The Clubhouse – Episode 15

It is seven o'clock on the east coast.
It is four o'clock on the west coast.
It is the 13th of October in the year of our Lord 2013.
Sunday night.
That can only mean one thing.
That the clubhouse is on the air.
And this time around, it's our second time being on the air this weekend.
It is season four, episode 15.
For those of you playing the home game, this is issue 190, too.
So we are two months away from episode 200.
We welcome you.
We are live from Dallas video, Fest 26 in Richardson, Texas.
In the same plaza as the Alamo Drafthouse cinema, wrapping up a huge weekend for Dallas
video, Fest.
My name is Rob and I got really good parking.
So that's important.
We welcome you.
No matter how you're listening, whether you're live right here on Ustream S.R. Russell's
already in the chat room, whether you're listening on our archive, this a few of you did have
already listened to last night's show on archive, or whether you listen on iTunes.
We don't care how you listen.
We're just glad you're here.
To my right here in the video lounge at Dallas video, Fest 26 is a man who's still waiting
for his laptop to boot up.
He is chat.
I'm just trying to be patient.
Are we having deja vu all over again?
It seems like it.
Also joining us again is the official fact checker of this show.
He is a man who has seen more movies in the last four days than I think I've seen in
the last month.
I'm not saying so.
I'm about to say.
You may know him as fun, don, go.
There's Mama column, don, Ford, I'm a column, don, Ford.
Why hello, everybody.
Welcome back, sir.
Well, thank you.
You know, I've lived this video Fest.
It's been work.
The video Fest and the show.
It hasn't really been work though.
Well, no, he's been a job.
He's been a job.
Video Fest and the show.
Oh, yeah.
We'll see.
The day is a very interesting day for a number of reasons.
Number one is the final day of Dallas Video Fest, 26, highly successful on all accounts
from people that I've talked to, big thanks to the people from Dallas Video Fest, 26
for having us Kelly Kitchens for taking care of us, all the people here.
You're going to be here for some great people as the show goes on.
But today is also a very interesting day because today is Don's birthday indeed.
I'm getting old.
Don turned 13 today.
We're very proud of him.
Mentally.
Mentally.
Well, that's not go crazy.
But you know, last week on this show, Chad was presented with some very nice gifts, which
I'm assuming you have not used the barbecue sauce yet.
No.
Okay.
Okay, that's that's good.
And you haven't watched the movie yet.
No.
Okay, good.
But since today is Don's birthday, there has to be gifts involved.
Yes.
And as is the tradition on this show, there is the, okay, that's an interesting gift.
And then there's the real gift.
So Chad and I went in a little shopping, talking to the microphones, we're not going
to get you something for your birthday, sir.
I know.
And Santa Claus didn't do birthdays.
We did have to do this ourselves.
Exactly.
Well, we start with the not so practical gift.
You are the official fact checker of this show.
So for next year, we've bought you a daily fact or crap calendar so that you can keep
up with all of your facts.
This will be either whenever I'm listening to the show or on the show, this will be with
me.
Russ also says happy birthday to you.
He's in the chat room.
Remember, if you're listening live, we do have a chat room, become a user right here
on you stream.
It doesn't cost anything.
Be part of our crowd.
And you can give us live feedback during the show.
Now, your serious gift, they all kind of go together, but I'm still going to give you
them one at a time.
More than one.
Oh, wait.
There's two of us.
We're going to start you with the Ned Stark pop character figurine.
I don't know if the headroom is not spoiler alert.
We're also going to continue on with the Terry and Lannister, not sure if that's actual
size or not.
It's close.
We have the you know nothing, John Stark figure for you.
John Snow.
And finally, you can have those without having the mother of dragons.
Well, she has a dragon with her.
Of course she does.
She's the other dragons.
You know, we bubble heads.
I have in my workspace.
Those are bubble hits.
No, but still you're going to go right next to my bubble head.
There you go.
This is cool.
I can't think you guys enough.
It's your birthday, man.
It's happy birthday to you.
Hey, do you have a deal last year on my birthday?
Nothing.
I was on the show.
Oh, that's right.
Because the show was on Saturday nights.
We've moved the show.
What, four times?
Every year.
That's what I give him.
The Prometheus DVD and then the Will Ferrells.
Russell, Russell wants to know if you got your birthday reading for Darth Vader.
Yes, I did.
Very excellent.
It's on Facebook.
Thanks so much.
They're Russell.
I appreciate it, buddy.
Dallas video fest 26 going very strong right now.
There's still more films tonight.
We actually last night got to watch via the the Alamo and their 4K projector.
Which, if you have not seen something in 4K projection, do yourself a solid.
These some girls show live from Fort Worth.
It took place on July 18, 1978.
That was re-released.
The director was there.
I kind of felt like I wanted to make a documentary about the road she's taken in this
thing.
Yeah, no kidding.
Read up on that, kids.
But while we're waiting for some special guests, let's go ahead and do some other stuff
that we do on this show.
Music new releases in wherever you buy music this coming Tuesday.
A brand new album from Gary Newman.
The man you remember from cars.
There.
There.
There.
He will be releasing splinter songs from a broken mind.
This is not an album about the rat from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Well, thank God for that.
We have a couple of albums that we don't have titles for yet.
And this was as a Friday.
So I'm sure it was an ASAP mob.
It was a wrap group for the kids with the clothes in the hair featuring ASAP Rocky.
And TLC releases a new album this week with a title to be announced.
Kaisima Combs, Big Wheel and others, I believe he's a country artist, Fallout Boy releases
a digital release called Pax Am Day.
Any band that's named it for a Simpsons reference, I'm already in.
And then one of them married a Simpsons, which is kind of weird.
Oh, God.
That's a man up.
Paul McCartney's new album, out of the title to new.
He actually did an impromptu concert in Times Square this last week at 11 a.m. on Friday.
He said on Twitter, hey, I'm going to do a concert in Times Square.
And they backed up a truck that had a makeshift stage and he did four or five songs off a new
album.
Nothing classic.
All the new stuff.
Oh.
A lot of people said it was very good.
Very good reviews came from that.
Yeah, but nobody's going to say anything bad about McCartney.
Pearl Jam, who will be supplying the soundtrack for the World Series this year, releases their
new album Lightning Bolt this Tuesday.
The World Series needs a soundtrack.
Always everything does because you can sell it.
You're gone.
A band that the only reason I know the name of this band is because they were on Letterman.
We are scientists, release an EP called Business Casual.
And Charles was mortal enemy.
Oh, no.
Scottie McCreary.
Oh.
That Bartola Cologne.
No.
Why would Bartola Cologne be releasing an album because we were just talking about the World
Series?
We never know.
Something wrong with you.
He releases CU tonight.
You're the walking phoenix.
You're the walking phoenix.
You're the walking phoenix.
You're the walking phoenix.
Trying to do an Arap album.
Yeah, but that was like a bit.
That was a goof.
Yeah.
There's boy.
You said you said it in more better way than I would have.
That's all I'm saying.
I got this unshuffled down.
I have to turn this down a little bit.
I'd rather not have Jeff Lins singing over us on the show.
I've got a lot going on tonight.
A lot going on.
This has been a big weekend.
You know, we're going to go over the winners now, Chad.
So we have so much time at the end, because I just don't know how we're going to be able
to pace this tonight if we don't get rid of it, get rid of it, get through some of
the stuff that we need to get through.
Okay.
Winners, because you know, this is not only a film festival, but there are awards
given out.
If you listen to our show last night, we had one of the award winners sitting right here
with us as this ain't no mouse music.
One, one of the awards.
We'll go over to all the winners right now.
The documentary feature winner, which I believe you saw, the jury prize, went to this
ain't no mouse music.
And the winner of the documentary feature was Nate Ton, which I believe you saw.
That was the one we said last night on this show.
Don't bring the kids.
Oh, no, do not bring the kids because it talks about was he an early pornography and stuff
like that.
Plus his regular career too.
So is he a two-faced guy?
People still debate it.
The narrative feature winners, the special jury prize, went to Destination and Planet
Negro by Kevin Wilmot.
This is a film basically all of the African Americans decide they're just going to go
and have it a new planet.
We talked about this at the press event, and I've heard it's disturbing and funny.
At the same time, but the winner is soft in the head by Nathan Silver.
Your animation winner.
I'm sorry.
Don't do this.
Okay.
Cool.
Your animation winner is Butterflies by Warwick Burton.
These shorts winners are pearl was here by Kate Marx and the honorable mention was every
Tuesday, a portrait of the New Yorker cartoonist by Rachel Loube.
The experimental winners, Dusty Stacks of Mom by Jody Mack and the honorable mention
was live back and enjoy it by Jessica Bardsley.
And all of the winners.
Wow.
If you see this on your sheet, all of the winners are going to get free software courtesy
of Jungle Software.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So, congratulations to all the winners right here at Dallas Video Fest 26.
There's still time.
If you want to catch some flicks, they're going to happen later this evening.
Earlier today, we had the Dallas Mavericks video team here.
I saw two today.
One was called when I walk is about a guy who lives in New York, probably about 25.
And he has a mess.
And it just shows the deterioration of his life due to that horrible disease.
And man, she said, yeah, most grosses, yeah.
And how he starts walk, he has to walk with the limp and then he has to use a walker
then it's wheelchair and now he can't even get around.
But the guy has an incredible thing where he wants to make this film and all the hell,
he doesn't let it, he does the best with what he has, you know.
It physically stops him, but mentally, he still keeps going.
Okay.
What else did you see?
I also saw the other one called Free the Butterfly, which is out of Poland.
It was a subtitle.
It's about a lady who has ALS or Lugeria's disease, horrible disease.
And the usual prognosis is, once you're diagnosed, she have about four years before you
can pass away to this uncurable disease.
And this lady has been around for 12 years.
Of course, she can't move or talk or anything like that.
But still, she writes plays and stuff like that and writes books and everything.
And how the disease affects her physically, but it doesn't let her take her back.
But it shows that it get in the bad and all that about that horrible disease.
But I think it's great that they're trying to put awareness to those two diseases to
hopefully somebody get a cure for those things.
Outstanding.
Would you say that you enjoyed one more than the other or was it kind of the same?
I'll say I like the character more in the MS movie when I walk, but I really felt for
the guy because here he is trying to walk and when he falls down to one scene, it's just
horrible.
You just feel for the guy.
You just feel for both of them.
They got their different personalities, but you know, I wouldn't say one's better than
the other though.
They got their different qualities and stuff, but they're both incredible movies.
You have also seen quite a few films here at Dallas the video of S26.
Would there be one that you would be willing to say right now was your favorite that you
saw from the weekend?
I'm so far that I've seen, I would say my top three would have to be short up, which
we talked about last time about the ocean rising and people living on the beaches.
Vessel was pretty very interesting.
The one with Tammy True was very, that's open to festival and Wednesday night and guillies.
But we still have one where possibly you're going to be seen tonight.
That is outstanding.
You did a lot of work this weekend, sir.
We could not be happy for the Empire.
And then the Empire appreciates it, trust me.
Also things going on today, we're going to go through some movie headlines for you.
We got some special guest line up coming up here just a moment.
We'll courtesy of you our friends at box office mojo.com.
We're going to give you the top 10 movies of the weekend dropping out of the top 10 this
week.
Looks like only one film has pulling strings, which is a Mexican-American film.
Dropped out of the top 10.
Your number 10 dropping from seven to 10 this week baggage claim.
The Mrs. Robin Thick, Paula Patton vehicle.
It's $2.057 million for a three week total of $18.2 million.
We do not have a budget on that, according to our friends at box office mojo.
In ninth place, dropping from six to nine, you can go ahead and try to go ahead and just
go now.
What do you mean?
Dropping from six to nine, giving them what the movie is.
That's all you done, John, with the Joseph Gordon Levitt and the Scarlett Johansson.
How you doing?
I still want to see it.
$23.34 million for a three week total of 20.
Is that budget right?
This was a $6 million film.
It's made 20 already?
It's nothing to sneeze at and that's his directorial debut.
Fair enough.
The Ron Howard Directive Vehicle Rush drops from five to eight this week, $2.364 million
for a four week total of $22 million on a $38 million budget.
This does not bode well.
So it doesn't.
Maybe the quickest drop out Ron Howard's film is from seven to eight this week.
And from eight to seven, it moves up a place as insidious chapter two makes a little
over $2.6 million for a five week total of $78.5 million.
Look at that budget on a $5 million budget.
God.
Fair enough, you can make horror flicks for next to nothing.
Prisoners goes from six to four, $3.7 million for a four week total of $53 million.
It has cleared budget.
I cannot bring myself to this film.
I can't do it.
It creeps me out.
And that's it's it's one of those flesh crawly type subject matters, especially being
apparent.
Chopping from three to five this week is runner runner $3.725 million.
Two week total.
It's halfway to budget.
Not good.
Debuting at number four of film you and I saw, and if you subscribe to this show and
I choose you know that as a machete kills makes just under $4 million.
I couldn't find the budget in this thing.
I tried the bronze medal drops from the silver medal this week.
It's cloudy with a chance of meatballs to export $10.2 million.
It has cleared budget in three weeks and it lost 127 theaters.
Let me see if I can find the budget for machete because I think I found it when we did
the special edition.
And Captain Phillips debuts in the silver medal position making $26 million this week.
But nothing can stop gravity.
It has made.
Remember when I just told you Captain Phillips made $26 million.
Gravity made $44.265 million for a two week total of $123 million.
It has cleared budget and week two $100 million budget on this film.
That's impressive.
Don's trying to get some things lined up for us right now.
He's he thought he loved it.
He said you have to see the movie in IMAX 3D.
The only way to see this film according to fond on go.
The budget on the machete.
3.797.
So it's just about cleared.
So two screenings this week, ACOD and machete kills.
Wait a minute.
That's what it says.
It's grossed.
On box office mode.
Do we need to start direct testing on the show?
No.
Okay.
We do have reviews up for those on our website, www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
You can also, if you subscribe on iTunes, you might get some bonus features.
Okay.
But just 20 million.
We have bonus features on this show.
We have a second disc.
But Tom Hanks doing very, very well with Captain Phillips.
He announces this week that he has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Apparently, he's had the symptoms for over 10 years and nobody ever diagnosed it.
Wow.
You would think a guy like Tom Hanks would have a little bit better medical care than
that.
Russ, yeah.
Russ just told you in the chat room that the budget was 20 million.
Yeah.
So thank you, Russ.
Elizabeth Olson, the other Olson kid, has now been announced as your Scarlet Witch for
Avengers Age of Ultron.
How do you feel about this, sir?
It is confirmed.
It has been confirmed this past week.
I don't know how I feel about this.
I don't know if I've ever seen anything else he's done.
But I think one to maximum, if I don't really think Elizabeth Olson, let me see what
she looks like.
I really don't know.
She looks like an Olson.
That's not a good thing.
We have an announcement.
If you're a fan of Angry Birds, we broke on this show about six months ago that there
will be a film.
