ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

above: Jen B., Rob, and Jen H. (friend of Jen B.) watching Date Number One above: Jen H. watching Dele, Jen B., & Shervin in a scene from Story 2 of Date Number One above: Jen H., Sujewa (DNO director aka self), Jen B. above: Jen B., Sujewa, Jewel [w/ Steve from Story 3 on the screen] above: Jen B., Fritz (from Story 4 of DNO)

above: Fritz, Jen B., Rob, Jen H. Happy 1 Year Anniversary (since the World Premiere on May 13, 2006) Date Number One!

originally published 8/6/06 Here's the link to the interview with John Stabb Schroeder, DC punk rock star/actor who plays the ninja Mark H. Temonium in Date Number One . Here's a taste of the interview: " Sujewa : One more question about "Date Number One": has playing a ninja rubbed off on your regular life activities - do you find yourself creeping along the wall at work or using small smoke bombs to cover your exit when you make a quick get away from a difficult social situation or using ninja martial arts techniques to get on to or get off of a crowded metro train? JSS : Not yet. But sometimes I like to put on the ninja outfit and headgear to go out on “ninja night maneuvers”- ha! " Enjoy. - Sujewa

originally published in a slightly different form on 2/6/07 Too hot to think? Summer got you down? Not too excited about the movies any more? Then go to The House Next Door blog & read this conversation between film reviewers Matt Zoller Seitz and Keith Uhlich re: cinema & 2006. The internet , & specifically blogs, are definitely good things for thinking & talking about movies, moviemaking & all manner of related topics. I can't imagine an article that interesting appearing in an easily accessible print medium anytime soon. And even if something like that article /post were to be printed in a magazine, not many people will have access to it because they either won't know about it, or by the time they hear about it the edition may be out of circulation or they won't acquire it because it will cost money to do so. But blog posts are free to read (most of them at least, right now), easy & relatively inexpensive to put up, and can be there on the web

That's from this Woody Allen interview at Spiegel . The interview is about Allen 's film Melinda and Melinda . - Sujewa

* Saw Knocked Up last night, good stuff, certainly one way to go with the "keeping an unexpected pregnancy" story line in a comedy, there can definitely be other takes on the subject, the audience at Silver Spring's Majestic theater dug it. Made me think about changes I can make to DNO to play to that audience/type of venue (big suburban movie theater), which leads to the final item in this post, but before that; (oh, spent most of the movie thinking about a recent-ex, very sad :( good thing i was watching a comedy) * New housemates - for the month of June & beyond we had 3 rooms open in the shared house that I live in, got 3 new housemates, one is an Iraq war veteran (lots of sad first hand accounts about the war, dude says it is a mistake for the US to be there now & was a mistake to go in the first place), lots of stuff happening at the house. Should be interesting. * Stomach ache - had me knocked out pretty much all day yesterday, I think it was the Ethio

Often times the film people I know and the film people that a lot of the indie film media writes about live in two different worlds; almost, it feels like, in two different time periods, but then, sometimes, these two worlds come together as they do here in this awesome & rather lengthy conversation with Charles Burnett conducted by David Lowery . Check it out. - Sujewa