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April 2009
Blurred vision
We are a big hit in Blandford Forum, Dorset where 70 friends and Oscar & Jim execs came to the Hall & Woodhouse brewery last Friday, generously loaned to us for the night by Martin Scott. The laughs came in different places to Soho but if anything the film went even better down here (then again, we were in a brewery - and you could take you drinks in with you). I brought a camera and this was the best shot I got (then again, we were in a brewery - but thank god I didn’t shoot the film). The blurred visages are those of Cate Bell and Simon Bullivant - two of our sainted execs.
Good to go...
At last - the NTSC DVDs are in - I’m bundling them off to US Executive Producers TODAY.
Charlie by Fritz Lang
Harry’s had his say on YouTube, now here is Charlie, devastatingly lit by Paul F… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvkbIE9FHog
PAL vs NTSC
Understandable disquiet among US exec producers - the PAL DVDs are ready and are shipping out but the NTSC ones (I know, it’s consubstantiation and transubstantiation all over again) aren’t yet toasted. Bear with us folks - and apologies for the staggered release.
Heart on sleeve...
… lapel, jumper, satchel. Paul’s brilliant idea to make some O&J badges. Nicely designed by Phil Casey, who couldn’t make the screening. I haven’t worn a badge since my term as deputy head boy in 1983. Now I’ve got two and I can’t take either of them off. We’ll be giving them out at screenings and with orders from the Kiosk (while stocks last).
What is the collective noun...
… for Executive Producers? Suggestions welcome. Best one wins a DVD. There will be more photos on our flickr graffiti wall.
Rose & Natascha
Rose Pomeroy: Storyboards and Art Direction. Natascha Ostroumoff: Executive Producer.
Soho by night
Tuesday 7th April. Around a hundred people stopped what they were doing and made their way to the Curzon Soho for the London execs screening of Oscar and Jim. I had the posters and the crisps. Paul had the Blu-tack, the DVDs and the digibeta master. The cinema had everything else. Paul W was there early - reassurance and moral support. Armando Iannucci was next door with an advance screening of In the Loop. The Class was playing in another auditorium - better neighbours you couldn’t hope for. Lovely Laura from the Curzon helped us set up and rope off a section of the bar. And then in they came. I went down to the front and blinked into the light and said a few things about Anchovy Pictures and a few other things (mainly ‘thanks’) and then went and curled up into a ball at the back of the cinema. I sat next to Charlie and Harry, who watched as long as he could - and then a bit more - before legging into the night and onto the stage of the Duke of York’s Theatre. Everyone (bar me - I went to arrange crisp bowls and align postcards) stayed for the credits and no-one (thank God) came up after and said ‘I wasn’t on there’). But people did come and say things after - almost all nice things - tho’ what else can you say to a bunch of nervous filmmakers who have shown their first film? I forgot my camera. Seiji Okumiya obliged with a few snaps. And that (drum roll) is that - the film is out there and must make its way in the world. 