We have directors for the film now.
It will be directed by Claudia with a chance of meatballs animator Fergal Riley and Clay
Katius, who was an animator from Tangled.
Either one of them have directed before, and they're going to be directing the Angry Birds
movie.
That's a great sign.
July 1, 2016, so when nobody has any money left after the summer of 2015, okay, I'm
looking to do it.
I just, I don't see it, dude.
I don't see it.
I mean, this is what Samuel Jackson kind of let slip out, isn't it?
He had said there was a rumor, but nobody it was confirmed this past week.
Michael B. Jordan, who was in Fruitvale station getting a lot of acclaim right now.
He's also going to be in the Rocky Spinoff film about Apollo Creed's kid.
He had said in an interview this week, he actually auditioned for episode seven.
That's where, okay, that's where I saw this name come from.
Yeah, did you also see the artwork that went up last night of your first original character
that Disney has come up with for Star Wars Rebels?
No.
I don't know if you read this big headline today that I know is going to make you very happy.
I'm very whatever about it personally.
And Don, you probably want to get on this one too, Don's return to us.
Big announcement from Disney today.
Maybe it was late yesterday.
I'm not sure.
Chad, you know, Disney rolled very well.
You've been there a couple of times, yeah.
You've been to Animal Kingdom.
They're adding a new sub-park within Animal Kingdom.
Don, you want to take a guess what it's based on?
Give us your ones.
No, that would be HBO, which is Time Warner, which is not Disney.
Thunder Smurfs.
Thunder Smurfs?
Yes, they are getting a park within Animal Kingdom.
It's going to lie but screen the Africa part and the Oasis.
We're actually going to be moving Festival of the Lion King to a different place.
Okay.
Don't see how that works, but all right.
That's going to happen.
That's happening, people.
Chris Pine and Christophe Vaults are being sought to be a father's son duo in Horrible
Bosses 2.
The rumor is that Christophe Vaults is ready to pass on it, but Pine is in.
Is he ready to pass on it?
He's very much considering not doing it.
I really couldn't see him doing that.
Doesn't seem like his bed.
All right, we're going to take a pause here from our normal flow of business because we
have guests.
Don, you want to put your headphones on there, brother?
Don's been running around like a chicken with his head cut off, trying to keep this thing
on the rails.
Tell him about the movie.
Get it out.
Absolutely.
Would you like to go ahead and introduce our guests?
Don.
Don's like, I need to breathe.
Well, I've got one name and there's three people here.
So I'm assuming they don't all have the same name.
Okay.
I'm very confused right now, but that just means it's a normal show if I'm confused.
Joining us now, representing a film called Strings, it is a narrative short.
Gentlemen, I'll let you introduce yourself so I don't screw up too badly.
I'm Derek Presley.
Derek Presley, the director.
Okay.
It's a Jeff McGee, the producer.
Okay.
I'm Brandon Schwind.
I did the visual effects.
Okay.
Outstanding.
Welcome, gentlemen, to the show.
We appreciate you coming.
We are alive from Dallas Video Fest 26.
You are listening to the Clubhouse podcast.
We're live normally every Sunday nights, 70s from 4 Pacific.
But this is our second show this weekend.
So, gentlemen, welcome.
We're glad you're here.
Short film.
Oh, wow.
So you guys have this thing.
It can.
This here by the looks of things.
So you speak right into that things over here.
They can't.
They can't film festival short film corner.
Go ahead and tell everybody about the film that's listening right now.
It's a fantasy short.
It's a film basically about a puppeteer.
It creates a show in the village.
He's not really listened to by the children.
So he creates a pretty unique show that kind of has a twist in the end.
And it strings with a Y.
The people want to look it up.
I'm looking.
You handed me this beautiful, beautiful card for the film.
That has the one sheet on one side.
Could it be honest.
Looks a little creepy.
It's actually a horror film where we feel.
Yes.
Chad's in.
Many, many children die in it.
Wow.
Lord.
It's puppets.
So there's very creepy elements.
And when you're.
You know, whether this is a bit or not, the tagline is.
But the tale will always be told the show must go on.
So that doesn't steer me either way at this point.
But.
So it is a short.
Now tell tell our audience how short the short is.
The short is eight minutes long.
And we shot it on 35 millimeter film at when Baxahatchi.
Ah, yes.
Scarborough fair over there.
Okay.
So you guys were they also right now with screams, which is a big haunted house.
Which again, not helping.
But very big deal.
A huge settle land down there.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
It was basically what we used out there was a place called the cat and fiddle tavern.
Okay.
During this during the Scarborough fair, it's used as a bar.
And what's funny is that, you know, for those who've been to Scarborough fair, you know,
they get the scientists, they turkey legs and ATM and all this stuff.
Right.
But when we actually shot it actually looked like a ghost town, like a ghost European town.
And that's exactly what we were, what we were looking at.
Okay.
Nobody was there.
Right.
So it was just, it was just awesome.
That's always the odd thing when you go out for Scarborough fair reminds me of that scene in the cable guy.
We're tuning Garoppolis.
There was no silverware in Medieval times.
So there's no.
And by the way, would you like a refill on your Pepsi?
Yeah, that would be the same as the ATM signs.
Absolutely.
The old ATM.
The old ATM.
The old ATM.
I even got on the phone with Coca-Cola where they were looking for,
I was looking for donations like getting as many drinks as possible because of the 160 degrees outside when we shot.
And I took them to their product placement line.
And so the film actually takes place kind of in the 1800s.
So it's like we couldn't really use Coca-Cola.
And it was the great, the puppeteer holding a Coca-Cola somewhere.
But maybe like working into his tapestry on the wall.
Just, you know, just, just the wave.
It just would have been based on the original recipe.
Back when it was more.
He has a good point.
Right, right.
Enjoy me.
The old energy drink.
When Red Bull was just a Red Bull.
The blood of a Red Bull.
So you've been to Canada with it.
Now, let me ask you, first of all, are there plans to expand this into a full feature?
Should you have the opportunity or is where it sits now kind of where it needs to be?
I would say this is what it is.
It's a short, short tale, small story.
And that's what it is.
And that's where I don't see any kind of reason to make it a feature.
And it's doing what it needs to do.
And we're happy with it.
And how long ago did you film this?
We filmed it in July of 2012.
Okay, so last year.
Last year.
Of course, you know, filming anything in Texas in the summertime is dicey.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And the fact that it was, you know, we have our poor actor who's in his 70s.
And he's in this big, big European costumes.
You know, it's not, it's not very healthy, but.
How long did it take you to actually film the entire thing?
I mean, because I figure.
Three day shoot.
So three day shoot in a hundred and six degree heat.
Were there waivers involved?
And for those that we have listeners, you know, all over the globe.
And I'm not originally from here.
You know, I'm from South Florida originally.
And so moving out here, I moved out here in 95.
My thought process was, I'm from a tropical climate.
I can handle summer.
That summer, I'm sitting in a car with no AC stuck on the freeway going,
someone killed me.
You don't, it's hard to explain to people.
Like I go back what I call home for vacations.
And I'm like, oh, what's it like there?
And I'm like, you see this thing that makes the trees moved?
And they're like, breeze?
I'm like, yeah, we don't have that.
And when we do, it's like someone's constantly following you around
with a hair dryer all the time.
That is so true.
So, so you've been to con with this.
How, how was it received there?
It was received very well.
I mean, the short film corner shows about thousand films.
And because it was shot on film, it was one of like ten films
that were shot on film there.
So, it received very well.
And every day I was able to get a kind of a log of how many people
watched it each day because people were able to get on a computer
and watch anything in the short film corner.
So, I mean, we got about 100 views a day.
Nice.
And I had people like find me specifically.
And, you know, because they could see these cards and such.
And, you know, and tell me how good they liked the movie.
And it certainly was a terrific opportunity to advance myself
in Derek and Brandon's career.
And this being handled by a spider circle films.
Yes.
On Twitter at spider circle.
Now, what is, can you, you want to plug any other films
that you guys are working on right now with spider circle films?
Well, right now, spider circle films is me.
Fair enough.
Yeah.
I have two feature films in the script stage at the moment.
One of them is based off of another film I made called Neal,
which is about a Swingpool clean machine burdening on couple.
So, that is being...
The answer.
You're two for two with demand on my right.
I'm just letting you know.
So, that's being expanded to a feature at the moment.
There's also a Facebook page strings movie.
And remember, that's with a Y, not an eye.
Where does the film go from here?
What's the next stage of the plan?
Oh, just more film festivals.
Like, for where?
Like, giving you the chance to plug where you're going to be,
because I want people to know.
Well, we're still on the festival circuit at the moment.
So, that's going to be Texas show for the Dallas Video Festival,
which is actually a traveling show.
That's going to be tonight.
Yes.
That is tonight at 9 p.m.
And it's a traveling showcase.
That'll showcase around Texas.
So, if you're in Texas, you hopefully have the opportunity to see it.
And there are some other film festivals that we're waiting to hear back from.
And hopefully some internet platforms.
Like, in such as Indie Flicks, we'll be able to pick up strings.
And you'll be able to see it there.
Yeah, short, it's international.
That's one that we're really trying to go through.
Now, are you guys Texas-based?
Yes.
Okay, so this is kind of your wheelhouse at this point.
Yeah.
And for all the, also for people that don't know,
the Texas film culture is huge.
Yeah.
And people, that's nothing people don't understand.
As Texas is a huge bed for film now.
And that kind of leads me into my next question.
You shot it on 35 mil.
Was that a conscious decision?
Or was that a decision of necessity?
Or...
That's a, that was two things.
Jeff wanted it.
He was one of the first things he wanted.
And the DP wanted it.
But...
I mean, he was like a kid in a candy store, you know.
When your director of photography says shoot this on this,
you looked at me and did the eye and you go,
okay.
Yeah, exactly.
And...
Yeah.
And I mean, how I started as a filmmaker was I started photography.
So I did a lot of, a lot of film work through that.
And whenever I moved over into filmmaking,
I had always wanted, naturally, I had always wanted to make a film on film.
And whenever I read the script and I read about Derek's vision
and seeing some of the storyboards that Brandon had drawn in such,
you know, there's just no other, there was no other format that I could think of
that to really execute the project just with the way that the sets are
and costumes and even grants acting just kind of just reacts to it.
Now, Brandon, you've been so talkative.
I want to, you know, give you a chance here.
You did the visual effects for the film.
Yeah, I did the visual effects also helped Derek with creating the story on there.
And I also did the poster and I guess like random bits.
Yeah.
There were some posters in the film too.
These are all stars.
Some art direction things, I guess.
And see, that's what I love about film festivals like this one.
It's, it's that gorilla mentality of, you know,
I'm a huge Kevin Smith fan.
Have been since, when Clark's hit video in 95, I was there
because I saw a trailer and I'm like, I don't know what this is,
but I have to watch this.
And when you basically your entire crew for that film was like 20 people
for the whole thing.
I mean, you're acting, you're doing catering, you're doing, I,
it's what I love that that spirit is still alive because we live in an age where
everybody just wants to throw money at stuff, which is nice.
Don't get me wrong.
Yeah, you have the money to throw.
But when you have that spirit of, you know what, I want to make this film.
And we're going to do it by hook or by crook.
And that's what I love about things like this and what you guys are doing
is there going to be a point where this will be available to the masses
that may, maybe, may not be able to watch this at a film festival?
Well, I mean, you can always contact myself or Derek if you want to see
a copy of the film.
If you go to spidercirclefilms.com, you can contact me through there
and if you don't want to see a, see a copy of the film.
You can always go on YouTube and look at the trailer.
Just type in strings.
S-T-R-Y-N-G-S.
And you can always see a trailer from there.
The other thing that I wanted to say is that a lot of people are
surprised nowadays that short films are distributed.
You're not going to make tons of money.
But that people do pick them up.
They do give you a check for it and they do play them on online platforms or on TV.
So, you know, there's some really good little,
short international, really great little television station.
You can get on it.
You can have AT&T and direct TV.
It's kind of like that.
You're talking to you guys.
They're a huge universe customers.
So...
Don too.
Don does as well.
Don, you can talk.
It's okay, brother.
It's your birthday, man.
Get in there.
Happy birthday, dude.
Well, thank you.
And Neil, the other film I made is on Indie Flix, actually.
So, like what Derek just said, I mean,
there are another platform that really caters to short films.
And the one that I did before this too,
called the 82 peddler.
That's on short international.
And again,
and the advent of media in the internet,
it's kind of, it's changed the game.
Absolutely.
It gives everybody...
It gives these two spares their own radio show.
So, you know, if Dalette us do that,
I mean, I don't know if they let us do that.
I don't know if they're aware that we're doing it.
But tell me a little bit about Grant James,
who starts in the film as Embrojio, The Great.
Well, he is a local Dallas actor,
but he's actually quite prestigious.
He was in many films that most people would probably know of,
such as Tombstone and...
Great.
He plays Dr. Goodfellow in Tombstone.
He is also on the Cures case of Benjamin Button.
He is also in another film with Jack Black called Bernie.
So, he's kind of a little local celebrity around here.
Good Lord.
For all that him and his wife, Julie, have done.
You just look him up on...
Yeah, pulled up his IDV page.
God, Lee.
He's still scrolling.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a lot of voice over work too.
Oh, really?
And that was one of the biggest fears
was something happening to him.
But nothing did, thankfully.
Yeah, I know that he's going to be in...
I think it's going to be in Dumb and Dumber 2.
I think he just...
I'm so looking forward to that.
And for those that don't know that is spelled Dumb and Dumber T-O.
That is the actual title of the film.
I can't wait.
So, the first production stills were released a week before last.
And it's...
The kid in the wheelchair is back.
Yeah, he is.
And...
The blanket?
Yes, yes.
With the bird.
Me and Chad think it's iconic movie.
He just thinks it's okay.
For me, it's iconic.
For me, that movie had moments.
Like, the sequence of Jeff Daniels on the bathroom,
you can't...
That is iconic for me.
That was my answering machine message for about an year.
He's out...
I've seen in the hot tub.
That's my favorite.
When he says...
Yeah, I don't pay attention to whatever...
Whatever was Jeff Daniels.
They're in a heart-shaped hot tub together.
That is...
Whatever was.
I don't know.
I really wouldn't pay attention to this.
It's gonna be about...
Not bad.
Anybody knows...
I'm pretty sure he knows that movie line for line.
Pretty much.
For me...
Put a strip on the barbie, eh?
With that film...
Jeff Daniels coming off the newsroom...
Yeah.
It's gonna be hard for me to wrap my brain around this.
Because I'm such a fan of action.
He won the Emmy.
Which...
Well deserved.
If you've never watched the newsroom...
I'm calling you a communist right now.
Go watch that show.
I've seen the first 10 minutes of the pilot and I'm already hooked.
I just need to get like Netflix or...
HBO go.
HBO go, get to like...
That's how he got caught up on...
