Fiction

My 2-Year Meme: Once

April 4th, 2009 • Agnes Varnum • 2 comments • Related Posts • Tags

I haven’t had many great loves in my life but I have had a few minor loves. And while usually I don’t talk much about my personal life here, as seems to happen for those of us who watch movies for a living, my life has crossed into the world of fiction through a story called Once by John Carney.

List-O-Mania

October 9th, 2008 • Agnes Varnum • Comments Off • Related Posts • Tags

Everyone loves lists! I find myself making lists but my mind wanders. I start thinking about other things related to what I’m making a list about and pretty soon, I’m off making cheese or buying shoes on the internet. But, I got an email from the folks at Coffee and Celluloid about a new list they put together, 25 Movies About Music You Haven’t Seen. Besides the pretentious title and absurd assumption that we won’t have seen at least some of the movies on their list, it’s actually a good list of films and their post has accompanying vids if you are interested.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Stop Making Sense would be on my top films of all time list, and there are some other gems like The Blues Brothers, The Last Waltz, Woodstock and Pink Floyd’s The Wall. I’m not sure Pump Up the Volume or Velvet Goldmine would make mine, but they are definitely worth watching. Thanks to Patrick Stafford for the tip.

Mark over at Docsider also pointed to a recent Vanity Fair list of their Top 25 Documentaries. I feel bad for publications that are mass market fare trying to delve into a complicated topic like documentary. There is no way they can win with movie people, but if you are wondering what docs should be in your queue, this is a good place to start. Take their audience award poll while you are at it.

Finalist #3

May 2nd, 2008 • Agnes Varnum • Comments Off • Related Posts • Tags

My new buddy Garret alerted me to a short he helped out with that is a finalist in an IFC.com contest. Watch “Like So Many Things… Unsaid” and vote for it if you like it; it’s coming in second place right now, so help a brotha out. (Tried embedding but the player is too wide for the column… must… click… through… ugh, I know it’s tough.)

Quick Feet, Soft Hands

April 29th, 2008 • Agnes Varnum • 3 comments • Related Posts • Tags

Reason #21 to be sad about not living on the East Coast any longer: Our fabulous Self-Reliant Filmmaker Paul Harrill’s new short, Quick Feet, Soft Hands, will be showing at the Maryland Film Festival after its Nashville premiere. It stars indie up-and-coming-Queen Greta Gerwig as “a young woman whose hopes of moving up are tied to Jim, a minor league baseball player. As Jim falls deeper into a batting slump, the couple must cope with the day-to-day realities of being young and poor. And they must confront the prospect that they may never make it to the big leagues.”

Best of luck to Paul and team, and if you are in the area or headed to the fest, check it out yo.


Quick Feet, Soft Hands – Trailer from Paul Harrill on Vimeo.

Sundancing 08: Goliath

February 27th, 2008 • Agnes Varnum • Comments Off • Related Posts • Tags

Nathan Zellner and PJ RavalI know this is late, but since the will be playing shortly at SXSW, it’s still timely, and curses on flu!

I’m newly aware of David Zellner and Nathan Zellner (pictured with cinematographer and Austinite PJ Ravel). They hail from and in that respect, are now a part of my world, so I was excited to hit their screening. I mostly wanted to support of their work and hoped for a good movie. I was maybe a little surprised that I liked the as much as I did.

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