Why You Should Go See The Last Lullaby
Jun. 9th, 2009 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deirdreThe Last Lullaby is one of the rare breed of truly independent movies. Not only that, it's a great movie.
Fanboys was another film that started out self-funded, but the development section of the film's Wikipedia page tells the timeline about why the funding became so problematic. (The final release contained a bit more vulgar humor than I prefer, but at least it's Kyle Newman's work.) The point of bringing this up is really: with money may come strings that ruin a director's vision, fortunately not permanently in the case of Fanboys.
Many movies are funded by people who care about movies making money and will tend toward the least common denominator of film. Even releasing companies get into it, insisting on certain cuts of films and taking a huge chunk off the top. The people who raise their own funding and, in the case of Lullaby also eschew a releasing company's control, are the kinds of people whose vision we rarely see except at film festivals.
If you want an intelligent indie film, go see a real indie film. The Last Lullaby is running in San Jose from June 12-18. After that, it's open, so if you live in an area where you think it'd be a draw, feel free to contact the director and try to make it happen.
The Last Lullaby was one of two movies where Rick and I scratched our heads and asked, "Why isn't this in a theatre again?"
And now it is.
Go.
Jeffrey ended up raising all the money for Lullaby himself, selling the film in $50,000 units to private investors in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. He believed it would take this level of freedom to make a movie that he felt was slightly different than most things currently being made.
Fanboys was another film that started out self-funded, but the development section of the film's Wikipedia page tells the timeline about why the funding became so problematic. (The final release contained a bit more vulgar humor than I prefer, but at least it's Kyle Newman's work.) The point of bringing this up is really: with money may come strings that ruin a director's vision, fortunately not permanently in the case of Fanboys.
Many movies are funded by people who care about movies making money and will tend toward the least common denominator of film. Even releasing companies get into it, insisting on certain cuts of films and taking a huge chunk off the top. The people who raise their own funding and, in the case of Lullaby also eschew a releasing company's control, are the kinds of people whose vision we rarely see except at film festivals.
If you want an intelligent indie film, go see a real indie film. The Last Lullaby is running in San Jose from June 12-18. After that, it's open, so if you live in an area where you think it'd be a draw, feel free to contact the director and try to make it happen.
The Last Lullaby was one of two movies where Rick and I scratched our heads and asked, "Why isn't this in a theatre again?"
And now it is.
Go.