Three seasons of Game of Thrones.
I was bugging him for like a year.
Dude.
I'm not saying that I'm giving you my password.
I'm not saying I'm not giving you my password.
But go catch up on Game of Thrones.
How many times have I been telling you to watch Suns of Anarchy
and the following?
How many?
Have you seen my DVR?
Don't!
My DVR begs for mercy when I...
Please don't record anything else.
When I walk in the door every day.
We're bugging down.
I know we are.
But we're having fun and that's all that matters, sir.
We got these guys here.
We're gonna have some fun with them.
So...
Strings movie on Facebook go look it up.
I'm sure that the trailer's probably on the Facebook page too.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
There's a...
If not, there's a YouTube link there.
There's always stuff there, yeah.
Spider Circle on Twitter for Spider Circle films.
These guys are gonna get to have their moment here
in about an hour and twenty minutes or so.
The Texas show is tonight at nine.
So if you can get here, get here.
We're hanging out here.
There's gonna be...
Is the Texas show gonna be here?
Is it gonna be with the Alamo?
It's at the Alamo.
And...
Why else do you need an excuse to go to the Alamo draft house?
Let's just be...
Let's call it for what it is.
Yeah, yeah.
I love the Alamo.
I couldn't be happier that that thing's open.
We've been there what four or five times.
They've been here six weeks.
Yeah.
I went saw...
I went saw...
About a month ago, I went saw the show Battle Royale.
Which...
I've never seen it.
I've never seen it.
I've never seen it.
I've never seen it.
And...
I don't know.
There was a sequel.
They actually did a sequel to it that he stumbled on when we were at a DVD.
So he's like, dude, why is there a four blu-ray version of this movie?
I'm like, it's only an hour and a half long.
We were at the first press screening here of your next...
Yeah, we saw your next over there.
The very first press screening.
Very much enjoys that.
But we're talking about their film.
I know.
That's...
It's my fault.
I take credit.
Strings with a Y.
Look it up.
If you're gonna be at a film festival around Texas or wherever this thing winds up,
check them out.
Or if you can get here tonight for the Texas show, it will be featured.
Have they given you guys a specific time or in where you're gonna be out in the order of the show?
The whole show case starts at nine.
I don't know when exactly our film goes on.
But it will be in between nine o'clock and ten thirty.
That's for sure.
Hey, there you go.
Yeah.
That gives you an hour and a half point no to get here.
Leave it the half time of the cowboy game.
You still got time to get here.
Go Cowboys.
Hey.
The Reds is a big game that I have with the Redskins.
Or as many press outlets are now calling them the Washington football team.
That's really a thing.
No, that's really a thing.
Yeah, that's been a thing for a while.
Well, no, it's really caught fire here in about the last month.
Because now major outlets like Peter King from Sports Illustrated is now doing it.
There's like three or four huge reporters that will not call them the Redskins.
They're just calling them the Washington football team.
And dance nighters going, yeah, still not changing it.
Because he's dance nighter and he's the Jerry Jones of the Northeast.
So the film is strings.
Jeff Derrick Brandon.
Thank you guys so much for coming and hanging out with us.
Check the movie out.
Or at least check out the trailer if you can't get here.
Find out when it's going to be showing somewhere near you.
And Jeff even said email him.
You can do a showing of it where they'll come showing your house.
We're doing a sequel.
Oh, there there you go.
It's called cables.
Jeff has some other why.
Later if you want him to sit on to it features him and him.
Some candles live.
Some very white.
Miley Cyrus shows up at a certain point.
Some a bottle of Boone's farm.
Wow, this just got awkward.
Okay.
Gentlemen, thank you so much.
Best of luck to you tonight.
Best of luck with the film.
I want to have a beer with you guys like as soon as possible.
Yeah, I think you should.
Thank you gentlemen.
Our honor to have you.
So we're going to keep going with our movie headlines while we're waiting for our next guest to come in.
Indie five news.
As Harrison Ford says he would do Indie five in a New York minute or probably how much it went.
I want to do this.
So there's that.
Do we would you.
Given the last two, would you go to Indie five?
Through Gritted Teeth.
Yes, you would go it.
Yeah, it's kind of like.
If episode one was on, would you turn it off?
As much as I think it is an anti star wars film, it's still a star wars film.
Jamie Foxx in talks to play Martin Luther King Jr. in a bio pick.
Is going to be directed by Oliver Stone.
Oh boy.
But the king of state has signed off on this.
They haven't dorsed it.
So a lot of people weren't sure about Denzel playing Malcolm X.
And it worked brilliantly.
Well, I just know how whenever he was on the promotions trail.
How he would constantly for ray.
No matter what he was doing, he would constantly slip into character during interviews.
And it's a, it just got to be almost a little bit too much.
It's like he couldn't stop being ray.
So I hope he doesn't during the middle of every interview he gives.
Slip into the, I have a dream speech and just beat it to death like he did.
When he was when he was promoting ray.
Yeah, but I don't know that I mean, I can see where you're going with that.
And I know this sounds like a cop out because I say this about a hundred times a month on the show.
I'm going to reserve judgment.
Yeah, you need to find it better.
But because I.
With the way with the way movie making has evolved in the last 20 years.
It's amazing what you can do.
Oh, don't get.
I can see him pulling it off.
I can definitely see him pulling it off.
Just like I'm incredibly enthusiastic about.
I just want to show you guys that this is the kind of video that you're going to watch.
The Idris Elba's portrayal of, of Mandela.
We're getting our next guest lined up by apology for the signals that are going across the room.
That's why this is an audio medium.
We have news.
For those of you fans of 50 shades of grey.
The man slated to play.
Is it Christian Gray.
Is that his name?
Yeah, the book.
Didn't read it.
Don't plan on.
Fair enough.
But Charlie Hunnam was picked to play the male lead.
He has dropped out.
This is why.
He said he doesn't want this to be his showgirls.
Plus, he also said, his representative also
said that he's not sure that he's
prepared to deal with all of the things
that are going to come with that role.
OK.
Respect.
Yeah.
Respect it.
I mean, if you're worried about getting pigeonholed,
this would be one of those roles where that would happen,
or you would get typecast.
Because there's three of these books.
So with the way Hollywood's going,
that could be nine movies.
There's just three.
As far as I know, just three that's been published so far.
I think it was only supposed to be a true only big.
OK.
I think it was going to be like a continuing series.
And we're just, uh, Russ says there will be
a fast and furious eight and nine.
Yay.
I stopped at three.
I stopped at one.
I, but the first one wasn't bad.
It's just I'm not into the whole car culture thing that visually
the first one was cool because they did that whole running
through the engine thing that you hadn't seen before.
I like movies with car chases in them.
I don't want the whole movie to be a car chase.
So you're not discounting ludicrous peasant actor.
Chris the great Chris Bridges.
He was good and crash.
I'm interested in him because I love him as crash.
I think he fits in there.
By the way, three books total in the 50 shades of games.
Trilogy.
Great.
You know, we've had an upwheel shot this weekend.
What's one more?
What's one more?
We just put a bullet in the doughnut spare in the trunk.
Bullfixion style.
Are you kidding me?
I sure shot the spare tire in the face.
Let's do a little bit of tech talk here real quick.
If you are a fan of Final Fantasy 4
from the Super Nintendo, it's going
to be available on iOS and Android devices
by the end of the year.
Now, you came in later in this franchise, sir.
I'm not mistaken.
I didn't really jump on board Final Fantasy
until seven in the PlayStation era.
And my lovely wife would back me up on that.
She was the same way.
Seven for that.
Final Fantasy work on an iOS device?
I don't see how.
I mean, well, I guess if they have the...
Because I've got some classic arcade apps like on my iPad.
And I don't like the feel of it.
I don't like what I'm playing spy hunter
and I have to lean the iPad.
I can't drive it.
Yeah, they shouldn't.
They shouldn't make it.
And my driving is not great to be.
I mean, if they're just going to have
the buttons overlaid on the display of the iPad, then OK.
If you've got all the buttons accessible to you
at your fingertips on a touchscreen,
yeah, otherwise, I'll see if they're just
going to make this a two-button control scheme.
That's a nightmare for a game like Final Fantasy.
Do you have any tech talk stories
that you want to go over, sir?
No, we've been so movie-centric.
I really didn't do a lot of digging and researching.
Really, our tech talk's probably going
to pick up here in about three weeks,
as we draw ever closer to the PS4, Xbox One, people
spending way too much money for a system
that probably won't work right for three months.
Did we make mention of the records
that were broken by Grand Theft Auto 5?
Like the seven new records that they've said
or something like that?
You can go over it.
I know we mentioned how much it made the day dropped,
but I think that's the only thing we talked about.
Yeah.
They've set several records and several categories.
Let me pull this up real quick.
Vamp for me here for a minute.
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whenever she wants to be there.
Okay, it's her world and you're just paying rent.
I found the list.
Okay, go ahead.
They currently hold seven records.
Which are?
Best selling action adventure video game in 24 hours.
Okay.
Best selling video game in 24 hours,
selling 11.21, it just says 11.21 units.
Probably million.
Yeah, I would have to thank you.
Fastest entertainment industry property
to gross $1 billion.
Fastest video game, obviously, to gross $1 billion.
Right.
Highest grossing video game in 24 hours.
Highest revenue generated by an entertainment product
in 24 hours, it managed 815.7 million in 24 hours.
Geez.
And the most viewed trailer for an action adventure video game.
Sir, we live in a world where you have trailers
for video games.
You know, world.
And it's a huge event when it drops, too,
depending on the property.
That's also become the UK's fastest selling game
of all time.
And also GTA 4's lifetime sales in the UK in just three weeks.
And has also overtaken the last of us,
if you've seen that title, the one that Ellen pages in.
Right.
To become the PlayStation 3's best selling digital title.
I saw the trailer for that at the VGA award
last year of how that was taken.
And it's pretty mind blowing.
I hope I got that right.
I hope that's the one that Ellen pages in.
Or is that the one she's suing over?
That may be the one she's suing over.
Because I know there's one she's in.
And then there's the one she's suing over
because they use her likeness.
Because it does look and sound just like her.
It's spot on her.
Cut her a check.
She'll be fine.
Our next guest is going to be Freak Mostly.
He is the actor in the movie Corks' Cattle Baron,
which is showing here.
OK.
I'm sorry.
We're not more prepared.
No, no, no, it's all right.
No problem, it's all right.
Don, would you like to go ahead and introduce our guest again
for us now that you're in your cell?
You got your headphones on.
All right.
Sorry.
We have the honor being with the being
grace with the presence of Freak Mostly.
He is one of the actors in the movie Corks' Cattle Baron,
which is shown here at the film fest this weekend.
Now, Freak, whatever work have you done before this?
I'm going to arrest me.
Now, do you want people to hear about it and get out?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I've been based out of Dallas for the past 10 years
as a professional actor and also a filmmaker myself.
Bart Wise is a mentor of mine.
He was my professor at UTA when I did film there.
OK.
And so that's how I met Bart.
But I've been in a couple films as of late
that have played Sundance, Upstream Color,
Ain't the Body Saints.
Oh, that one.
You're in that one?
Yeah, that one.
I said very, very recent film just came out.
Yeah, yeah.
But I was very, very small part in that.
But Upstream Color was the film that
just gave me a lot of exposures of late.
And an Eric, I've known for a couple of years
through some productions.
We did Clay Lifers' Wuss that Eric produced at a small part.
Eric still the director of this film.
Eric still the director of this film
at a small part in the film Wuss that he produced with Clay Liferad.
And that's how we got to know each other.
And then that's when I got to read a lot of Eric's plays.
And one of them was just aching for a translation
into a film.
And so that was Cork's Cattle Baron.
And so we decided to collaborate on that.
Is the play have the same title?
Yes.
OK, and I'm reading about it now.
Yeah.
The true unsolved story of a journalist named Danny
Kesselaro, did I get right?
Actually, that's his feature that's in progress right now.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, that's in a development.
OK, so tell me about Cork's Cattle Baron.
Cork's Cattle Baron is the second in Eric Steele's Midwest
trilogy, which is it.
They were based on basically one act plays
about traveling salesmen.
And so Cork's is the second film in the series.
And it's kind of an ode to David Mammott.
It's about salesmen.
And David Mammott doesn't like the salesman.
Yeah.
And so it's the closest thing I've come to doing, Mammott,
which I maybe jump with the chance.
Could you round that up to the nearest level?
And just say you've done it.
I wish I could.
I wish I could.
That would be amazing.
But what was short was wonderful.
It was Robert Longstreet, who's the venerable character
actor, who's been in a lot of indie films.
They went to Sundance, Eftian.
And he's been a take shelter in a lot of great films.
He basically runs the entire short as the loudmouth veteran
salesman opposite me, who's kind of the guy who's
wet behind the years and learning a few things or two.
And it all takes place at one stake restaurant dinner, just
the two of us at a table, like my dinner with Andre.
And that's the whole thing.
That's what I was thinking.
Well, it's not the one sheet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what it reminds me of.
Yeah.
So how long did it take you to film this?
I believe two days at the back of a Dunston steak house
in a closed-off room when we brought in some extras and shot
it out.
Outstanding.
How long is the film itself?
It's about 15 minutes.
All right.
It's going to show tonight.
It detects the showcase.
Yeah.
And it played last night as part of the Houston showcase.
So you made that trip today?
I didn't.
Oh, OK.
I just came today.
Just came today.
Oh, OK.
OK, I was going to say that Houston drives things.
Oh, yeah.
Am I in loss?
Look down there.
It's like, I love my in-laws with my horse.
Like, let's go.
I'm like, can you drive?
Don't make it in a year.
It's been a long time.
So is it making the rounds now?
I mean, where has it been before?
Where's it going from here?
Well, actually, this is kind of ending its run, actually.
It played at the Maryland Film Festival and Sidewalk
and the Hamptons.
Ooh.
That was a fun trip.
Oh, yeah.
And so we had a lot of good festival play for a while.
And then it actually went to the director's guild
of America screening in LA, where they actually did a screening
of the short and a lot of other shorts that kind of got picked up.
And the exposure that was huge at the DGA.
So that was kind of the pinnacle.
There was nothing wrong with that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
It was a really good exposure for Eric and the team.
So it's done really well.
But yeah, this is kind of itself very well.
Now you said this was the second of a trilogy, the Midwest trilogy.
Are there hopes that maybe put them together
into a larger feature or?
Well, what's interesting is that the very first one
was a short that he did back in like 2000.
It was 2005, 2006.
And then Cork's just another separate short.
But the third piece, which is actually a short film,
he blew it up into a feature on its own called Bob Burnett.
OK.
That's actually where Eric is at right now.
Eric is in the Hamptons because that feature is premiering,
which is why I'm the one with the badge and the helmet.
So I'm representing down here.
And he's in the Hamptons with the feature of that film.
So.
Well, there's nothing wrong with that though.
Oh, yeah.
Plus you get to be home and.
