Well looks like "Death, Destruction, & the Weather Coming Up Next" likes to travel. It has been selected for a special out of competition program, "Different American Cinema" for the 12th annual Milano Film Festival. There is a chance I may actually get to go to Milan as well, which is really cool. Here is the description of the program.
"Since this year's edition of the feature film competition includes two US works for the first time, we asked ourselves "What do American films today portray?" and tried to find an answer with the help of the short and feature films that were submitted to the competitions. Considering the high number of works, we decided to carve out some space for a few stories by young directors.
The short films in this section highlight human stories of greatness and more often of misery, family relationships marked by guilt and sorrow, friendships in which the seeds of doubts and rejection are planted. When it comes to the feature films there is something different to say: it would be difficult to describe their contents in a few words. If we should define them in conventional terms, we would use adjectives like "disturbing", "unconventional", "experimental" or "narratively disjointed". In spite of the feeling of spontaneous, personal, poor and instinctive films, a deeper analysis reveals that the works are well studied and depict self-absorbed characters, created by directors focusing on complex and troublesome individuals."
Milano Film Festival 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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