Experiment/Results

Klute, but of course

Experiment: Watched Don't Look Now & Invasion of the Body Snatchers on successive evenings

Results: Reignited mad crush on Donald Sutherland

Know what a turtle is? Same thing.

About to go see it at the Ziegfeld (1927-cool), for only the second time on the big screen in muh life, one of my favorite movies ever. RAWK.

See/Saw

I watch a movie almost every night. I hardly ever talk about them here, tho I think about them lots. I love movies.

This week I saw this, which I liked very much.

But then I saw this one, which I liked even better.

(But then again, I liked this'un. You didn't? I also heart him. You don't? No nevermind. I think the key to my high enjoyment-return re: film is that I do not read reviews or see trailers, etc. so come to each experience on its own terms, knowing nothing. Expert status has a way of turning one cranky & exacting, don't it?)

& last night I watched o my this. Again. I can't believe it's 20 yrs old.

Another good movie

Good movie

I can't find anything in here . . .

. . . including my thoughts.

I've gotta clean this office. I've put it off long enough.

I feel like I am being eaten by paper, like Tuttle in Brazil.

Fundraising for Transcendence

Our pal Todd Holland writes from San Francisco to say his production company is sending their film to Sundance! Transcendence is an amazing documentary project, a film that tells the story of the first-ever transgender gospel choir, as well as the stories of many of the individual choristers. Find out more at the Campfire Films web site (and you can make a tax-deductible donation to help them get to Sundance, too.)

Congrats to Colum for his OSCAR nomination!!!!

Wow! Colum's novella Everything in This Country Must was adapted for film by director Gary McKendry, and it's received a nomination for best live action short film!



Yeehaw!



And to think, C used to pour my Shiner Bocks when I was in college. I really should have tipped better.



Seriously...this is outstanding!

Finally...

saw Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday at BAM.



Whoa.



UPDATE: I think I hid my face about a third of the time. Trembled in anger, cried, laughed, cried some more, winced. Went immediately for a drink. So did most of the other audience members--the neighborhood wine shop was crowded! In fact, the employees asked if we had just come from seeing F9/11. They said they can tell when the movie lets out by their sudden spurts of busyness (and mascara-streaked faces)!!!

Transcendence by Campfire Films

My friend Todd Holland send along the following announcement for a new documentary film he's made on the first-ever all transexual gospel choir. Check it out!



Hello Everyone!



Hopefully you have heard about Campfire Films’ groundbreaking documentary, Transcendence. We can hardly believe that almost three years have passed since we started making this film about an exclusively transgender gospel choir—The Transcendence Gospel Choir—dedicated to promoting transgender acceptance in and outside of Christianity.



THANK YOU to all of you who have already given. Your donations have helped in so many ways and we appreciate every penny. If you haven't given yet, well...we're still here!!!



As for gospel, we have some to share:



THIS JUST IN!!!! Two weeks ago the choir received an OUTMUSIC award for Best New Album by a choir or chorus and Ashley, the choir's founder, was nominated for best producer!



Also, Campfire Films has provided footage to two different films that are currently featured in the San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.



• We recently launched our website. Please CHECK IT OUT!! For those of you who have not seen our TRAILER, we are proud to say you can now VIEW IT on our website. This trailer premiered at San Francisco’s annual Transgender Film and Arts Festival, Trannyfest, in November 2003, and has been screened throughout the US creating quite a buzz for the project.



• Transcendence was featured in the Winter issue of Release Print, the Film Arts Foundation’s magazine; and the BBC used footage from the film for a documentary aired in the UK.



• Finally, and most importantly, 2003 was a fantastic year for the Transcendence Gospel Choir, and of course for our film. Their presence at the UCC national convention garnered support for a resolution affirming transgender inclusiveness in the church—the first of its kind for a major Christian church in the US. Todd traveled to Minneapolis and captured the historical and groundbreaking events on film during an intensely emotional 3 days.



Todd and Julie are spending sleepless nights editing the film, preparing to submit to festivals in 2005. As we head down the home stretch on the film, WE NEED YOUR HELP! A major funding source for most independent films is friends and family--that’s you! Please consider contributing, $25, $50, $100, $500, $1000 or more. Here’s how:



1. Visit our website: www.campfirefilms.com and click on the “make a donation” button to contribute using your credit card or PayPal account,



2. Make a tax-deductible contribution through our fiscal sponsor by writing a check:



3. Payable to: The International Documentary Association

For: “Transcendence”, Nicole Miller, Producer

Mail to: Nicole Miller

Campfire Films

512 B Sanchez

San Francisco, CA 94114



Your support means more to us than you can even know! We’re so appreciative; we’ll even give you a credit in the film. Don’t forget to check out the website…we’ll keep you posted on our progress. Please pass this email on to anyone you know and let us know what you think of the trailer.



Campfire Films

Todd Holland, Nicole Miller, Beth Burkhart & Julie Griesert



How cool is that? Congrats to Todd and everybody at Campfire!

Hearty recommendation for Aimee

Sha-na-na does "Blue Moon" on the soundtrack. And they appear in the movie. I just watched it again the other day. Surprised, in retrospect, that my mom let me see it as a kid.