Oh, absolutely.
So it's good.
It's good to be here.
It's the things you have to keep running through my eyes.
I could be in the Hamptons.
Yeah, it could be in the Hamptons.
Yeah.
But it's been great.
It's been wonderful.
Just kind of hanging out.
The Texas Showcase starts tonight at nine.
Yeah.
Right here in the video lounge where we are broadcasting live,
getting ready for that as well.
Yeah.
What's next for you?
Just finished up my own second feature
link film.
So I'm submitting that to festival.
So fingers crossed, we'll see what happens.
Starring and directing or.
No, just writing directing.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, I don't like to be in my own stuff.
And that's always, and I'm glad you brought that up
because that's always an interesting conundrum
is actors who do or do not want to direct.
Yeah, absolutely.
Some actors like it.
Some can separate it.
Some drive them into madness.
You just, you prefer to keep those.
The world's completely separate.
I do, I mean, I don't mind acting.
If it's something small in one of my own films,
but for the most part, you know, I
like to have somebody else direct.
They coach the performance.
You do the work.
I'll just do the memories.
I'll just act.
I'm looking at this on a DVD page.
I'm like, my god, how many things do you
have in post production?
Oh, yeah.
I've been very lucky this year.
God, these really good films have been.
When do you sleep?
I don't.
I get them open after the text is show.
I'm going to sleep for God's sake.
We would say a lot of people involved in the show
this week are probably going to sleep for about three days
after this.
They deserve it.
They deserve it.
People are working their asses off here.
And it's been a great show.
Things have been going really well.
Have you had a chance to check anything else this week?
Actually, I've been busy all week,
but I managed to come in the day to see Leviathan, which
was awesome.
And then I just got out of soft in the head, which was fantastic.
And that was one of the award winners.
Yeah, absolutely.
This guy, Nathan Silver, who's based in New York,
I'm a big fan of his films, his films are fantastic.
And that's always a good thing as well.
Especially when you have this kind of a festival,
you get the chance to go see other things.
Absolutely.
You don't get stuck in, you mean I got
to do interviews for 19 hours or so?
The movie I want to see, you know, we actually got last night.
We got to go see the stones.
Oh, yeah.
They sung girls to her.
And that looked for a concert film.
It's 35 years old.
It looked amazing.
That's awesome.
And just getting to kind of take that in.
Well, it's going to be on on Blu-ray.
We actually watched it from the Blu-ray
in the 4K projection gorgeous.
That's great.
They shot it on 35.
So you don't have to.
It transferred amazingly well.
Right, closely.
It is called Corks' Cattle Baron.
It's going to air here in just a little over an hour.
No, wait a minute.
I did my math wrong, didn't I?
Because it starts at 9, so it's over two hours.
I'm on East Coast time.
Can I say that instead?
OK, you could do it like that.
I'll take that.
Yeah.
Frank, thanks for so much.
Stop it by the best.
I'd like to see you keep it posted on what's going on.
Do you have websites or anything you want to play?
Yeah, if you want to go to 5th column features.com.
Is that spelled out or with the five?
That's actually spelled out.
OK, 5th column features.
5th column features.
Yeah, column features.
That's the distribution company that
disrelease my last and my first feature
length film called Hold.
So look for it on there.
Is that going to be a theatrical release?
It had a limited in New York briefly,
but now it's just written down load online.
So we were just actually were talking about that last night
and how that's really become a thing.
And it's really helping a lot of smaller films get better
exposure when you have that on demand or Netflix and things
like that.
Yeah, it's only been out like a week online.
So feel free.
It's called Hold.
It's called Hold, H-O-L-D.
We'll write that down.
So we'll check that out.
Let me know what you think.
All right, thank you so much, sir.
All right, I'd have you.
Thank you so much.
Do you always hear the Clubhouse podcast?
We are live every Sunday night.
We are Dallas Video Fest 26 as the show rolls on.
So much going on.
Our next guest is Evan, who was the producer of Punk Jews.
He's going to be coming in and joining us
to talk about the film that just showed right now
at the Video Fest.
Correct?
Have a seat, sir.
Have a seat.
So it makes it look like I know what I'm doing over here.
Evan, welcome to the Clubhouse podcast, sir.
Thanks for having me.
So you just got done with the screening.
Just got done.
How did you go?
What fantastic.
Punk Jews is the name of it.
Tell our people what it's all about, sir.
Well, Punk Jews is a documentary film.
It follows an underground community
of artists, activists, and musicians in New York City
who are taking the Jewish identity
and expressing it in unconventional ways
while challenging stereotypes and breaking down bearings.
How many, is it a number of groups
or just a number of artists?
It follows six different individuals or groups
that are all expressing their Jewish identity
in some kind of unique way.
Whether it's a punk rock band or they're an activist
or an artist, or there's a street performance group, et cetera.
So there's a lot of the edge of your side in Jewish culture.
I'm very intrigued by this.
I am a musician and to see there's just
such a vast array of things that doesn't get seen.
And it sounds like from just from the couple of seconds
as you've had to talk about it, I'm sure you're probably
worn out talking about the film, but it's...
If you get worn out talking about your film and something's wrong.
That's about a point.
That's a very good point.
But to go somewhere and do something like this,
you obviously have a passion for what you're doing.
Tell me about some of the people that you interacted with
that entreat you the most.
Yeah, I mean, it's like, as a filmmaker and as a storyteller,
I'm really drawn to like the stories of like unsung heroes
and the ones that are really under the radar
outside the mainstream.
And so as far as the individuals in the film,
they were all met at a certain gathering
that's shown in the film called Cholent,
which brings together a whole mixture of people
and they just who are kind of on the margins of the community
and they come together and they have a good old time together.
Yeah, that's what it's all about.
Sharing their art and sharing themselves.
And is it...
I just lost my train of thought.
Would the faith at the center of it
or is that just what kind of puts them in common?
Right.
As far as the different characters,
I mean, they range between lots of different forms
of either faith or religious observance
or just culture, secular culture.
And they definitely run the gamut of for that.
People who have left the religious community,
people have come to the religious community,
people who are never particularly in the religious community,
people who created their own community.
And it's kind of that diversity and it's that idea
of not classifying everything,
not always having to reduce something
to the lowest common denominator.
It's not the answer that's so important.
Maybe it's the question that's more important
and the conversation and the understanding
that comes out of that.
Oh, I think so.
That has a lot to do with the characters
and the people in the film
and how they express themselves in ways
that you wouldn't normally see.
It's kind of open people up to that idea.
How long was the process for you?
From start to finish, it was about five years.
Oh, wow, okay.
We did all the fun racing through Kickstarter
and some fun racing events.
And that's, Kickstarter has become such an amazing thing.
That's, it's giving people the chance
to actually pursue their dreams
and to get their art out there.
Being an East Coast guy,
I think I hear a little bit of East Coast, didn't ya?
Yeah, I live in New York.
Okay, I'm from South Florida, so I know the accent.
Well, what brings you here?
The Dallas video fest.
So you just, the opportunity came by
and it was like, we want to show your film
and you said, yes, I want you to show my film.
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, actually, I just,
it just so happens that these,
that this date fell in between a date
that we just did in San Francisco on Thursday
and then Portland, Oregon on the 15th,
which is, I think Monday or Tuesday, Tuesday.
And this Dallas,
Dallas Festival happened to fall right in the middle.
So they called us, I was like, you know what,
it's perfect timing.
I was just gonna kind of like, you know,
take the slower way up north from San Francisco
and was like, you know what,
I'm gonna hop down the Dallas and we're gonna do this.
Outstanding.
Yeah, we're here.
So from here, it goes to Portland.
Where else have you been?
Where else are, is it gonna go?
Well, coming up after Portland,
it's gonna be in Bucharest, Romania.
Oh, wow, wow.
He's jamming in Bucharest.
I knew you were gonna say that.
That's an old comedy bed, I apologize.
And then we have our official DVD release in New York
on October 29th and the DVD has 30 minutes
of extra bonus segments.
People who are not in the film.
So it's not just bonus features
where you see like, you know, directors commentary,
more stories of people that you didn't have in.
It's like a second film.
So there's nothing, I like that.
Second film in a film.
Because a lot of times we watch documentaries
and we hear directors say, you know what,
there was always other people
but I got to interview and I think to put about the film.
Now you're saying, you know what?
Yeah, maybe I didn't get to the film.
I'm still gonna put you on the DVD.
Yeah, I mean.
And that's awesome.
We filmed with two all different people
and the film itself, the 60 minute film is six people.
And so the other six we feature
as standalone segments in the bonus sections on the DVD.
That's awesome.
So you're gonna get to over two hours worth of.
Just about.
Yeah.
So for you, now that you've got this thing going,
what's next for you?
Well, we're looking to develop the concept
and develop some of the characters
into other platforms, both online and for television.
And hoping that that, you know, will take off somehow.
Because the way the film is,
the way it's shown is that it's episodic.
It's segmented.
It's a bit of a different kind of format
than most films can actually.
And that's actually one reason why we haven't gotten
to certain festivals is because they don't get
like our format.
It's kind of like almost like in a news magazine format.
Like actually one of the reviews, one of the reviews we got
called it a concoction of 60 minutes
from the demented offspring of an MTV producer
in a Hasidic Mystic.
See, you get to that point, you go.
I wasn't sure if you're trying to fend me or not,
but I thought it was, I think that was the biggest
compliment I ever received.
That's about to say.
You get to a point you go.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, I'll take that.
Yeah, because it's 60 minutes and it's a different format.
It's a little bit different.
And therefore, you know, it also makes it adaptable
to other platforms as a result of that too.
Trying to get some technical tweaks done here.
We've actually turned our house speakers on it.
Well, I'll take care of it.
So I guess from what you're describing
and what I'm seeing, this to me sounds like something
that would be perfect for like an HBO documentary.
Because I'm a huge, we're both huge documentary fans.
So I think this would work well for somebody like that.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, we've been in touch
with certain people, but I think what we're really working
on is not necessarily to just put the film on television,
which would be awesome if someone wanted to do that like HBO.
But the idea of developing someone to the characters
into like a television series is kind of what we're working
on now.
Like Mishikoi, the punk rock bands, we're working
to hopefully develop that into a wider television
series that will show.
Anybody that you would target for that?
Would it be more suited for somebody like an HBO
or would be somebody that maybe like a fox would want to carry?
Yeah, I mean, it would be more,
well, the way we're developing it now,
I mean, it can go anyway.
Right, right, right.
We can switch gears easily.
Perfect worlds for you, though.
Depending on who's interested.
Perfect world is someone, you know,
wanted to show the film on television.
Second best perfect world is, or, you know,
a long parallel in addition is to develop
some of the characters into, you know,
more of an episodic television show,
documentary series television.
Like AMC maybe or like, yeah, it's not a bad idea.
I think AMC would be a great home for something like this.
And a duck dinosaur gets on TV.
No, that's exactly my point.
Put something of substance.
Yeah, and this sounds like there's
some great substance to this.
I would like to see this myself.
Yeah.
The, the doctor.
It's a good mixture of substance and shock value.
Oh, there you go.
I like that.
And cultural relevance.
And to me, that's the most important part of it.
The documentary is called Punk Jews.
I want to see this.
I do, too.
You got.
I read about this the other day.
And I'm thinking this could, it's like,
when I opened up the media guide, it's literally
where my media guide opened up was right to punk.
I'm like, what, what?
Those are two words I never thought I would,
then we'd go together in the same set.
Evan Kleinman is our guest.
Website Plus, Facebook Flugs.
Plug it away, my friend.
That's what we're here for.
You can find us on punkchoose.com.
We have all the screenings listed in there.
We also have a blog.
We also have a store that people can pick up t-shirts and buttons,
DVDs.
And we're on Facebook.com slash punkchoose.
Twitter is at punkchoose.
But we also have a Facebook group, which
is where people can post whatever they want.
Oh, wow.
Whatever they might be doing within that context,
have a place, have a space to live.
So you mentioned the DVD.
Are you just doing the pre-orders now?
Or can they get it now?
Because you said you had the big deal coming up,
I guess, what's next week if my dates are right?
So week after next.
Right.
After October 29, the DVDs will be available online.
OK, so can they pre-order them now?
I'll talk to my distributor and get that set up.
Jewishfilms.org, if they want to call them up and say
what's the DVD at?
Get the pre-orders in now.
So that way, support this film.
I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Chad said he's looking forward to seeing this.
You've definitely got me by interest, Pete.
Evan, thank you so much for your time.
We appreciate it.
Go see this movie.
Thank you very much.
All right.
I'm going to make some technical adjustments
said so if you'll vote for me for just a minute.
Can you do some plugs for me?
I think you so much, Evan, for coming on.
Appreciate it.
Just a mile a minute here, aren't we, John?
Well, at least expect it by birthday.
Nothing less than a total meltdown, at least a partial one.
Yeah, well, it's better than getting a Will Farrell DVD in it.
Please.
That's what you got last year in this one year go today.
Yeah, this is true.
But I do not think you guys were those birthday gifts.
It's very cool, you guys.
So at least we got something that you can fit cleanly
and evenly on your desk.
So jeez.
But so with this festival, though, I would have to say,
this has been one credible experience right now.
I mean, I don't know how many films I've probably
seen in the last four or five days, probably close to,
I'd probably say about 15 movies, probably in the last five days.
God, Lee, John.
But some are short, some are maybe half hour and stuff,
but there's such an array and there's so much stuff
that you want to see at this festival here
that that looks interesting.
That looks interesting.
And the sad part is sometimes is that there's
two that you want to see, but they're at the same time.
Yeah, but that's in a way, you know, bad, but still good things.
So you know, better to have too much to watch.
Yeah, exactly.
But I've seen everything from like, you know,
mother nature to political, to Kennedy, to.
But that's also the genius of a festival like this because it's
bringing awareness to films that maybe you wouldn't get otherwise.
Exactly.
Like these people, you know, let's get the word out
about these great films because there's some incredible stuff
I've seen that, you know, let's get it out so the people
can see this incredible stuff.
And it's not like it's all, all the films are in one vein.
You know, these films are, are they cross genre barriers?
They cross subject matter barriers.
It's a great, just well-rounded festival.
Well, people have listened to the last two days.
The stuff I've talked about, what happened?
I've talked about, you know, that is, and that's a good thing.
It's a very, very good thing.
And again, Don's been working his butt off.
Oh, I've been running around the show.
But it's been incredible experiences.
We got to think Killy Kitchens, again, the Alamo,
everybody, the Dallas video festival for us.
And they've been amazingly accommodating for us,
you know, getting us access to some of these filmmakers
like we've had for the last two nights.
It's kind of the first time in this show
that we've really worked out.
We're working a lot more free form
than I think we ever have in this show.
Well, you know, once a month we do wrestling intensive,
let's do movie intensively.
We may need to.
We can take a look at that.
We're doing it tonight, you know, especially we got it.
We got two.
