winding down

well hey there.

cannes is great and things are winding down. I leave monday back for home and finals...yuck, but this has been a really genuine experience, I hopefully would love to do this more. I've been updating you kiddos on my favorite films of the festival and it's come down to this. I won't attach anything if I've already done it in previous posts.

GREAT FILMS---

Heartbeats ---> absolutely love

Animal Kingdom ---> A twisted Australian American Gangster meets Cinderalla Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5BsYRmMfus

straight up ballsy and awesome

straight up ballsy and awesome

The Myth of An American Sleepover ---> super totes magotes

Exit Through The Gift Shop ---> best ever

GOOD FILMS---

Bang Bang Club ---> Black Hawk Down meets Pullitzer Winning Photographers

Blue Valentine ---> Heartbreak film. Really powerful

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps --->Surprisingly Good

Happythankyoumoreplease ---> a really good feel good film

These are my favorite and they are simply great.

you really must try and see this film

The Myth of an American Sleepover.

This film was just great and well done. Really made me dream of highschool and growing up in middle school and everything that went with it. I straight up missed it after watching this movie. Don't get me wrong it's a very mature film, but it's a journey and an experience, all in one night on the last day of summer. I LOVE it. I mean that picture enough sold me on it.

You know. Here's a quick trailer. The trailer isn't really great to be honest and it doesn't accurately protray the film but maybe it will we your appetite.

http://vimeo.com/9315965

I remember highschool days and it's really nostalgic. It was quite fun. I even remember getting stressed out several times, but those concerns pale in comparison to what I experience now. Remember when all you had to worry about was school, sports and your latest crush? Man. that's all I have to say for now.

Another film that kinda impacted me was Blue Valentine.

http://www.trailerspy.com/trailer/7924/Blue-Valentine-First-Look-Clip

I think it will hit american theatres, maybe, maybe not, but if you have ever been in love, and gotten your heart broken, like deeply. This is really effective. It really explores it. It stars ryan gosling and michelle williams and it's really well done. It leaves you exposed with real feelings, and intriqued and interested regarding this institution called love. How people fall in love, and how they sometimes fall out of it.

Ok I have become incredibly lazy trying to attach video and photographs however everyone of these films are great, and deserve your time and energy to appreciate them, so I strongly suggest you do.

One more thing.

The other night I had dinner with the man behind www.firstshowing.net everyone needs to go here. Just a great heads up on films and the industry and he's really cool and rad and knows what's up. Most of the links I send ya'll are from him so just a lil shout out. He has more info on a lot of these films I have seen as well for sure check it.

www.firstshowing.net

Ok right now I am rambling and not making any sense, and I'm really scatter brained sooo i'll have to go.

P.S. I think I am discovering something. Like I had mentioned earlier....stay tuned

au revour america

love and war; good and evil

I'm not quite sure where to begin.

Have you ever had so much to say you just choked up and weren't really able to express anything?

that's me right now.

love and war, good and evil. these are heavy institutions. sometimes films can help you understand them and feel for them. for better or for worse. here is a film you just may enjoy, and truly feel for. In American it's called heartbeats. It's simply great.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/04/30/gorgeous-trailer-for-xavier-dolans-les-amours-imaginaires/

love and war; good and evil

tis a gift to be simple

The past couple days have been quite the learning experience. Honestly I've seen some pretty incredible films as well as some crappy ones (Robin Hood). I've met a lot of intriquing and interesting people and I've gotten some time to really meditate on some things. I've decided I hate american cinema. Well....most of it. It seems like most of the films here in Cannes truly capture something. It's amazing. There are some really compelling stories built from the ground up trying to really capture something, not looking for some big payday.

Sitting down to think about it, people here have come for various reasons. Some to sell and distribute films and others to party and have a good time. One common theme however among several Cannes goers, seems to be this sense of status. Indulging in money, power, and pleasure. Whether subconciously or not these people are all here being driven by this force of nature to constantly want this fruitless sense of security.

I am deeply happy that among this sort of venture and lifestlye there are eye opening films that challenge this concept, that make you really think about what is important throughout the complications and worries of life. One of these films that did this for me was a sweet little documentery called Exit Through The Gift Shop, created by the one and only Banksy.

Now I gaurentee many of you have never heard of him, but let me start by saying I highly recommend anyone and everyone to see this amazing piece of artwork. I don't even really know where to begin.

