1928) 4/4
Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993) 4/4
Africa Addio (Jacopetti & Prosperi, 1966) 3/4
Night Train to Munich (Reed, 1940) 3.5/4
Henson's Place (Conrad, 1984) 3/4
The Wicker Man (LaBute, 2006) 2/4
Panic in Year Zero! (Milland, 1962) 3/4
Lock Up (Flynn, 1989) 3/4
12th & Delaware (Ewing & Grady, 2010) 3/4
Marooned (Sturges, 1969) 3/4
Billion Dollar Brain (Russell, 1967) 3/4
Cropsey (Brancaccio & Zeman, 2009) 3.5/4
Johnny Handsome (Hill, 1989) 2.5/4
Until the Light Takes Us (Aites & Ewell, 2008) 3/4
And the Pursuit of Happiness (Malle, 1986) 4/4
The Expendables (Stallone, 2010) 4/4
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Wright, 2010) 1.5/4
Piranha (Dante, 1978) 3/4
Piranha 2: The Spawning (Cameron, 1981) 2/4
Piranha 3D (Aja, 2010) 4/4
Despicable Me (Coffin & Renaud, 2010) 2.5/4
Centurion (Marshall, 2010) 2.5/4
DeLorean (Hegedus & Pennebaker, 1981) 3/4
Hero (Yimou, 2002) 2.5/4
If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise (Lee, 2010) 4/4
Speed Racer (Wachowski, 2008) 4/4
Manda Bala (Kohn, 2007) 4/4
The Deadly Duo (Chang, 1971) 3/4
[REC] 2 (Balaguero & Plaza, 2009) 3.5/4
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (Scrhader, 2005) 1/4
The Exorcist III (Blatty, 1990) 3.5/4
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Kim, 2008) 3.5/4
Choke Canyon (Bail, 1986) 2.5/4
The Last Exorcism (Stamm, 2010) 3.5/4
Daybreak Express (Pennebaker, 1953) 4/4
Town Bloody Hall (Hegedus & Pennebaker, 1979) 3/4
Al Franken: God Spoke (Doob & Hegedus, 2006) 2.5/4
Opening in Moscow (Pennebaker, 1959) 3/4
Chiefs (Leacock & Parmentel, 1968) 3.5/4
Lady Terminator (Djalil, 1988) 3.5/4
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (Beesley, 2009) 4/4
Virgins From Hell (Anwari, 1987) 4/4
Machete (Maniquis & Rodriguez, 2010) 3.5/4
The American (Corbijn, 2010) 3/4
I'm Still Here (Affleck, 2010) 3.5/4
The Edge (Uchitel, 2010) 2/4
Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010) 4/4
Jack Goes Boating (Hoffman, 2010) 2/4
The Illusionist (Chomet, 2010) 3/4
Armadillo (Metz, 2010) 3.5/4
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Boden & Fleck, 2010) 1/4
Let Me In (Reeves, 2010) 4/4
SUPER (Gunn, 2010) 3.5/4
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (Hartley, 2010) 3/4
Tabloid (Morris, 2010) 4/4
Boxing Gym (Wiseman, 2010) 4/4
Stake Land (Mickle, 2010) 2.5/4
Three (Tykwer, 2010) 3/4
Vanishing on 7th Street (Anderson, 2010) 2.5/4
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog, 2010) 3.5/4
John Carpenter's The Ward (Carpenter, 2010) 2/4
Cool It (Timoner, 2010) 3/4
Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010) 3.5/4
Tears of Gaza (Lokkeberg, 2010) 3.5/4
Our Day Will Come (Gavras, 2010) 3.5/4
I Saw the Devil (Kim, 2010) 4/4
Bad Faith (Petri, 2010) 2/4
Starcrash (Cozzi, 1978) 3.5/4
Chasing Ghosts (Ruchti, 2007) 3/4
What Just Happened? (Levinson, 2008) 3/4
Alucarda (Moctezuma, 1978) 2.5/4
Catfish (Joost & Schulman, 2010) 3/4
Daybreakers (Spierig, 2009) 2.5/4
A Married Couple (King, 1969) 4/4
The Social Network (Fincher, 2010) 4/4
Se7en (Fincher, 1995) 4/4
Defendor (Stebbings, 2009) 3/4
Vigilante (Lustig, 1983) 3/4
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (Fasano, 1987) 2.5/4
Convention (Schnack, 2009) 4/4
The Crow (Proyas, 1994) 3/4
The Slumber Party Massacre (Jones, 1982) 3/4
The Slumber Party Massacre 2 (Brock, 1987) 3/4
The Haunting (Wise, 1963) 4/4