We got one sport wrapping itself up.
So, oh, my pirates.
Yeah, you know, my braids are out too.
So I just, I just want the Dodgers to win the whole thing.
So I don't feel bad about losing the Misty Dodgers.
I don't want to hear nothing from me.
They want to be able to tell you what you need.
I don't know.
I'm not saying I'm just saying.
Incredible experience.
Well, sir, why we got a little bit of a downtime here
is we are moving forward with our Sunday night show.
Would you like to go ahead and go down your list?
Oh gosh.
Should I have it written down?
No, I don't have a written down.
I thought you had it written down.
I've got the site pulled up
but I don't have it any kind of order.
This is Dallas Video Fest 26.
This is the 26th year of this film festival.
A lot, I mean, if you saw the media guide for this thing,
it's, you know, it's 100 pages if it's nothing.
You know, there's a lot of films that we're screening
and Chad and I were talking the other day about films
that have been filmed, films that have been filmed,
in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
If you just want to just highlight something
to talk about them, you don't have to put them in any order.
Okay.
Well, let's see.
Well, for starters, if we start at the earliest part
of this list, if we just want to go chronologically.
Sure.
Benji from 1974.
Benji was filmed in Dallas.
Apparently so.
But not Benji come home because that was a different movie.
No.
Okay.
I've done the 80s.
Wasn't Benji come home in the 80s?
Probably, okay.
I don't know how long that series ran.
The bulk of these are movies that you're either going
to recognize as being 80s films because or 90s films.
Of course, Bonnie and Clyde.
Right.
A little farther back in 1967.
Phantom of the Paradise.
That's not the kiss movie.
No, no, no.
That's the part.
That's the one where Paul Williams was basically
a rockable Phantom of the Opera.
Oh, yeah.
Did you ever watch that documentary?
Paul Williams still alive?
No, very good.
Logan's run.
Really?
That's what it says.
I remember when I watched that, I was probably seven or eight.
I went to window that come out, 79.
76.
So I was probably seven or eight when I watched it on TV.
And I remember going, this is just weird.
Well, it's like watching THX1138.
It's a fair point.
The one that probably a lot of people want to forget.
There he does Dallas from 1983 Silkwood.
We got a couple of really big ones, like bam, bam, bam.
I'll straight back.
Yes, what?
Tender mercies.
OK.
Places in the heart.
Solid field.
And I'm always trying to point this out that my sister and I
actually went to the open casting call
that filmed back when they were there.
Places in the heart.
They had a big open casting on a walk to Hatchee.
We drove out to walk.
This is a second walk to Hatchee Story tonight.
Yeah, it is, isn't it?
And it was just wall-to-wall people.
So we just turned right back around, got in the car and left.
Like, I'm not sitting through this.
The trip to Bountiful from 1985, where I want to say.
There's a trip to Bountiful.
No, there's the trip to Bountiful.
OK.
And what was your name?
It's the Stapleton that wasn't on All in the Family.
It's Gina Maureen.
Maureen was on All in the Family.
OK, so it was Jean Stapleton.
I could be wrong on that.
I think you may be.
Probably.
True Stories from 86.
Wasn't that the talking heads?
Yes, OK.
Then we get to the one that we really want to talk about
from 1987, Robocop, which the remakes coming out in February.
You're on board.
That surprises me that you're on board with this Robocop remake.
Because I know how you are with certain films.
And this isn't a slim.
This is just truth.
There are certain films that I don't think I don't care if Prince
wrote, produced, and started it.
You still would be out.
And Robocop, to me, was one of those.
You know, Verhoeven did a great job on that film.
Well, Prince wrote, produced, and started in Graffiti,
Bridge.
It's a film with that film.
But I'm talking about from a reboot standpoint.
Right.
And you told me you were completely on board with this trailer.
It looked good.
It's just I was, I was expect, maybe it was because I was expecting
the worst.
Russ says Benji was filmed in Denton.
Denton?
Really?
Well, again, I've probably seen Dallas Fort Worth area, maybe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because the place in the heart was filmed in Waxhatchee.
I remember you didn't like her.
You didn't really like her.
Shut up.
I remember whenever my sister was working downtown in 86, 87
at the Tramwell Crow building.
And she said she was seeing them filming Robocop the whole time
she was working downtown.
Because they doubled Dallas City Hall for Detroit City Hall.
And the building right across the street
from where she was working doubled as the police station.
OK, they show that where it's like that three, the towers
are like asymmetrically built next to each other.
Does it look to you though that they've kind of combined Robocop one
and two into this?
Yeah, it does.
Because that was kind of the thing I got when I saw the trailer.
Or at least ideas from both of the original scripts
made out of it.
Fair enough, fair, go ahead, go ahead.
Let's see, talk radio.
Begozion.
Begozion, yes, I remember that.
I believe the criterion did a.
I think they did.
Did a version of that.
Born on the 4th of July.
There was some in Dallas at Richland College, actually.
OK.
My aunt was attending Richland College.
She bumped right into Tom Cruise.
I actually saw that by myself in the theater.
The one filmed in our very fair Berg problem, child in 1990
was filmed all over.
It was filmed in Mesquite, yes.
And we admit that.
I don't know what that says about us as people.
My other aunt saw John Ritter walking across the street
from the post office in downtown Mesquite a couple of times
that was doubling for the adoption building, which
warranted a sequel for some reason.
A subject that's on everyone's mind this year, especially,
from 1991 JFK.
A movie I also saw on a theater by myself on Christmas night,
because my cousin ditched me for a party.
Another one from 1991 that it was obviously
filled and didn't necessary roughness.
Yeah, I liked that movie.
I do too.
I liked it too.
I thought it was a good one.
Would you concern that as a guilty pleasure movie?
No, I really don't.
One of my favorite lines in that film.
Tell me he gets younger as he gets closer.
That ends.
I was taught to respect my elders.
I'm not that old.
Put Sinbad in a movie.
I just love Loja's speech in the locker room.
Then we really can't repeat.
I would tear a ripoff.
Yeah.
Now let us pray.
Do we hear a new coach?
And again, Sinbad and Scott Bacchewer,
that reeks of guilt, that stinks of guilty pleasure.
That's a big bucket of win.
For both of them.
Yeah.
Did they film that at University of North Texas, correct?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
And back when there wasn't a Texas State University,
and there is now, no, weird how that works out.
It only took him 20 years to actually do it.
Then of course, Barney and Friends is filmed here.
Walker, Texas.
Selena Gomez got her start on Barney and Friends.
Any given Sunday?
That's what they said.
They filmed part of that here at the whole thing.
They actually haven't acknowledged
that Batman and Robin was filmed in Dallas.
I'm like, do we have to acknowledge that film?
I don't either.
I don't either.
I didn't feel bad that I rented it from Blockbuster,
and I accidentally hit record instead of play.
So there's like a 10-second space on it.
I didn't feel bad about that.
You're doing it.
And probably improved the film.
You were doing everybody a public service.
Then of course, Prison Break was filmed here.
The short lived, the good guys was here.
Well, they didn't do every, I think they only
did the first season.
The first one or two seasons.
Then they moved season two without a rock wall, which
is on the, that you call it, the Northeast side
of the Metriplex.
This is all around the FW.
They did a lot of area there.
Right.
But we are.
Do you want to go ahead?
Yeah, sure, yeah.
Please don't introduce our guests.
We have Kristen Reeves and Michael Morse.
They are filmmakers who are doing the SprintML
programs right now on the, which is actually
airing right now into little video room in the back there.
In the video part of the video lounge.
The video lounge, exactly.
Not the video slash lounge.
Welcome both of you.
You have to talk right into that thing because it's one of those.
Hi there.
So you've actually come to join us
and you got what's going on right now in the other room.
That's, wow, I feel great.
Tell us about what's going on.
Well, right now there's a, well, we've
been showing programs of experimental film all weekend.
And earlier in the week, Kristen had her film
show in a program just earlier that was at 4.30.
She made a film called White Coat Phenomenon,
which I'll tell you about in a minute.
OK, there's another screening going on right now,
which we're going to jump back in and do a Q&A here in a minute.
Oh, excellent.
Yeah, so, but things are good.
So I'll let Kristen tell you a little bit about her film.
Yeah, thanks.
I have a piece that's called The White Coat Phenomenon.
It's a video built from found footage.
The video content comes from the University of Florida's
medical archive.
Hey, University of Florida.
You have his attention.
I'm in.
And then the audio is the first 10 questions
of this sexual IQ test that I found at a used record store.
It's a 100 questionnaire on how to identify your sexual IQ
that you could take at home.
And so I took the first 10 questions of that
and paired it up with some footage
that I found on how to give examinations that
had some strange points of sensuality.
There are some visible wedding rings in the examination room
and that kind of thing.
So I thought it was pretty interesting to pair those two up.
So you found this footage.
And then you found the record of a questionnaire.
Right.
I'm looking through this in my head.
I'm like, this is working, but it just
were these things that you sought out
or did they just kind of fall in your lap
and you went, hey, this will work together.
Right, exactly.
I was researching another project when I basically,
I systematically went through the entire University
of Florida as a VHS collection in their medical facility
and for another project.
And then I found this series.
And I thought, oh my god, I have to do something with this.
This is really kind of strange and beautiful and bizarre.
But I didn't know exactly what and how
to do wrangle it into something.
And then I was researching another project
where I decided the parameters for that project
I would only use physical media, film and records, physical records.
And so I was going to use record sales.
And I found the album called The Sexual IQ Test.
And as soon as I saw it, I thought, here it is.
This is going to be the answer for that video.
So you said you were given access to the University of Florida VHS
library.
How much footage did you have to go through?
I went through a lot.
They probably thought it was pretty weird because I don't know.
It's Gainesville.
It's OK.
Yeah.
It was Tallahassee.
We'd have a problem.
But Gainesville, you're good.
Yeah, it was the over a spring break.
And so I would, I did what I would check out
about 20 to 25 VHS's every couple days.
And mostly I would watch them in fast forward and kind of go
and see you happen.
In that double time, OK, moving on, moving on, moving on.
Exactly.
And then I found this.
So were you a student at Florida?
Yes, I was.
I was a graduate student.
She wins every award.
Rest of the weekend.
Don't care what it is.
No bias here at all for you, huh?
I'm checking.
I'm checking.
I'm going to check straight ticket right there.
Been a fan since I was 10.
When you live in Florida, you have to have your allegiance
very, very young.
He wears it, honestly.
Yes, I do.
Well, not literally.
And a shirt, man, his hat, and whatever else he can bust.
True.
So you took a spring break and you just went through footage
and went through footage.
And at a certain point, did you just
like, what am I looking for?
Did you know what you were looking for at the time?
Well, I was looking for another project.
And honest, I wasn't quite sure.
I think for me as an artist, a lot of what I do
is I do a lot of looking.
And I set up a kind of a procedure
that I try to do very thoroughly.
And in this case, it involved going,
oh, I'll just go through every single VHS
and see what it is that I can find.
But I was looking, yeah, part of what
drove me to start looking in this medical archive
is I was critical of the institutions,
manufacturing of research subjects.
And so I didn't want to manufacture
my own research subjects as artists
and to be critical of that by shooting
other people doing things.
And so I just went to the source
and started just utilizing that space.
So, yeah, I wasn't quite sure what I'm looking for.
But then, for example, now that I made this piece,
I'm now more interested in where sexuality
and the clinic cross those paths.
So now I am actively looking for more material
and information that deals with sexuality within the clinic.
So the piece you're showing tonight, how long is it?
It's three minutes.
It's very short.
So you took just the first 10 questions,
mashed them up with the footage you have.
What are you working on anything to follow up with that?
Are you just kind of, I still want to stay in this vein,
but I kind of want to go a different direction with it.
Well, I found a film recently called
Sex Elogical, a conversation that was produced at Berkeley.
And they had a sexual studies department, apparently.
But I found it on eBay.
So what I do is I go through eBay a lot.
And yeah, I found this 16 millimeter film
and I'm currently trying to figure out
what it is that I'm going to do with that.
But I'm not quite sure.
But you're still working with current footage,
not maybe going, are you considering maybe doing your own
kind of studies where you would create your own?
Or do you feel like your wheelhouse is more
and stuff that's already out there
that maybe hasn't been seen?
Right now I'm just, I'm really focusing
on the medical archive.
A lot of that too is also in the history of the clinic.
The answers on what it is to be human being
are diagnosed through medical media.
They ask the questions to the media itself.
And so I started really thinking about,
well, let me like, I'm examining the examiners
through their media to find, yeah,
these maybe corrections or oddities that I want to showcase.
So those are the current projects that I'm not opposed
to shooting new things that right now that's something
I want to follow through on.
It's kind of more, the found footage
is more kind of consumed you right now.
Exactly.
OK.
Is there a website you want to plug anything like that?
I have a website called the Reeves machine.
Reeves machine.
R-E-E-V-E-S.
OK.
So, and yeah, you can find, I do all sorts of work, film,
video, 2D installation performance art sort of stuff, so.
All right, well, let's go to the other side of the table.
You can see you see it's a right ear,
because there might be stuff you want to answer to.
Michael Morris, who's also got a piece
that's going to show tonight, am I correct?
I'm actually one of the programmers of the festival.
OK.
Fair enough.
I have had work in the festival before
and had a piece in the expanded cinema program
that was on the Omni, but primarily.
Which we saw last weekend.
Right.
We were actually out there for it.
Had a great time.
Beautiful night.
Couldn't have been more perfect conditions for that thing.
Yeah, it was fantastic.
For sure.
And, but my primary role at the festival
has been putting together the program of experimental films
along with Carolyn Sorter, who is my co-programmer.
Yeah.
So, we've had a lot of great programs already.
How many submissions this year?
Ooh, that's a really good question.
We get works from a lot of different places.
So, through an open call, through invitations,
and then we also have distributors
that contact us with work.
So, oh, man, you might have to ask
Raquel about what the total submissions were.
We went through a lot of work.
So, how much actual programming time
during the festival do you use?
We, well, for the experimental portion of the program,
we had about six or seven blocks,
most of which were about 90 minutes.
So, I'm not terribly good at math right up the top of my head.
But we had a lot of...
I went to public school, I can't help you there.
But we had a lot of work this year.
And it was really nice to be able to have that much time
because we really tried to focus on a variety
of different durations of work.
So, there was a lot of long form work that we showed this year.
OK.
So, a lot of works that have a difficult time getting
program that are 30 to 45 minutes long.
I was very interested in programming those
because often, I make works that are in that sort of awkward time
length that take, you know, between 15 and minutes
and half an hour, you know, to sort of make their point.
And in the experimental film world,
sometimes it's pretty difficult to get those works programmed.
And while...
Because those are longer than your normal.
And it does mean that there's a little bit...
I mean, experimental film can tend to be a little bit hard
in terms of the aesthetic.
So, sustaining attention for that amount of time
can be kind of tricky also.
But we tried to put together a really challenging program
this year.
