SXSW2001 Day Eight - Friday, March 16
A pretty dull day, event wise, although
I did get to see 1 and 1/2 good movies. And then there
was the last thing that happened to me!
And, oh yeah. If I overhear one more
person talking about how great "Memento"
is, I'm going to scream. Yes, it's a great film, but
there are many, many others in the festival. Hopefully
tomorrow everyone will be talking about "Blow."
I didn't get up until about 2. I was
only slightly hungover but still moving pretty slow.
At 3ish I went to the Bad Dog, it's about 5 blocks from
my apartment, to see "Low
Self- esteem Girl." The director was there for a
Q&A but, well, lets just say he wouldn't want to hear
my questions. And I really wasn't all that interested
in anything he might have to say. I went home and ate
and wrote.
At 7ish I headed back to Bad Dog for
"The Zeros."
Again the director was in attendance and doing a Q&A
but I didn't stay as I wanted to head to the Paramount
and get in line for "Blow."
I got to the Paramount early and they
were already allowing people with badges to go in. On
my way to my seat, I ran into the guy I met from Guerilla-films.com.
We chatted a bit and I watched the Paramount fill up.
I like sitting towards the front, so I really didn't
have to hurry.
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Louis Black, Senior Director of
SXSW introduced Harry Knowles and Harry introduced
the film. Harry, pimping himself as always, talked
about getting e-mails from Ted Demme and how he
got to see a first cut of the film with his buddies
and how he told Ted that he had to bring the film
to SXSW. But the bottom line, after much pandering
to the audience from Louis and Harry, was that
Ted was on an international press junket for the
film and didn't come. Meanwhile, Johnny Depp and
Penelope Cruz, who are the stars, are working
on pre- strike film and have no free time. Harry
said that he and Ted are going to be on "Politically
Incorrect" on Oscar Night. He claimed he would
give Ted a hard time for not coming.
By the way, I don't really normally
look too closely at Harry but he looked to me
to have gotten even larger. Maybe, and I have
no room to talk, I never noticed just how big
he is before. Then again, maybe it's too much
caviar and champagne from Tim Burton and Sam Raimi.
Speaking of Harry and Raimi, you
know, the difference between Harry and myself
is that he masturbates to the thought of Tobey
Maguire in THE SPIDER MAN SUIT and I masturbate
to the thought of TOBEY MAGUIRE in the Spider-Man
suit.
After the screening, I ran into
Oriah of Hobble in the Paramount lobby. He was
with some girl and they were going to see Zeke
at the Atomic.
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Harry
Knowles
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We chatted a bit and then said our goodbyes
and Oriah gave me a nice hug. We've never really hugged
before. It was nice. As I was walking to my car, my
glow outshined the spotlights on the capitol building
dome!
Last day tomorrow! How many films can
I cram into the day?
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