"Two Harbors" and "The Quietest Sound" Featured at IndieFlix
For a few days last week, the two films were listed four times at the www.indieflix.com home page: Both were in the current Top 5 sellers; TQS was listed as a new release; and TQS was the top selling feature for a couple days. Also, several reviews of both films were posted at their blog (they still are, but a little farther down the list). Check out www.indieflix.com. And maybe buy a couple DVDs while you're there!
posted by james @ 12:53 PM
2 Comments:
Well, James, at long last I have finally managed to see "The Quietest Sound" in its entirety.
Not in a theatre, but on my P.C. at home. Watching the DVD on a flat P.C. screen gave it a more "filmlike" look than watching it on a T.V. set for some reason.
You are one crazy m.f. of a filmmaker. No budget but lots of GUTS! (I want to use another term but I'm chickening out.)
I think it all worked.
The very minimalism of it. The unblinking eye of the video camera. An unedited video recording of a police interrogation.
Definitely, this is an actor's (should I say actress's?) movie.
One take. No editing. The camera doesn't move and is not shut off.
Catherine E. Johnson had to make it work. If she doesn't project credibly, the film fails. I thought Catherine E. Johnson aced it.
Makes for easy postproduction. No?
But a hell of a lot of preparation I bet.
The interesting thing about the final twist at the end, I thought, is that it changes the viewer from the position of having been a spectator as we normally are as moviewatchers to having been a witness to something.
Well done. Makes "Two Harbors" look like a lite comedy by comparison.
Thanks, nils_rip. You should post your review at http://imdb.com/title/tt0806163/
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