And audiences have been responding really positively, so...
Well, and to me, I like that about experimental film
is you can do that kind of stick and move style
where it's like, this is what I'm trying to say.
And I'm not going to take up more of your time
than I have to.
This is what I'm saying.
And this is how I'm saying it.
And I don't know that we get enough of that.
You know, we talk about...
You have some films we saw, and this is...
I'm going to completely go the opposite of the spectrum.
I'm going to apologize ahead of time.
But I have a thing called the Stargate Theory.
That Stargate would have been 20 times better
if it was a half an hour longer.
Ooh, okay.
With the experimental film, it's the exact opposite of that.
We can say it and we can stick and we can move.
And sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.
And that's okay.
Because it's exactly what it says it is.
It's experimental.
So what I choose to see, maybe, you know,
Kristen's wasn't my vision,
but I can see how you went there.
Yeah, you know, that's, to me, that's the genius of it.
Well, the thing that's great about experimental works
is they tend to define their own aesthetic.
So if you can say what you need to say
and it matches the integrity of the piece
and you can do it in three minutes,
then that's fantastic.
And, you know, it may take you five hours to get to your point.
And, you know, the audience,
maybe having a hard time with the party,
maybe part of the point.
Yeah, yeah, you know what?
I can see that, absolutely.
So we try to try to make allowances for all of those forms.
And so you're getting ready to go do a Q&A
over all of the experimental?
Or is it, you know, Kristen, are you doing your own Q&A?
I had a Q&A after the 430 program
and but this other program's finishing up
and each program typically gets a Q&A with filmmakers.
Oh, okay, actually, this is a program
called the Rewards and Limitations of Observation,
which includes works by artists like Olivia Chumo
or Sam Esterton and Cam Archer,
a few other awesome filmmakers.
So, and a lot of those works are available online,
so I definitely encourage people to check them out.
So the standard question,
I'm sure you got to ask 100 times.
Have you gotten to see anything else
that you really enjoyed this weekend?
Seen a lot of great work this weekend.
Anything that sticks out to you just?
Well, I was really, really enthusiastic
about Noise Fold and Trio Cosas performance on Thursday,
which it's difficult to summarize what that was.
They called the Peace Autopoietic Theater.
Oh, okay.
It was a, well, hopefully not to speak too glibly,
but it's a live, generative audio
and visual synthesis work.
I believe we, there wasn't that discussed
at the media event last weekend a little bit.
Yes.
Where it was on the screen,
but the artist was there.
Right.
And there was a sync up
and then there was art going on at the same time.
Yeah, I did hear about that.
They've written their own software
so that the movements of their bodies
generates and manipulates the imagery,
but then the audio of their collaborators, Trio Cosas,
who are a recorder trio from Germany,
were also adding to the visual
and to the sonic feedback in the space.
That's kind of cool.
That's interesting.
I love technology.
So we had this really interesting combination
of like Renaissance era recorder music,
the instruments that were hundreds of years old
with the bleeding edge of technology.
So.
All right.
Anything you want to plug while you're here?
That's what we're here for.
We are not a frame of shameless plugs.
Trust me.
Check out Kristen Reeves' work online.
She mentioned the website earlier.
Yeah, Reeves' machine.
And check out.
Is it the Reeves' machine or just Reeves' machine?
I just Reeves' machine.
I want to make sure because I thought you said the earlier
and I want to make sure we were clear.
And check out the look back at the video program
for all the experimental programs.
If you didn't get to see the experimental programs,
it's OK.
You can probably research a lot of the artists online
and find some of their work floating around out there.
So I encourage you to do that.
Michael Morris, Kristen Reeves, thank you guys so much
for stopping by.
We got you guys.
We got you.
Just cavalcade the stars tonight.
Enjoy the rest of the evening.
You as well.
Thank you.
Take care, guys.
You always hear the Clubhouse podcast live every Sunday night,
seven Eastern four Pacific.
Next week, we're back in studio.
And then the week out of that, we're out of studio again
because we're going to be in Fox and Halm for WWE Hell and Us Out.
Good Lord.
We're going to need a vacation.
We've done, yeah.
I think this may be the busiest road show month we've ever had.
Oh, by a long shot.
Nothing wrong with that.
I mean, not at all.
It was around the air.
I'm good.
Don has left the table.
He's going to, I believe we're going to have another special guest
as time rolls on.
We were hoping to catch City of Hate tonight.
I don't think that's going to happen.
But I've been assured that we will be able to watch it very,
very soon.
OK, good.
City of Hate is a film about the events surrounding
the assassination of JFK.
And speaking of that, in theaters right now
is a film called Parkland, which is more of a, it's not a documentary.
It's fictionalized, I guess you could call it that.
I mean, it's based on actual facts.
But all star cast Don and I wouldn't
saw it highly recommend that film.
As we are just a little over a month away from the 50th anniversary
of the events that took place in Deli Plaza in downtown Dallas,
that's hard to believe.
Well, you were alive.
No, I wasn't.
Stop it.
You are the Ruby sessions of your generations.
No, no, no, Ruby sessions is the Ruby sessions of our generation.
And a bunch of question marks.
All right, do you want to go back to what we were talking about before?
Do you still have that screen available to you?
Oh, is that the list of films?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we kind of started jumping around a little
because I was just trying to get them all crammed in.
Well, Ruby, of course.
And I was correct to say, IELO was played Ruby in that.
Did he?
Yes, yes.
Very, very, very limp.
We actually had it when I went to the movie theater in high school.
We did carry it, but it was very limited release that film.
Was a wide release there?
A lot of people like, well, take it where you are.
Yeah, I know, I know.
Let's see.
Movie called Hexed, it came out in 93.
I'm trying to remember this one.
I, the name sounds familiar.
Was that Josh Burrow?
No, I'm sorry, that was Jonah Hex, never one.
Completely different.
Blank check from 94.
Then I had the kid from growing pains in it.
The greatness of Balorocket from 90s.
Austin, that's what to put the, I just lost their name.
The Wilson Brothers, yeah.
The Apostle.
I heard very good things about that have not seen it.
Was that Robert Jubal?
Yes.
Boba Jubal.
The X-Files fight the future.
That was filmed here?
Part of it.
Really?
Boys don't cry in 99.
That was the first Oscar for her.
We had our own little personal brush with this from 99.
Universal soldier, the return.
No soldier.
From 2000, Dr. T and the women, I know that got a lot of media coverage here.
When they announced it.
I know that was Richard Gear, which was Dr. T and the women.
Yeah, I've been part of that was filmed at one of our local malls, North Park Mall.
Uh-huh.
Let's see.
Jimmy Neutron was animated here.
I thought it was done in Austin.
This is animated in Dallas.
I've heard of the show Stone had a buddy that worked on that.
Uh-2002 is the rookie?
Oh, yeah, with, um-
That Dennis Quaid?
There was the CIA from the rookie, wasn't there?
No, it's a Dennis Quaid one.
No, that one you're thinking of, um-
That rookie was the recruit, yeah, with Pacino and Colin wasn't-
Was it kind of Reeves and the rookie then?
No, I'm thinking something else.
No, I think something else.
My mind's applied.
There's rookie of the year.
Really, different movie.
Uh-serving Sarah.
Heard good things about it.
Never saw.
I heard bad things about it.
Really?
Yeah.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
That's a free bird, which is going to be coming out soon.
And Tree of Life.
Uh-uh.
Chair Smellik.
Yes.
And of course, the Dallas series, respectively, the 70s and the-the-the recent one.
The-and the newer version doing very well.
I believe they got the third season.
I'm not mistaken.
I'm not sure.
Let me see.
Because it's just-because it just says 2012.
Well, there's been two seasons because they rode around the-the death of Hagman, right?
We are live at Dallas Video Fest 26 having a great time.
Second night in a row, Don's-Don is actually now paying rent because he lives here.
Exactly.
It is-again, it is Don's birthday, so sir, could you say it was a successful birthday
for you?
What did I tell you about three months ago, what I wanted to do in my birthday?
Um, can we say that on the show?
Yeah.
Uh-uh.
The family-friendly version.
I didn't tell everybody.
You said I wanted to be on the show again.
It's a tradition, as on my birthday last year, and I wanted to be here tonight.
I'm always here for the Empire.
Well, because we are your one-stop shopper, all things sports and entertainment.
This has been such a fun weekend, literally.
You know, I think it's worked, but seeing some great films and meeting all these incredible,
people were getting on the show.
I mean, what-what more could he ask for?
I mean, incredible time.
I'm having fun.
He would run around like a, you know, crazy, try to get her beyond here, but still-
And you're doing a great job, sir.
Let's go over some NFL scores because we are your one-stop shopper, all things sports and entertainment.
Earlier today, the Bearspe-
I'm sorry, that was Thursday night.
It's the Bearspeet, the Giants.
The Bears-
I mean, the Bears are now four and two.
The Giants are now 0 and 6, sir.
49ers over the Cardinals, 32 to 20.
The Bengals edge out the bills.
They are now four and two.
The Broncos, all over Jacksonville, but they did not cover the spreads, sir.
The biggest spread in the history of the NFL that at one point was 28 points.
But the Broncos, when 35 to 19, the Broncos are now 6 and 0.
And are they the only undefeated?
No, the Chiefs.
There's two undefeateds left.
The Lions, all over the Cleveland Browns, 31 to 17.
The Eagles beat my Buccaneers, 31 to 20.
The Chiefs.
This game was seven to seven deep into the third quarter, but the Chiefs win it with 21 unanswered points.
I'm sorry, 22.
24-7 is your final on that.
Don Steelers finally win a game.
God bless them.
They are now one and four as they beat the horrible New York Jets.
19 to six.
The Patriots edge out the Saints, 30 to 27.
The Packers, over the Ravens, 19 to 17.
The Seahawks beat the Titans, 20 to 13.
The Rams, 38 to 13.
The Rams beat the Texans like a drum today.
The Rams.
What was the score again?
38 to 13, sir.
And the Panthers over the Vikings, 35 to 10.
Tomorrow night, Indianapolis at San Diego.
That is going to be a great game.
Next week.
Your Thursday night game.
Seahawks at Cardinals.
That should be an excellent matchup.
Bill's Dolphins.
Cowboys Eagles.
So you're going to have back-to-back divisional games as the Cowboys are playing the Redskins right now.
They are just now getting underway.
Buccaneers at the Falcons.
Chargers of the Jaguars.
Patriots at the JETS.
Choke, choke, choke.
Bengals will be at the Lions.
The Rams are going to be at Carolina.
Oh God.
Bears at the Redskins.
49ers at the Titans.
Texans, chiefs.
Why is Houston struggling like they are?
I don't get it.
They should be better than this.
The Browns will be at the Peacars.
Ravens, Steelers.
But Don gets the Ravens at home next week.
So Broncos, Colts, and your Monday night game next week.
Vikings at the Chines.
Break out the no-dos.
My goodness.
When are we going to learn?
When has my name in football going to learn?
When?
They're not.
Ugh.
You always remember the Clubhouse Podcast.
We are live every Sunday night.
Seven Eastern for Pacific.
Next week, we will be back in studio.
Back in the friendly confines.
And then the week after that,
Fox and Hound, Richardson, Texas.
Then it all starts again.
It's just, this has been a whirlwind month for us.
Probably the biggest month we've had on this show in a long time.
The months are already flying by.
We're already halfway through it.
That we are, sir.
You had your big birthday last weekend?
Well, I wouldn't call it a big birthday.
That's, that's, that's, that's going to be next year.
What's 60?
You serve it up.
You serve it up.
I'm going to hit on the park.
I'm just letting you know.
I had a dead comes folding steel chair right now.
Other NFL headlines.
Next year,
we're going to have three games at Wembley Stadium instead of one.
Why?
Hosted, one hosted by Jacksonville as, as Bob Gavoyne said,
the Bob and Tom show.
They're going to go over there so they can see their new stadium.
Atlanta is going to host the game over there.
And Oakland is going to host the game over there next year.
I don't, here's my thing.
I know Gidel wants to make this a worldwide game.
I get that.
But you, you're going to have to have separate leagues.
And we all know how NFL Europe happened before.
It was a neat idea, but it just never felt it's footing.
You're going to have to eat every team, both the teams that plays over there
and the teams that they play over here are going to have eight by weeks.
Because you can't just travel and then come back and then play another game.
No.
But the league is considering adding two more wild card teams to the playoffs.
That wouldn't mean 14 teams or 44% of the league would make the playoffs.
Something about that doesn't seem quite right.
That doesn't even seem feasible.
It's like, who are you, the NBA?
That's just watering things down too much.
Now speaking of Don's beloved Steelers, did you read this story this week
where Mike Thomas has banned all games in the locker room, ping pong, pool, whatever.
Really?
And they won.
Got to keep them focused.
They won.
They won.
Does he make them turn in their digital portable devices at the door?
Well, you know, at the American Airlines Center,
all of their gaming systems in the locker rooms is all on a timer.
And when it's time to play, the coach flips a switch and it turns all of them off.
That's a thing.
That's like a daycare center.
In some cases, you might not be real far off, sir.
Probably right.
That's funny.
And then you have the story, date like Dallas, Deon Sanders gets into an altercation
with a faculty member and is fired from the school he co-founded because of it.
It's called the Prime Academy.
Oh, no.
What is wrong with this man?
I'm waiting for it.
How much time do you have?
I'm waiting for the silver and gold drop.
Oh, if I had it, I would.
Silver and gold.
As much as you're going to get for me.
That may have been too much.
But, sir, we're wrapping up week six in the NFL.
We're almost halfway done.
We're almost halfway done with the season.
It seemed like it just started.
But that's the way the NFL is every year.
Don is off getting us some more guests as we're getting close to time.
But if Don is getting the guest, I think he's about to get for us.
Big guest.
Okay.
Very big guest.
And I guess I am very, very much looking forward to talking to.
You can check out the Dallas Video Fest website.
Check them out.
Because they're going to give you all the updates you need to know.
Because if you missed it, it's not like they're not going to do one next year.
Make your plans now, man.
Because I'm telling you, and I said this before, and I said,
I'm going to say this again.
The media guide on this thing.
I got magazines that aren't this thing.
You know what I mean?
This is crazy.
Like, when I saw it, I thought it was like a where to go guide book
for in and around Richardson, Plano, and Dallas.
And when you said that, you're absolutely right.
This is not just the Alamo.
There were multiple places.
They're showing things here, right here, in the video lounge, where we are.
You know, and a lot of these had Q&A's with the filmmakers after the film.
We saw the Rolling Stones thing last night and had the director of that.
And there was a director and two of the cameraman, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes.
And a great session with them got out of their kind of late.
Definitely got out of their little lights.
But it was totally worth it.
We were kind of dragging a little bit.
Very much enjoyed that.
You can't go wrong.
I mean, there's literally something for everybody here.
Yeah, every kind of taste.
I mean, you name it.
All the bases are covered.
I saw just as I was flipping through.
