It's not that its been a bad year so far - its that I'm not particularly enamored with much I've seen. Today started out nicely with
'Welcome To Me' starring Kristen Wiig as a woman suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder who becomes an overnight celebrity after a huge lottery jackpot allows her
to launch her own off-the-wall talk show. It becomes popular, but not 'Network' popular - which I kinda hoped it would. But I liked it - she was charmingly crazy for once.
I took a break to do some work-work in the bar and met a couple interesting folks between cursing at the non-existent wi-fi.
The next picture had a compelling story, well acted.
'The Phoenix', tells the story of a concentration camp survivor who comes home so mangled she needs facial reconstruction. She wants to find her husband (who had been arrested and then released) but when she does, he doesn't recognize her and instead tries to get her to pretend to be his wife in order to her large inheritance. Good storyline. Look forward to playing it once it gets picked up.
I had to go outside into the cattle yard to stand with 500 people waiting to see a Priority Screening (press gets in first) for a showing of 'Nightcrawler', a really creepy story starring a really creepy Jake Gyllenhaal as a drifter and petty thief who joins the nocturnal legions
of scuzzy freelance photographers who scour the city for gruesome
crime-scene footage, in this gripping portrait of the dark side of L.A.
from veteran screenwriter and first-time director Dan Gilroy.
Last show of the night was
'Black and White' about an attorney played by Kevin Costner struggling to raise his biracial
granddaughter after the deaths of his wife and daughter becomes
embroiled in a custody battle with the child’s paternal grandmother
(Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer).
Tomorrow is an early morning (my boss picked an 8:30 a.m. show for me, thanks) so wish us luck that we get dazzled right off the bat. Please.
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