By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Reeler Link Dump: Rain or Shine Edition
Nothing inhibits work like rain crashing diagonally into my window. Well, that and a mild hangover. Nevertheless, I am here for you, even if I have to rush through a few things if I am to have any chance of getting caught up:
–All right, all right: Last night’s Da Vinci Code Debate did not quite plunge New York into the sooty, swampy apocalypse I feared (I swear I will never take a publicist at face value again). That said, a press release distributed this morning says that the debaters still brandished their “verbal boxing gloves of truth” for a little intellectual bloodshed. “Sales of movies and controversial books about Jesus Christ are one thing,” said minister and Reeler Hall of Famer Mitch Glaser, “but none compare to the most powerful, truthful, historical and most read book in the world: the Holy Bible.” Well, Mitch, if your book is so fucking great, why did Ron Howard want to film the other one? Hello?
–MCN kingpin David Poland surveys the 2006 Oscar field. I gape increduously, drink a fifth of bourbon and cry myself to sleep.
–IFP and Current TV will team up this summer to select 10 documentary shorts for inclusion in something called Current/IFP VC2 Showcase. The Reeler passed along the heads-up a while back about Current’s nifty DIY content model, but Variety’s Ian Mohr now reports that with IFP involved, filmmakers selected for the showcase will also have their work screened for industry eyes at September’s IFP Market. So take note, rookies: Assuming you can throw something together by the June 30 deadline, this is some of the best potential exposure going.
–To all of you readers who are always writing me to inquire who or what will screen your latest made-in-India masterpiece, you can stop e-mailing now.
–The cult anticipating Strangers With Candy‘s big-screen debut will not have to count the seconds much longer, it appears: NewFest, the city’s pre-eminent gay and lesbian film festival, will be screening the long-awaited, only slightly troubled film as its opening-night selection June 1. As an added bonus, the asskickers at indieWIRE will host a discussion with SWC star Amy Sedaris and director Paul Dinello June 8; NewFest executive director Basil Tsiokos will moderate. Stay tuned here as The Reeler will be catching up with Tsiokos and NewFest’s 18th annual gay old time in the weeks ahead.
–Amid the scores of Tribeca round-ups available out there in the nebula of the Web, only one has readers brilliant enough to dismiss Snow Cake as a “retard movie of the week.” Harry Knowles, how do you do it?