Vacancy (Antal, 2007) 3.5/4
House (Miner, 1987) 3.5/4
Leviathan (Cosmatos, 1989) 3.5/4
Horror Hospital (Balch, 1973) 3.5/4
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Sharman, 1975) 3.5/4
Joy Ride (Dahl, 2001) 3/4
Primal Rage (Rambaldi, 1988) 2.5/4
House (Obayashi, 1977) 4/4
Frozen (Green, 2010) 3.5/4
Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985) 4/4
Zombie Nightmare (Bravman, 1986) 2.5/4
Red (Schwentke, 2010) 1.5/4
Back to the Future II (Zemeckis, 1989) 4/4
Back to the Future III (Zemeckis, 1990) 3.5/4
An American Werewolf in London (Landis, 1981) 4/4
The Changeling (Medak, 1980) 3/4
Cannibal Girls (Reitman, 1973) 3/4
The Mask (Roffman, 1961) 2.5/4
Pin: A Plastic Nightmare (Stern, 1988) 3.5/4
Pieces (Simon, 1982) 3.5/4
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (Nitzberg, 2009) 3/4
Separado! (Goch & Rhys, 2010) 3/4
Somewhere (Coppola, 2010) 4/4
Four Lions (Morris, 2010) 3.5/4
Ride, Rise, Roar (Curtis, 2010) 4/4
Balangay (Sanchez & Fardig, 2010) 0/4
Homeless (Johnsen, 2010) 3/4
At the Edge of Russia (Marczak, 2010) 2.5/4
Waste Land (Walker, 2010) 4/4
Sometimes It's Gonna Hurt (Korine & Dunlap, 1983) 4/4
Hamper McBee: Raw Mash (Korine & Dunlap, 1978) 3/4
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Fiennes, 2010) 3.5/4
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Vasyukov, 2010) 4/4
American: The Bill Hicks Story (Harlock & Thomas, 2009) 3/4
Another Green World (Roberts, 2010) 3.5/4
Vistor Q (Miike, 2001) 1/4
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (Clark, 1973) 2/4
Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955) 3.5/4
The Three Musketeers (Lester, 1973) 3/4
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957) 4/4
Head (Rafelson, 1968) 3/4
The Complete Metropolis (Lang, 1927) 4/4
Winter's Bone (Granik, 2010) 3/4
Valhalla Rising (Refn, 2009) 2/4
The Four Musketeers (Lester, 1974) 3.5/4
Psychomania (Sharp, 1973) 3/4
Pandorum (Alvart, 2009) 3.5/4
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970) 4/4
Highlander (Mulcahy, 1986) 3/4
Cronos (Del Toro, 1993) 3.5/4
The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998) 4/4
Restrepo (Hetherington & Junger, 2010) 2.5/4
The Last Boy Scout (Scott, 1991) 3/4
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971) 4/4
Vampire's Kiss (Bierman, 1988) 3/4
Rare Exports (Helander, 2010) 2.5/4
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010) 4/4
Tron Legacy (Kosinski, 2010) 2.5/4
Santa Clause The Movie (Szwarc, 1985) 3/4
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Peal (Verbinski, 2003) 3/4
Phantom of the Paradise (DePalma, 1974) 3/4
The Town (Affleck, 2010) 3.5/4
The Oath (Poitras, 2010) 3.5/4
Diva (Beineix, 1981) 3/4
How to Train Your Dragon (DeBlois & Sanders, 2010) 4/4
Last Train Home (Fan, 2009) 4/4
Monsters (Edwards, 2010) 4/4
The Fighter (Russell, 2010) 3.5/4
Animal Kingdom (Michod, 2010) 3.5/4
Sweetgrass (Taylor, 2009) 4/4
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009) 3/4
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (DeLeo & Farrell, 1995) 3.5/4
The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948) 4/4
Fubar II (Dowse, 2010) 3/4
Frontrunners (Suh, 2008) 3/4
Beautiful Losers (Rose & Leonard, 2008) 3/4
The Garden (Kennedy, 2008) 4/4
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974) 4/4
The Black Pirate (Parker, 1926) 4/4
Desperado (Rodriguez, 1995) 4/4
