From One Festival to another: SF Indie Fest
The San Francisco Independent Film Festival pulls into town this weekend and I’m quite excited. They’ll be over 75 films playing in an around the Mission this weekend which shorter lines and a lot less mishigas than the San Francisco International with lands a little further uptown in April.
I’ve been using Without a Box, a web-based tool on the festival’s site that lets you select which films you want to see and..I don’t quite understand what else. I’d like to be able to pick my movies and then view them in some sort of calendar interface. I’ve got a support request into WAB to ask if I can.
In the meantime, C-Dub and I are going to have a movie date on Saturday night, probably taking in Stuck. Sunday I’ve already bought tickets to Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation which, if you can believe it is this…
A shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the
Lost Ark produced and directed by three boys from the Mississippi Gulf
Coast – over 20 years ago. The trio of 12-year-olds – Eric Zala, Chris
Strompolos and Jayson Lamb – began shooting in the summer of 1982 and
wrapped seven years later. This remake has everything — the rolling
boulder, the live snakes, the heart-thudding truck sequence, and
everywhere flames, flames, flames. With a few inventive substitutions
— a puppy dog stands in for a monkey, a boat for a plane – they didn’t
skimp on production value by including a submarine, a truck on fire, a
melting face, the same copy of a 1936 Life magazine used in the
original.
Here’s the trailer:
Overall, the festival’s got a really solid lineup. I hope I can squeeze a bunch in while catching up from AWP.