Farewell

Alissa and I are getting married on Tuesday in a private ceremony with our families and the wedding party here at her parents' house. She'll be able to go barefoot in the grass like she always dreamed and I'll be all dapper in my new suit. We'll still honeymoon in Cape Cod for a few days since we have the place and then return here to be with Debbie and Sean. The bank is good and gives her two weeks bereavement leave; I'm just glad we can be here for them.

Marriage aside, although inextricably linked with it, this is also the close of a chapter in my life. I started this blog as I was graduating from Emerson two years ago. Now soon to be married to an avid blogger, we're big dorks and combined blogs last week; we're now the coolest superhero crime-fighting duo around (sorry Dave). So you can read about all our adventures on our new site tomandalissa.com

Tomorrow is Today

The film I boom operated on last summer at the Jersey shore is amazingly taking off in the festival circuit! Tomorrow is Today had it's world premiere this past weekend at the Rhode Island International Film Festival; nominated for Best Feature and Best Cinematography, it went on to win the Directorial Discovery Award!

The film is also featured in broadcast magazine Studio Daily for its use of HDV technology and post-production pipeline. On August 25th it'll go to the TriMedia Festival in Fort Collins, Colorado, followed by three screenings at the Montreal World Film Festival.

Congratulations Frederic and company!

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Star Wars Deleted Scene

Just to show you how much George Lucas can't direct. The man doesn't know what he wants, and that's a requisite of being a director. He literally stands there after each take and says, "That was good. Let's do it again." No explanation, no guiding the actors. He just waits until he sees what he likes, even if it takes sixty takes to get there. I loved American Graffiti, but for a director of "such note" Lucas is an amateur.

The Da Vinci Code in Brief

We could hash this out at length, but instead I'm just going to post two great quotes I read tonight before passing out after another 15-hour day of catering. Joshua Taylor put it succinctly, "The book that everyone owns and no one has read becomes the movie that everyone is excited about and can’t tell you why."

And Joe Utichi explains, "Perhaps an interesting side-piece to those already fanatical about the book, but ultimately a lifeless adaptation that reveals the flaws of its source. So Dark, the Con of Dan Brown."