I saw an animated short called a Game Boy's life.
About a Game Boy.
Real life.
Yeah.
Saw it in there.
Flip through.
This, I got to see.
Yeah.
No, it's in there.
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Charlotte Parker on Pinterest, because we're morally obligated to say that.
She sent me a text earlier.
And I haven't had a chance to look at it.
She has to go stay here for a Texas today.
I'll be going to the State Fair of Texas on Saturday.
I'm excited about that.
Are you coming with me?
I'm going to try to.
That's for sure.
Because we're going to make a day of it.
Because I have not been to the fair since I was in high school.
And I'm just going to show you the text she sent me.
Charlotte for you to send that in the middle of the show.
It's wrong.
Why does she do things like this?
But she was carried around the fair all day in a wagon.
And I don't mean like a covered wagon.
I mean like a red, red was it.
Was it the red with it called red wagon?
Radio flyer.
Radio flyer.
I was saying a red rider BB gun.
Totally different.
But we're getting close to that time.
We're going to watch that again.
Yeah.
Even though we have yet to do the sand lot.
Yeah.
Well, and that's another thing I was going to talk about.
Get ready because coming soon, we're going to be doing another side show.
Because we don't have to we have too much free time.
Apparently side show being the very appropriate term.
But we are going to be doing another side show that's going to be an iTunes exclusive.
Or as we like to call it an iTunes exclusive.
Wow.
That one was big.
Where we are going to be doing commentary tracks on some of our favorite films.
But not like a mystery science theater 3000 kind of a thing.
But it's going to be more of just us talking about the films as we watch them.
Right.
Which I think is kind of a little bit different.
It's more of a true commentary track.
Speaking of commentary tracks and mystery science theater 3000 coming up at the Alamo.
Two weeks from tonight.
Because it is October.
If you enjoy John Carpenter's Halloween.
And I do.
I know you and so does Charlotte.
Master pancakes going to be in town to do their take on John Carpenter's Halloween.
And if you just want to watch the film, they'll be showing that Halloween night right here.
Just probably what we say 200 yards from where we are right now.
The Alamo Draft House cinema.
And if you have never been to the Alamo Draft House cinema.
Get there.
It's.
It's a phenomenon.
I mean, that's the only way I can say it.
It's a phenomenon.
Beautiful place.
Get there early because there are custom pre shows for the movie you are seeing.
We learned this week that apparently Pocahontas invented barbecue.
We were not aware of that.
And so we saw that at the Alamo.
Well, Pocahontas and John Smith, together at Vanderbarn.
The food is very, very good.
You can actually order a bottomless bowl of popcorn.
And the bowl that brings pretty dark on beer.
Yeah.
And like an extra 50 cents.
You can get some Parmesan garlic dependent, which is amazing.
It's like the size of a mixing bowl for a cake bar.
You can order a royal with cheese because I've done it.
Yes, you have.
They have adult milkshakes.
A ton of beers on tap.
And I mean, a ton.
That's one of the things they pride themselves on.
They feature local breweries, which is great.
They do retro movies all the time.
A Tuesday night.
ET.
Oh, gosh.
I've got to do one of these.
Actually, I think no, I think ET's next week.
What's the Tuesday night?
Something else.
But they're doing the crow this month.
Every Sunday night, they're doing a different universal monster move.
They're actually doing creature from the black and gloon in 3D.
They did that one already.
I think that was like the first weekend.
If you were at all of them this month that puts you into a drawing,
they are giving away the entire box set blue race for all of the universal monster films.
Which is amazing.
They do a quote alongs where you get like they did one this past Wednesday with ghost busters
where you get to watch the film and you get to.
They put the quote on the screen everybody.
It's the only time I let you talk during a movie.
They do sing alongs where they actually play the old music videos.
The old Jackson's coming up.
I believe next week.
We're later this week.
We may have to make that happen.
Where they're just going to play the videos and you sing along with the balancing balls.
It's like group therapy meets karaoke.
It's the only way I can put this.
We talked earlier that I came here last month with a friend of mine and we saw Battle Royale.
A movie that I had never seen he had and you get to experience all of these great films on the big screen.
And if a 35 millimeter print exists of the film, you're going to see it in 35 millimeter.
We'll get it.
That is the beauty of the Alamo draft house.
It is a theater for people who truly appreciate movies.
I think they had a little issue.
They announced on their Facebook page that they were looking forward to having the monster squad screening in 35.
It doesn't look like they're going to be able to get.
But did you see what they did for it?
They're just going to give tickets for five bucks.
You can see the monster squad in a movie theater.
Are you kidding?
I don't think I've ever seen that movie all the way through.
Russell was saying that the monster house is having an open party and walks a henshi.
Did you know about that?
I thought they made them dismantle that.
Those monsters, right?
Not like the cheese.
Yes.
Okay.
But you know, it's walks a henshi.
They have, you know, it's right outside of west.
And west has a big checklist of hockey and contingent.
And you know, there's cheese involved there.
Could have been that.
I'm sure.
Just go with me on that.
It's the crack pipe balance.
Dallas Video Festival 26 wrapping up tonight.
Go out do some research on some of these films that we've talked about tonight.
Go check them out.
Find out.
Or at least see them.
Because these are are people that are doing film for the sake of film.
They love film and they want film.
It's just like the guys were saying earlier that the guys from strings.
This is what they wanted to film it on film.
They could have filmed it on video because Lord knows everybody else is doing that now.
But they didn't because they wanted to have that look.
It's cheaper to do it on video.
It's more practical to do it on video.
But some people just, they're not satisfied with cheap and practical.
Practical just heard from Don. He's on it on the way right now with our special guest our last special guest to the festival
And we're finishing strong sir. We are finishing strong. We won't we won't give anything away. We'll wait till they get here
Grout's getting lively in here, aren't they well? We're over here in the video islands where people are coming to hang out after they see the films
Discussing the films everybody should have one of these there we go the last half-full is the saloon over at the Alamo where you can go and have a drink
Talk about the films you're seeing the films you're getting ready to see
Don has come back. I just got your text Don sir. Have a seat if you would so honored to introduce
Quinn Matthews. This is the ending interview. We saved the best for last. I just said we are finishing the show strong sir
Mr. Matthews welcome. Thank you. I'm Rob. That's Chad. Hey Robin Chad. This is the clubhouse podcast. I come your film
I just walked around across the parking lot. Also in the last year me we're gonna have Kelly on the show too for a little talk. I'm on board with that too
Quinn Matthews director of the film that we have talked about and talked about and talked about that
I mentioned we've talked about this film
It is called city of hate Dallas and the assassination
Very much looking forward to seeing this film at some point this this is the this was by one and
And I'm not overselling this no bear witness to this sir. Please tell our listening audience about this film
It's a personal
View of the time of the assassination and what Dallas was like both my own personal view and the view of people who are in the film
It goes back to I
Went to I was in elementary school went to see Kennedy a lot of field
And sort of made a you know personal connection as many people did to him
He you know I waived at him. He I was in a sparsely
Populated area. He looked at me and smiled and and acknowledged me and
45 minutes later he was dead and of course it was a shock to everyone and you know for a 13 year old kid who
Had I mean even to this day. I've never seen anyone alive and healthy. He was dead 45 minutes later. So
That part was a shock. I was very aware I was I was very sort of politically aware for a 13-year-old and
They were you know
there were
Forces in Dallas at the time. I'm not going to call them hateful, but I'm going to say that they were considered by many people
Extreme the people who held those views obviously didn't think that but
It it led other people to accuse Dallas of being a city of hate. I was wondering where that term came from and
We were in a library looking at the papers of Earl Cabal who was mayor of Dallas in 1963 and found
I don't think this was the origin of it. We found a letter
To mayor Cabal one of many criticizing Dallas saying you are a city of hate
But you know, why did Dallas have that reputation? Why why did it have sort of a negative connection to the assassination whereas Washington DC and Buffalo
Do not and
It was just it was a different time
So anyway, I was
20 years after the assassination
WFA a channel eight ran all the tapes that an engineer had recorded of their live coverage in the assassination
And I was watching the love field arrival of Kennedy and I'd never seen that before. I didn't know it was on TV and
Because you were there and there was there wasn't a big tape delay thing. Everything was live at that point
Exactly well the thing is also once the president was killed
You know, we're on to a new story, which is the assassination so right so I had never seen that and I'm watching it
And I'm thinking gee with it. They're they're panning along the fence. I would be just beyond that point and then all of a sudden
I saw myself. Oh, wow and Kennedy in same frame and
You know, that was a
shocking
experience
We have many
It won't say many we have a few people in the film who also saw Kennedy and
Sort of a conclusion. I've drawn is that
Dallas gave him a warm welcome to let him know that
Dallas was not a crazy city and was not a city of hate, but would warmly welcome the president
And and I think that opinion is borne out by the comments of other people
So now
It was kind of leads me into my next question. There's a lot going on right now coming up on the 50th anniversary on November 22nd
Probably a question you've probably been asked a hundred times now
Another film that's out there right now, which is more of a fictionalized version of that day in the couple days after have you seen Parkland?
No, I haven't seen it. I've seen the trailer
I look forward to seeing it
You know, I have talked to members of the Zapruder family
The assassination changed their lives and I don't think
I think it's something they wanted to put behind them and a granddaughter has has written a book with life now about that subject and so it's is dealing with it, but
Now I look forward to seeing that movie. I know one of the people involved was also one of one of the producers
Sorry, I'm I'm throwing a blank right now Bill Paxton from Fort Worth also saw Kennedy that morning his father really
his father
Picked him up took took the kids in their pajamas out. I think and they saw the presidential motorcade on Thursday night
The 21st in Fort Worth and then that morning Kennedy came out to speak in the rain outside the hotel Texas and
Bill Paxton
Many years later. In fact, I think just within the last couple of years saw himself in a photograph on his father shoulders and
That led to his interest
As I understand it from what he says in the assassination and he is one of the producers of that movie
So you saw yourself in this video footage was that really the catalyst that made you say hey, I really want to start looking into this and
How long was of the process was the film for you once you finally got the film up and running?
It was very quick actually, but but I mean the origin really goes back to
My awareness in 1963 I saw the president take off an helicopter from the White House
Although I mean I couldn't see him was too far away, but he took off an helicopter. I saw that in 1962 in Washington
You know, he's very eager to see him
My parents took home movies of us
We my father liked the flag and he made a fly he had made a flagpole and we flew this enormous
flag that was actually on my uncle's
Hasket with the end of World War two. Oh wow and
Fluid at half-mast and had to stand there and took our photo, you know took took home movies of us. That's in the film
Then 20 20 years later, I was a reporter at at Channel 4 KDFW and I called Bruce Alger who was the
Republican congressman from Dallas from 1955 to 1965 and I thought he wouldn't want to talk to me
I said, you know, I called him and said I'd like for you to talk about the Kennedy assassination and to my surprise
He said sure. He was very polite and I went over to his office at Campbell Center on Northwest Highway and had a nice interview
So that that kind of anticipates this film because I've gone back and interviewed him in Florida now
When I when I was working at Channel 8 and had access to their material I did a story
On you know young man goes to see the president and how it affects him
Which is the colonel of this idea and I did that for Channel 8 in 1988
the 25th anniversary and
And in you know my more than 20 years in broadcast television
I got more comments about that story than anything then not only than anything then a combination of anything else I
Was
Wow
So I was I was working with the 6th floor museum and KERA
On a possible project and sometimes just getting three parties together like that is difficult
And so the project didn't happen and so in June I just decided I'm gonna make this film myself and we made it very quickly
So has is has you have you let me try that in English for you have you screened this anywhere else
Is this the first screening is first screening? We're calling this the official preview
And the only reason I called it a preview instead of a premiere was we were talking to
Someone about a national broadcast which is not going to happen right now. There will be a broadcast on Channel 13
Here locally our PBS affiliate. Yeah, where is it? Are you planning on taking it anywhere else from here is it I like to I'd like to as I say you know we just finished this film
Oh
Wow, so this is this is fresh off the finish
How long is the running time of the film?
56 minutes and 46 seconds. Okay, okay
Public broadcast time
So if you do get a broadcast version of it, you don't have to worry about cutting back anymore
So it's a but with PBS is when PBS all air it straight through though right there won't be any there won't be any breakups on that
Websites anything you want to plug while you're here because I'm very much looking for to see in there
Yeah, sure. We have a website is called city of hate movie dot com
And you can check that out also
Friend us on Facebook just do Facebook QM what is it?
