Borat clung to No. 1 again this past weekend, no doubt bouyed by countless favorable reviews, exceedingly positive word-of-mouth and Steve Lowery's article on the climactic scenes filmed at the Block at Orange. Steve's story surmises that because mall security spilled the beans to him about what they knew beforehand about the Block scenes with an abused Pam Anderson, the ultimate joke of the film may have been that the gasp-inducing finale was the lone set-up piece.
But there is ample evidence
Sup. Broadcasting LIVE from the Corporately Sponsored AT&T Cool Down Charge Up tent. I am not really doing either at the moment, though.
Philly's Dr. Dog just finished up at the Mojave tent a bit ago, and as Larry David might say, they were "pretty, pretty good." Tracks like "Worst Trip" and "The Beach" ruled it, though they made reference to some problems with their distortion pedal. Aww.
Why are the little booklets with the settimes and the maps always so hard to come by every year?
The Cove, a documentary about the annual massacre of more than 25,000 dolphins in Wakayama, Japan, created quite the buzz when it played at the last Sundance festival.
An Orange County audience gets a chance to meet the creators of that buzz tonight. Filmmakers Charles Hambleton and Larry David Eudene introduce their movie before the 7:20 p.m. screening at Edwards University Theatre in Irvine. They will take questions from the audience afterward.
Youths who attend can joi
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
