The rest of the day...

I saw five movies today! Here's the ones I haven't written about yet.

The Ballad of Jack and Rose, directed by Rebecca Miller and starring Daniel Day Lewis and Catherine Keener. GOOD STUFF!! Really beautifully done. DDL's performance was the best I've seen yet a the festival. Jena Malone was in it in a somewhat atypical role, which was cool. It was such a gentle, poignant story. One of the better films I've seen thus far.

Then I went to The Talent Given Us which was a quasi documentary about this guy's family driving cross country in a minivan. Lots of family drama. Lots of discussing stuff that you don't expect parents to discuss with kids and vice versa. There were a few good laughs, but mostly I was severely bored.

One thing that was cool, though, was that when I came into the screening I realized I had to go to do the bathroom so I asked the dude that was sitting by himself in the row behind me to watch my stuff. Then I read his badge and saw that it was Don Herzfeldt, the creator of Rejected! So we chatted for a while. He has a film in the Animated Shorts program. Need to see that.

Here are a couple more photos:

Here's Catherine Keener from the Ballad of Jack and Rose premiere:



Here's Elijah Wood yesterday:



Tomorrow I am definitely seeing Pretty Persuasion, Junebug, Saving Face and HOPEFULLY HOPEFULLY HOPEFULLY Strangers with Candy.