QM films Quinn Matthews films you can find us there
What any anything new on the horizon that you want to talk about that you're working on next
I'm working on an art installation for the Dallas contemporary for its 35th anniversary. Oh, wow and
it will be
It's the title is going to be 35
I was originally thinking of 35 artists
Basically doing nothing
It's going to be I don't think it's going to be 35
But it will be a combination of artists and things used by artists or things produced by artists
That add up to probably 36. Oh, okay, and I'm gonna call it 35. Okay
I cannot thank you enough for just taking a couple of minutes. I appreciate it
I yeah, I'm sure you probably just ran right over here when you finish the
There go back to the okay, excellent. We don't want to keep you, but uh, thank you so much
I'm looking so forward to seeing this
Thank you. I appreciate it and to your listeners. It is our honest and I can't shake they can't see
Chad anything
I'm blown away by this but that's guys body of work
I knew the voice down if I'm here
Okay, Chad just see I'm not originally from here. Chad's been growing up here his whole life
Born and raised so and when I when I pulled up WR R's web page and there you are and I was like oh
Yeah, oh the modra is a huge WRR fan
I mean she'll be here in a couple weeks
Yeah, I did per per grams for WRR for 26 and a half years
We're not doing it now, but and you've been on WFA for how I mean we were on WFA
Oh really outstanding new radio in the off. All right. Well, I don't want to keep you too much longer
You you sort of
Tune in and try to tune other things out and use your imagination
Agreed and I love the radio media because god knows I have the face for radio. Yeah, you and me both
I hear that a lot. I hear that a lot. Thank you. It's an honor sir. Also joining us right now in the Don C is
It's the woman that made this happen absolutely. Let's just call. Let's call it what it is
If this woman doesn't send me an email and say yes, Rob
I want to show a Dallas video fest
You and I are sitting in the studio probably wrapping it up right now
And me wondering if my wife has made dinner. That's honestly what would be happening right now
And we'd be watching the cowboy game on the little screen above the that we got back into the living room
By the way, we just got an update on that
Let's see end of the first quarter cowboys lead seven three. Yeah, yeah, that is your update
But Kelly kitchens is here
Hello, dear, who's probably gonna sleep for about three days when she leaves here tonight. You may try
I don't I don't think Don's rejoin as the birthday boy. He's gonna allow that
The birthday boy. I know. I've had a fun birthday. This has been great. So yeah, that's what that's what we wanted for you
So Kelly, thank you so much
So Kelly as we're wrapping this thing up your your thoughts on the weekend because I know that you've been here there and everywhere
I have um
Shall I introduce myself to please do talk right into that thing so we can hear you
um, so
So I'm Kelly kitchens. I'm a
media relations and entertainment publics
primarily focus on film and
So the Dallas video festival is one of my clients and we're wrapping up the Dallas video festival this weekend
But I know it'll be back next year for year 27
um
And you know, I just appreciate knowing you guys don't contacted me a while ago
And I wrote it back and I said I don't I don't know why this I just now seeing this because it's like a month later
I do remember that you just got lost in the ether for a while
And so you know, ever since then, you know, I appreciate you guys being on board with the things I've been working on like with Alama draft house
cinema here in Richardson and
With Dallas video fest and you know, it's um, it's such a pleasure to
To work with the media. I'm a former journalist myself and so
So I still consider myself in that realm and you know into to pull you guys in on on this is is a real treasure for me
What is honest honest to god been our pleasure to be here. I've had a blast doing this
This has been great, but let me ask for you highlights from the weekend
Oh my goodness
You know what seeing the films here video fest I want you to know is truly films you can't see anywhere else
And I know a lot of people say that and but it's really kind of true here
um, you know, we showed the number one the film that
Got the best documentary features called the ton and yes, which I saw incredible film
Which I forget yeah, yeah, yeah, hard to tell
um
I've filmmaker in in in in France at the turn of the century of turn of the last century I should say
um who led a very exciting life in film and then was um
kind of trashed
um by anti-semitism and um
And it's and he's been deleted from the French film history and you know to see to see
The to see a film that is bringing back the history of that is
And and bringing him back to life is really very special
um, and that was when they highlighted at the media event a couple of weeks ago who were getting ray
And they were saying this is one of the ones you need to see and it's it's it's a it has some difficult moments in it
That and it's not for everybody, but you know it
I mean if you love film and you love film history then it's it's a must see um one of the other
Um
Highlights was having George slaughter here. He was the creator of laughing
Um, that's right. I forgot about that. He also. I mean judy garland is my absolute favorite singer actress of all time
Uh, and he his first job in 1963 was producing the judy garland show. Oh wow and so you know
That just that just
You know, it just makes me kind of go oh my god
So we're just so were you able to get some facetime and and ask him about that. Yeah, we talked a little bit about it
Um, the sad thing is he says I was fired after six
So six more episodes than I got so you're ahead of me
But you know, I mean she
An episode I think two or three she pulled him up on stage at the end and said you know and gave him a shout out
And gave him you know some facetime on TV and that's unheard of for I would have that playing on a loop at my house
Whenever whenever people would come over you see this
When I when I when I read that bio in here and I saw he'd worked with two of my favorites who
Nat King Cole and Michael Jackson
And who the and who the award is named after I idolize Bernie Covex. I idolize Ernie Cove
I'll say one of the most moving things I said about the Natan was
The there's a film college there basically in in in France that used to be his studio in taunts
And they asked these students here. Who studio they used to be. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
Oh jeez it was it was a pate pate is is the oldest
I mean, it's been around since 1890 and it's it still shows up every now and again
I'll see if it's got the pate logo to be a lot of animation. Uh huh. It's yeah
It's a lot a lot of film a lot of you know, of course foreign film to us, but you know
domestic film to the franchise
So what's up next for you?
You know
After I recover a bit
I recover
Yeah, I actually have a number of people that are sort of waiting in the wings
Um that I've I have to call myself booked until
You know, I'm like, you know, don't contact me. Well, technically that's that's you that's you being but you're booking yourself
You're saying, you know what? Yes, I need some Kelly time here for a couple of days kids
I've had my own business for 18 and a half years and to be able to call myself booked out is
Is a pretty incredible place to be with my business and um
Well, look around you. There's no reason for you not to be proud of the work you've done my friend
Well, and you know, I'll my draft house is certainly one of my clients and we do some fabulous fun things
We've got um
Halloween program coming up on Halloween where it's going to be a carnival outside in the parking lot
So I wasn't aware of that part of we were actually just talking about some of the things coming up
I didn't know they were going to do a carnival. That's because I've been working on video fast
So you'll be fine. Okay
So that's why you don't know about this is a fair court
But you know, so um, so yes, you'll be learning about that very very very shortly
Alma dropped house cinemas is an absolutely amazing
Vineyard to see film and if you're a film lover like we are you want to see your films here because we do not allow any talking any texting
Inside the inside the theater and you know
The people in the theater are the ones that alert the staff to those people talking and texting
So and you do it so anonymously that you they don't say they'll push out go that girl over there
Think that you're too loud because you write it down in a little piece of paper and you post it and they come and get it
And it's as if they're getting you a drink order or you know your hamburger or whatever
And then after two warn you know first warning you get a warning second is um, you're you're taking out and
Adjected from the theater and no refund. I mean we're we're here to see a movie
We're here to be engulfed in the movie agreed and you know and
There they're time time in places for for having fun with the film. I mean, I certainly do. I have the loudest laugh in the world
But you know, I mean, I'm not going to I'm not I don't it's not my intention to ever disturb somebody else's movie going
And for me the fact that it's 100% reserve seating makes it even better because you don't have to come and stand in line for the movie
You buy your ticket your seats reserved. Yes, and you can make sure you know, I when we this is the third time
I've mentioned this on the show. I came for battle royale last month
Yes, and it was myself and a buddy of mine and his wife and they got caught up in traffic
And so we missed most of the pre-show
But we still were able to sit together because it's reserve seating and I love that
Well, and mentioning the pre-show is it is so crucial to be here 30 minutes beforehand. Oh, absolutely
Because there's no commercials the pre-show actually fits with what you're going to be seeing the film
And if it's a crappy film then the pre-show will make up for that
Seriously really fun and do the guys that have to look for all that do they have the greatest job in the world?
My job is to look for weird archive footage that I can hook up to a movie
I mean that is the greatest job in the history of ever right we were here for a machete kills the other night
Oh dear god, and some of the they had the five best machete kills by a machete of all time from different horror films
And some of it it's just so obscure and you're just like how does that even fit but can I take you to the one thing I'm kind of bummed about
What's up? I've now been here to the Alamo probably four or five times
I've seen this online, but I've never seen on on the big screen the no-talk no-text trailer with the girl in the voicemail
Oh well that could be that's could be one of my favorites of all time
You know it's in rotation and I have to tell you that
It will be in rotation because she she was ejected from a film because she was
Had her phone on trying to look for a seat and she claims she plays
And she was drunk as a skunk and I don't know just gonna fit drunk
Anyway, um, but that's the thing. It's okay. I've used the phrase. So they decided to use their voicemail of calling and being mad that she got
bumped up from from seeing her film and
You know, and they said and at the end it says she said I'm never coming back to your Alamo
Drac house and at the end it says
Thank you for not coming back to our
Alamo Drac and you can see that the clip is out there. Yeah, the clip is you can see the clip on YouTube
It's out there and the first time I heard it I it was probably about a week before the first Alamo
Event that you get you that you had and I was like I've heard the stories, but now I'm really in yeah
Because to be that unashamed of it like you know what? This is what we do, you know like it don't show up
I mean, you know what? I mean the really the really fun thing is that they will do they will do special
um
Special PSAs if you will for no talking the texting like I did from a she did one from a city kills
And they because they did one with um and Richards you have to look for that one okay before we text it on phones
But but it was like the no talking part and she came in oh my gosh, you have to look that one
I'm gonna have you have write that down. We're looking that up this week. Tell me tomorrow night when you come over
Looking it up right now as well. We're on the air right now. I know she gets a call on her red line phone
They have phone for emergencies and it's like yes, I'll be there in a moment and she comes and she points him out and she's like you
Nice get out of here. I'm in it's hysterical and so we will have you know, I mean we're brand new
Opened on August the 9th
Um, but we will have our own very special ones that it'll probably be coming up in the new year
I could not be happier that the Alamos here
It to me. It's a cathedral for film. Yes, you know, that's a great way to put it sir
Especially if we at that house. We saw a machete kills in
Yeah, that was in the big house and I was just I love and we also saw in your next there too
We did this we were at the screen for your next
Well, here's the thing, you know, we do have 4k projection. There's lots gorgeous
We also have two houses that have two 35 millimeter projectors in those houses
That means that we can show archival 35 millimeter prints
And you know, and they've got a ton of them in their warehouse and we do
so
Yeah, and there will be there's there's classic film shown like like this up this next Sunday
We're ending the series of
of
Universal monster movies with Dracula on Sunday. I love me some Bella like I see and
um
Yes, that's right because the following Sundays the master pancake thing
It's actually the same Sunday
It's the 20s you got one more Sunday between now and then wait because today's the 13th so you got the 20th and the 27
Okay, so
Okay, so the dragon was the 27th the 27. Yeah, okay, so next week is
Oh, the next week is um
Uh Frankenstein the bride of Frankenstein, so they're doing they are doing it as a double
I saw I saw pictures the double feature, but I was assuming separate Sundays are they're doing them back-to-back
So Frankenstein and bride of Frankenstein yes back-to-back next Sunday at the Alamo draft
Oh, what was today?
Today was creature from the black looking three. No, no, that was that was September 30th was the was the creature from the black
It's all blending I think for you right now
You're so it's okay my friend. You have worked so hard. It's all gonna blend for you at this
drafthouse.com
and clashed the FW
Yeah, and click on the Richardson location on there to you
Calendar pull down the calendar and you'll see you'll see it there
You'll see the first run films that we show as well as the special
He's got a chef's got it up right now and so
And you can click over to the side. I think it's over this side where it'll show
I read this side where it'll show um
You know do you want to see all the films or do you want to see this special? Wait, wait, wait, what'd you see?
Oh, wait, are you kidding me? When did this start space tomorrow night at the Alamo
TV on the big screen WWE Monday Night Raw huh tomorrow night at the Alamo start doing that
Click on that, sir. You got you're not clicking on it yet. I'm clicking me to talk
This is happening people
We need to book this like right now because wrestling is a part of this show. WWE is a part of this show
We do live remotes for all the WWE pay-per-views right at the street of Fox and Hound
And a lot of our fan base are WWE fans if they're showing WWE Monday Night Raw tomorrow night right here at the Alamo
It's seven o'clock and I said that all in one breath
We're booking this okay
You're meeting me at the house and we're driving up here for that that is happening. We had no idea that was happening
Do we need to do we need to book seats for that or go into calendar?
I've at least once a week and make sure because there's new stuff that pops in every single every single week
Oh my gosh my brain just melted
I'm glad
Is that what's running all over the floor here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, be careful where you step
We'll definitely have to get that on the website too and on the Facebook page
Yeah, yeah, we can get to see if we can throw together an empire meet-up because this week for the old school stuff
We've got pumpkin head the monster squad monster squad the crow and then this Saturday is the Michael Jackson
Sing along in dance party
Chad Chad oh
Your turn sir. Well because he's supposed to come to the state fair with me
But but you know what I will excuse you
For that sir if you tell me Rob
I'm not going to go to the state fair because your lovely wife who is of British descent and yourself are coming to the Alamo
Drafthouse for the Michael Jackson sing along in dance party. There's only one caveat
Video or it didn't happen
Chad do you want to just move here? Yeah
Not get this they're also doing the Michael Jackson sing along in dance party on Halloween night before they do
Allowing oh wow, that's right. We did talk about they're doing that twice this month
Uh-huh and every month of the Alamo is a different theme. Yeah, that's the genius. This is obviously my favorite because it's our birthday month
Don and I'm a Halloween junkie of course as his evidence. Thank you so much Kelly
I would like to say I'm already looking for the number 27. I mean look at what we have right now
I mean you have some music in the background. He got people enjoying themselves great movies going
You got a podcast what you know, this has just been an incredible experience and I can't think you know
Oh, this is yeah, you to thank for it Kelly. Yeah, all right Kelly
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My website is Kelly with the Y kitchens with an S
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When I got married, so I'm Kelly kitchens. No, it's got that. What do they call that? It's a literary alliteration
I watch Jeopardy I should know this
You should know this from school
I get public school public school south Florida. We make no guarantees
Broward County public schools in the in the 80s and early 90s. We make no guarantees
Um, so this is the two ways to find me and I'm always posting whatever I'm doing on my Facebook page on my personal Facebook page, so
um, you know, it's uh, that's those are the best ways to to find me and I really appreciate you guys having me on
Oh, we appreciate the honor is absolutely all ours and we're looking forward to the next thing you want us to help you out with
Well, that's what we're here for me this next week because I I know I know I have a christmas show coming up outstanding
It's Ricky Derrick who does um, he's he's a crooner all Frank Sinatra in
And he's big fan of chairman is um, it's a great christmas show at the liquid theater
Um, it'll be on December the 14th
He has a matinee show for for families and then a more adult show for adults
Okay, and uh, it's always always splashed in some comedy and you know, but he's he's a fun singer. He's he's really great
So I'll be working on that in December for christmas. I love christmas. Love love. So um, so what Halloween is for me?
Christmas is for you. Okay. I'm the same way. I love I love the weather. I love the spirit of it
Um, what are you going to do for Halloween? I've been doing the same thing every I always do the grim reaper the grim reaper
Okay, what are you going to do? I'm not I'm not a Halloween dress-up guy
But I do every year. I have the same shirt. I wear it's all the peanuts characters from it's the great pumpkin trolley brown
And they're all they're all in their costumes walking. So I wear that every year
Um, you'll be able to see that at some point at alamo
So I'll let you know
Pumpkin Thanksgiving and Christmas
I've got those as the through three blue ray set at my house and I watch them every year. Oh, yeah, you never guess what my costume would be
Do we try to guess go for it one guess one guess
Have I seen pictures of this maybe okay? Is it
Is it classical is it classic or is it new?
Yeah, but dabba dude
I thought it was outfit and I thought it was the same outfit you wore to buff it. That's what I was wondering
Does he have a dabba dude when he goes to see how many times have you seen how many times did you meet buff at 27 times and he has a mermaid costume
That is here's photo evidence. I make the perfect Fred. I got the outfit with the bone and everything in the boot time
Yeah, do you do you
Take out the floorboard of your car and
Now that video is all video or it didn't happen if you could trick out your car to like what they do with the ecto one in the park
That was amazing
So they had an exact replica of the ecto one from Ghostbusters in the parking lot right on the front and they fired up the siren and everything and it looks gorgeous
Wow, all right my friend. We're gonna let you go do what you do. Thank you so much
We'll be talking to you seen Kelly kitchens PR everybody go check her out if you need anything that she can help you out with
Get with her because she gets it done and she gets it done right. She is an angel of deliverance
Deliverance, but not that kind of not that kind of delivery. We're at a film festival. So I don't think I need to bring that word up
Thank you so much Kelly. Thank you guys
Let's do the plug. Shall we let's do it?
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For Don great job sir again
No, I think there's been incredible credible for Chad
Way to be sir great job that was my pleasure
For the empire for everybody here at video fest 26
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