If you ever want your film to be actually seen outside the festival circuit, please don't let IFC pick up your distribution. Both Catherine Breillat's Last Mistress and Abel Ferrara's Go-Go Tales star Asia Argento, got great reviews at the festivals, were picked up by IFC and promptly shelved into oblivion. These films are from 2007, for God's sake. What are we waiting for here?
Meanwhile, the other Argento films that came out that beautiful year are already on DVD, Boarding Gate and Mother of Tears. And they're great, and we love them and we love Asia. But IFC meanwhile, you know, they're "waiting" for... what? For the zeitgeist to be right? Asia's zeitgeist is NOW, baby! They must be dumber than an Adam Sandler Christmas. I got no loves for those that would cock-block the American people from their cinematic goddesses, or me from Asia in everything she worked so hard to be in!!! Will you not rise with me, will you not stand up with me against IFC and all the other dumbass distributors who pick up great films and then go out of their way to make sure no one ever gets to see them?
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
FREE ASIA! Death to the IFC oppressors!
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Er, "The Last Mistress" got a theatrical release in June. Here's the NYT review: http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/movies/27mist.html
Not to mention both films showed up on On-Demand if you have digital cable reaching a potentially wider audience than the art-house circuit ever could.
I am looking forward to catching both parts of Soderbergh's Che Guevara film when it hit digital cable in January.
furthermore, the movie is available as British dvd. Check this review.
Granted, it's RC2 - but are there still Cinephiles with code-restricted hardware? I hope not..
Well, you all must think you're pretty smart. Gosh, should I take this post down? But really, these should be out on DVD, or is IFC trying to shut down DVD in favor of there dumb on-demand thing?
As an Abel Ferrara fan, I want to see both GO-GO TALES and MARY, neither one of which has had a decent release.
Damn right!
MARY got like a week release at Anthology, but not through any distributor as far as I could tell.
I love the last mistress and was excited by the fact that you can get a R1 version of the movie at Blockbuster now, but I'm also a little pissed off at IFC for taking such a long time to release a retail version.
Great movie!
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