Two films that played in Orange County in March and April to wide critical acclaim--if by "wide critical acclaim" you mean "received positive reviews from OC Weekly"--will screen up the road in that little berg that natives call Los Angeles in the days ahead.
Of Quality of Life, a drama about the lives of San Francisco graffitti writers that showed at Edwards University in Irvine, we wrote: "this li'l pic packs authentic street grittiness, a kicking soundtrack (featuring the likes of Modest Mou
American Hardcore, the documentary about the rapid-fire aggro punk that exploded in Orange County circa 1980 (we just wrote about the film here and here), was last week's No. 1 movie at Edwards University in Irvine. That, of course, means it'll be sticking around awhile longer for you tatted, jack-booted, leather-jacketed, chain-dangling, orange-spiked, tackle-box pierced captains of industry who have not seen it. Go already!
Chill the Red Bull, re-heat the coffee and warm up the crack pipe: your eyeballs are about to get a workout from local screens in the days ahead.
"Imagine This" took a film crew high into the Andes Mountains.
First, Laguna Beach Film Society screens the documentary Imagine This tonight. Eion Bailey, an actor you may remember from TV's ER, took some friends and a film crew into a remote mountain village in Peru to see if they could change the lives of the people there in one week. Hi