I Knew it Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (Shepard, 2009) 3/4
Cyrus (Duplass, 2010) 3/4
Beer League (Sebastiano, 2006) 2/4
Alien (Scott, 1979) 4/4
The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 1964) 3.5/4
Talhotblond (Schroeder, 2009) 2.5/4
Freakonomics (2010) 2.5/4
The Green Hornet (Gondry, 2011) 2/4
Aliens (Cameron, 1986) 4/4
Buried (Cortes, 2010) 3/4
Don't You Forget About Me (Austin, 2009) 1/4
Forty Guns (Fuller, 1957) 3.5/4
Il Mercenario (Corbucci, 1968) 3.5/4
F for Fake (Welles, 1973) 4/4
The Visitor (Pardisi, 1979) 3/4
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (James, 2010) 3/4
The One Armed Executioner (Suarez, 1983) 2.5/4
Nostalgia for the Light (Guzman, 2010) 3.5/4
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Hara, 1987) 4/4
Muhammed and Larry (Kaplan & Maysles, 2010) 4/4
Enter the Void (Noe 2010) 2/4
The King's Speech (Hooper, 2010) 3/4
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) 4/4
Green Zone (Greengrass, 2010) 2.5/4
Clash of the Titans (Leterrier, 2010) 1.5/4
The Human Centipede (Six, 2009) 3/4
Splice (Natali, 2010) 3/4
Knight & Day (Mangold, 2010) 2.5/4
Karate Kid (Zwart, 2010) 3/4
The Last Airbender (Shyamalan, 2010) 2.5/4
Predators (Antal, 2010) 3/4
The Other Guys (McKay, 2010) 3/4
Jackass 3D (Tremaine, 2010) 4/4
Due Date (Phillips, 2010) 2.5/4
Unstoppable (Scott, 2010) 3.5/4
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Yates, 2010) 2/4
127 Hours (Boyle, 2010) 3.5/4
True Grit (Coen, 2010) 3.5/4
Tango & Cash (Konchalovskiy, 1989) 3.5/4
Fall From Grace (Jones, 2007) 2/4
Bloodsport (Arnold, 1988) 3/4
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (Monument, 2009) 2.5/4
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942) 3.5/4
The Rock (Bay, 1996) 3/4
Crimson Tide (Scott, 1995) 4/4
Bad Boys (Bay, 1995) 3/4
Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010) 4/4
Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock, 1954) 4/4
I Confess (Hitchcock, 1953) 3/4
Uncle Buck (Hughes, 1989) 3/4
Lifeboat (Hitchcock, 1944) 3.5/4
Foreign Correspondant (Hitchcock, 1940) 4/4
The Wrong Man (Hitchcock, 1956) 3/4
Pleasantville (Ross, 1998) 3.5/4
Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2009) 3/4
Suspicion (Hitchcock, 1941) 2.5/4
Beverly Hills Cop (Brest, 1984) 3.5/4
Beverly Hills Cop 2 (Scott, 1987) 3/4
Mr. Nobody (Van Dormael, 2009) 0.5/4
X2: X-Men United (Singer, 2003) 3/4
Broadcast News (Brooks, 1987) 3.5/4
Shoot to Kill (Spottiswoode, 1988) 3/4
Cabin Boy (Resnick, 1994) 3.5/4
Drive Angry (Lussier, 2011) 2.5/4
Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010) 3/4
The Thorn in the Heart (Gondry, 2009) 3.5/4
United 93 (Greengrass, 2006) 4/4
Family Plot (Hitchcock, 1976) 3.5/4
The Cable Guy (Stiller, 1996) 3.5/4
Last Action Hero (McTiernan, 1993) 3.5/4
Watchmen (Snyder, 2009) 3/4
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, 1956) 3.5/4
Frenzy (Hitchcock, 1972) 3/4
Chinatown (Polanski, 1974) 4/4
Satan's Blood (Puerto, 1978) 2.5/4
Rango (Verbinski, 2011) 4/4
Goodbye CP (Hara, 1972) 3/4
G.I. Joe: The Movie (Jurwich, 1987) 4/4
Vampire Circus (Young, 1972) 3.5/4
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Beauty Day Trailer
I have to say that cutting 90 minutes down to 2:45 was a nightmare, but I think the end result is was worth it. Stay tuned for more clips, images and other goodies in the near future.
