The Making of Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring was very entertaining. It had lots of people being very silly indeed. Sadly it seemed like the hobbits were the only ones really interested in talking to the documentary maker...except for a very funny bit with Craig Parker. I'm not sure if this movie will get released, so if you get a chance to see it you totally should.
Sadly we didn't have time to stay and listen to the questions and answers beause we had Festival Express right after.
More bad film festival behaviour from the two old ducks sitting next to Lee. I can't figure out what they were thinking...Festival Express was a doco about a train tour of Canada in 1970 that had the Grateful Dead, the Band, Sha Na Na and Janis Joplin on board. These two women seemed to think they were actually at one of the concerts...they wooped at the end of songs, and clapped and stamped their feet. Someone should have told them that it was actually just a film and that some of those people were actually dead.
So the whole rest of the theatre is more or less silent and these two are taling to each other, loudly. In the quiet bits. I asked them to be quiet and they didn't hear me, so Lee said "Would you shut up, please?" and after a minute of revovering one told him not to be rude. Oh the irony.
The movie itself wasn't actually that great. It didn't have much documentary stuff, it was a lot of footage of the bands playing...full songs worth so it was a bit like a long music video. Janis Joplin singing Cry Baby gave me goose pimples. I never knew I liked her, but now I think I need an album of hers. The other bands were kind of samey. Sha Na Na were pretty funny. Three guys dancing at the front ofthe stage in tight gold suits. Eeesh.
Then we went to a party and I talked to a lot of people about movies. Especially Farenheit 9/11 which a lot of people want to see and Super Size Me which I want all the people I know to see.
Posted by jenni at July 25, 2004 10:09 AM