This film literally rocked my brain on so many different levels. I think I'll just send you the link to the trailer and you can get the gist of it. As amazing as this trailer is though it doesn't do the film justice.

check out the trailer here

http://www.banksyfilm.com/

From this film....I learned and experienced a peace through simplicity. Many of the people portrayed here just lived. I don't know how to explain it. They found their passion, they just did their thing and didn't care about anything else but how to touch other people. This seems to be quite an interesting way to live huh? To really...just live? to not worry about today or tomorrow, or this or that, but to just....live....

here is some of his artwork, enjoy this.

Another thing that often gets in the way of people just living is money...

this an amazing film coming to theatres sometime this summer called

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. This movie stars Shy La Buff (most definitely spelled incorrectly) and Michael Douglas.

It is simply great. Really amazing. This too also just makes me want to live and not be consumed by the greed, and foolishness we are all so susceptible to.

so far Cannes is cool. good stuff. but more then the good stuff, I'm learning great stuff. It's like the cream filling, or the other side of the rainbow, or the city of el dorado......but not quite.

au revoir

p.s. I'm really tired

at it again....

You know, a lot happens in a year. It’s always funny looking back on things. In retrospect they seem like one big celestial blur, but when I sit down and think about it, it was a big deal. I think sometimes we take lots of things for granted. For example I think it’s a great blessing for me to be alive this year and to able to do the things I am doing and have been a part of. A year ago today was a very long time packed full of very different life shaping things. All in a year. One year….I’m sure everyone has had different crazy experiences in the past year. I know I have, no doubt about that one. I’ve met new and interesting people, been through shape shifting ordeals. I’ve had the craziest of highs, and the most dreadful of lows. I’ve been through emotional trials and I’ve been blessed through it all regardless. Things happen, people come and go, things come and go, nothing ever seems certain. Life seems to always be this shape shifting amoeba. At one moment you’re this and that, and at the flash of the clock you’re something else. Somewhere else, with someone else. I cannot stress just how daunting it is the people and experiences I have engaged along the way. I cannot express the things and people I may have lost as well. Truly the only constant is you, is me, is the person. How one grows, and changes and deals with the shape shifting. It’s always changing, but you’re still you. You’re still you…..

“You”, “Me”, “He” ,”She”. It’s funny there are a lot of people in the world. It sounds like such a cliché thing to say but think about it. It’s so very true when you meditate on it. I’m chilling in the airport staring at the various faces around me. I wonder what might be going on in their lives, what they might be going through, what they’ve been through, what they will go through. And then I think about how there are thousands of other airports, millions of other people cycling through day by day, interconnected with even more people. People from all the four corners of the world (even though the world is round). All of us shape shifting, most of us oblivious to an idea of what this crazy larger picture of our existence might be.



One of the craziest things to happen to me last year was my opportunity to attend the Cannes Film Festival. Not expecting it at all I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to go there again this year…today. I’m shape shifting. I’m at it again, and I don’t quite no what I feel. I think it will be all interesting with the screenings, and the people, and the atmosphere, but with the grand scheme of things…it can be well, I’m not quite sure.

It’s funny, I’m going to be revisiting some people I never thought I would see again, being involved with situations I thought I could never re-live. I’m intrigued to see the change. To see the shape shifting in myself, and in others. So many experiences are going to be brought to the table. It might be a good meal, or it might be some nasty slop. Who really knows?

It’s as if for a moment in this celestial blur, all eyes will turn to Cannes, France. A convention of shape shifting people, a celebration of life. There will be people from literally all over the world convening in one place. What a thing. I just can’t express it. Different people from different places, all here due to their life changing, shape shifting existence. Like myself and my experiences, they have their own things that have led them to the very place.

This festival is going to be something. I’m not quite sure how much I’ll be writing and blogging, but lets be real, yes there will be awesome films, and recognizable people, and for the sake of doing it, I’ll let ya’ll know about it. But I want to go deeper. I want to go above and beyond the event, beyond the media hooplah and the red carpet gurus or the trending thespian socialites. I want to try and take it into a deeper level, and discover something….who knows what I’m searching for. Who knows what anyone is searching for….

I’ll keep you posted on my explorations.

I’m just a boye in Cannes, but I’ll see what I can do…


P.S. Longboarding in the South of France is the best thing ever,