Beauty Day to Premiere at MoMA in NYC This March
Some exciting news! Beauty Day has been officially selected to screen as a part of The Museum of Modern Art's Canadian Front programming next month. Each year MoMA showcases eight Canadian films as an "annual survey of notable recent films from both English- and French-speaking Canada." This year there are two docs; our own Beauty Day and Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie. Have a look at their synopsis of our film:
I'm not too sure of the details but I assume tickets will be available for purchase in the near future via the MoMA website. Until then, here are the screening dates:
Sunday, March 20, 2011, 5:30 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Monday, March 21, 2011, 4:00 p.m., Theater 3, mezzanine, Education and Research Building
If you're in the NYC area, be sure to attend!
Before the body-threatening antics of Jackass came crashing into public consciousness, there was Ontario’s Ralph Zavadil, aka Cap'n Video, who cascaded off roofs into snowbanks, jumped off ladders into half-empty swimming pools, and drank eggs through his nostrils. Beauty Day is a rambunctious documentary about this irrepressible pioneer of local-access cable shenanigans who entertained and outraged viewers in the small city of St. Catharines—until a special Easter Show, featuring a fat rabbit and adorable puppies (none of which were hurt), got him kicked off the air for good. With a nod to Werner Herzog, Cheel follows the life and times of Cap'n Video and finds that the Cap'n is still quite a firecracker.
I'm not too sure of the details but I assume tickets will be available for purchase in the near future via the MoMA website. Until then, here are the screening dates:
Sunday, March 20, 2011, 5:30 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Monday, March 21, 2011, 4:00 p.m., Theater 3, mezzanine, Education and Research Building
If you're in the NYC area, be sure to attend!
Beauty Day Original Score by Ohad Benchetrit and Justin Small
Well we're getting close to the end on this thing. It's pretty crazy to think that it was three years ago this month that I originally contacted Ralph via email and proposed an interview with him for what was supposed to be a short film. Now we're almost finished post production on what will be my first feature length documentary. It's been a fun (and occasionally stressful) ride that has garnered many surprises and a lot of great news. Over the next month I plan to share some details on the current state of the film and how/when you might be able to see it. We'll also be sharing some clips and stills to give you an idea of what to expect. Until then, I can let you (yes, you) know that Beauty Day will feature an original score written and performed by Ohad Benchetrit (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, Years) and Justin Small (Do Make Say Think, Lullabye Arkestra). It has been a lot of fun listening to the great stuff these guys have been coming up with and watching it add to the film's overall identity. I can't wait to share it with everyone. Until then, have a listen to some of their work:
Time For an Update!
It's been quite some time since I've updated this blog but it's certainly not due to a lack of news surrounding Beauty Day. In fact, there's been plenty of news as of late and I figured it might be time to share a few updates with whoever might be interested in reading!
First off, Jackass 3D came out this weekend and I loved it! It just made me more excited to finally have a chance to watch Beauty Day with an audience and introduce the uninitiated to Ralph, aka Cap'n Video, aka the ORIGINAL Jackass. Luckily we're lucky enough to have been picked up for distribution by the amazing Canadian company filmswelike, co-founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann and Toronto film and music promoter Gary Topp. I'm very excited to find ourselves in a roster with other great films like Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Abel Raises Cain, Dig!, Incident and Loch Ness and Cannibal Girls!! While we don't have a release date as of yet, I can definitely say that Beauty Day will hit theatres and DVD (in Canada) sometime in 2011. Hopefully we'll have some more details in the near future (including a trailer).
I've also realized that I never really posted anything about my partnership with Primitive Entertainment. We've been lucky enough to have a bunch of great support from the talented and wonderful folks at Primitive, a Toronto based documentary production company specializing in feature documentaries and television series. In fact, in 2009 I was lucky enough to catch their awesome doc on the great lakes, Waterlife, and had originally contacted director Kevin McMahon (a partner in Primitive along with Michael McMahon and Kristina McLaughlin) to send him my review of his film (and ask him to check out an early promo video of Beauty Day). From then on we've had a great time finishing the film and I hope to continue to work with them on future projects.
Stay tuned for future updates!!
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