Oscar and Jim

The whole enchillada

2010-08-01T14:06:43Z

… if the YouTube ten-minute rule annoys you (and exacerbates cultural ADD), you can see the full 28 minutes of Oscar & Jim on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/13783470

Run and run

2010-05-03T10:11:18Z

A lovely story about the Fantasticks, keeping it small and sharing the proceeds in perpetuity - a great model for theatre which we are trying make work with Truth Beauty too…

Don't say 'industry'

2010-04-27T06:59:51Z

Good piece in the New York Times showing how independent film is moving toward Anchovy’s ‘small fish in a big pond’ ethos…

Underground

2010-04-19T10:12:49Z

Interesting review from Michael Amherst on Notes from the Underground. Some thoughts about short film distribution too, as O&J is about to make its digital bow.

We're not in Kansas...

2010-03-17T17:34:12Z

… we’re across the river in Missouri, playing at the Kansas City Film Fest which runs April 14 - 18th. We’re beginning to feel very warm towards folks in the Mid West.

Wisconsin...

2010-03-10T10:55:23Z

The wonderful Meg Hamel and her team of discriminating programmers are showing O&J as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival 2010.. The schedule is up on March 18. Do check it out - it looks like a being a great fest (it has quite a cool logo too…)

Positively 4th Street

2010-03-04T17:32:12Z

On March 10 we are showing at an “Audience Choice Screening” for the New York City Downtown Short Film Festival. The idea is you go along, watch four or five shorts and vote for the one you want to see in the festival. Democracy. Screening is at the Duo Theatre at 62 East 4th Street in the East Village (the address is poetry enough). Book here. I also have a couple of comps since I’m going to be here in rural Dorset, not in NYC (let it go). If any NYC O&Jers want to go, drop me a line I will fix you up through the organiser, the poetically named Michelangelo Alasa.

Walter, Frederick

2010-02-16T11:51:02Z

Walter Frederick invented the Frisbee. Walter Chalkley on the other hand is the director of The Frederick Film Festival 2010. Oscar & Jim is playing in the festival (March 26 and 27) as part of a really interesting selection of films including The Messenger, 35 Shots of Rum and the original cut of The Blair Witch Project - which was shot in Frederick (for European readers, Frederick is in Maryland). Good luck and good wishes to Walter for a successful festival.

Our feature presentation

2010-01-18T14:58:20Z

The wheels are moving - we are aiming to shoot in July /August. Find out more and get involved at www.truthbeautymovie.com

Anchovy is served

2009-11-27T17:15:19Z

Here’s a real anchovy, looking like one of those lonesome Goya pictures of bream. It was part of my lunch one day last week. Meanwhile the Anchovy Pictures website is up - nothing fancy, just the facts. We’ll be ironing out a couple of glitches and also aiming to get the site for Truth Beauty - the new movie - up next week too. This is Deep Breath territory but we are doing it - planning to shoot next summer.

Phone sex

2009-11-27T17:09:09Z

A previously unseen outtake from the shoot. Wish it was a bit longer and we could see how fast these two reset and get back in the moment. Slightly cheesy ringtone Harry?

Plain funny

2009-10-30T17:13:53Z

She didn’t win but she could have done - one of the two or three really strong performers. Here’s Charlie’s set from the the Funny Women 2009 final at the Comedy Store.

Talent will out

2009-09-17T12:53:50Z

Many people have commented on Charlie Covell’s wonderful performance in Oscar & Jim. That’s not all she can do. On Monday 21st September Charlie is performing her stand-up act in the final of Funny Women 2009. It’s at the Comedy Store, Piccadilly Circus W1 and you can book tickets on the website. See you there.

A Day at the Graveyard

2009-09-11T21:06:23Z

A very nice thing has happened to Oscar & Jim. Somebody has written a song for us/about us/inspired by/adjacent to us. Not just somebody but in fact, recording artist Pimpernelle, aka the Mogul, aka A.K. Benedict. The song is called ‘A Day at the Graveyard’ and it completely gets Oscar & Jim and actually, totally rocks. We have a heard demo and are, at the moment, at the choked up/deeply touched stage. Other stages will follow but we don’t know what they are - having never had a song written and performed and recorded for/about/inspired by/adjacent to us before. Pimpernelle, thank you.

Child labour

2009-09-03T16:25:21Z

Still the summer holidays drag on. We have two bored children here so I have put Frances (8) to work addressing poster tubes for Oscar & Jim Executive Producers. Here she is doing a nice job in the ‘A’s.