The Moonlit Road in festival

Remember that film we reviewed few months ago entitled “the moonlit road”? Well it finally make it to its first festival!! I just received a warm letter from its director Leor Baum, asking me to spread the word. So here it is with the official poster. This fine film will be screened here in Los Angeles :

Friday, May 30th @8:00pm

Echo Park Film Center   MAP

1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)

Los Angeles, CA 90026

http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/

Doors open @ 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10.

Drinks are free (Wine, Beer, and Dry Soda).

Q and A to follow, as well as a raffle. 

 

Hope to see you there!

 

The Indie Film Reviewer

“I am Legend”, The last man on earth

 

“I am Legend” is the second feature film of Francis Lawrence, important music videos director ( Britney Spears, Aerosmith) but also of “Constantine”. “Legend” starring Will Smith who plays the role of the last man on Earth, scientist still searching for a cure to a virus (created by the Man) that annihilated Earth. 

In this new film, Lawrence approaches the theme of the last man on earth. “legend”, coming from Latin “legenda” or ” thing to be read”, shows well the projection of the audience in the future and the not-to-far status of the man. The film is intercut between scenes of  Robert Neville’s lonely daily life in NYC, trying to find a cure, an between flashbacks showing the end of the days. The showing a NYC full of life ( flashbacks), next to a completely empty one with wilderness taking over the city, creates a very interesting contrast.

This film shows the Man should fear himself more than the end of times, or the Sun extinction.

Eastern Promises

David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises portraits the relations within the slavic mafia. After the birth of a baby whose mother died giving life to her, a foreign nurse tries to find the family of this newly born, without knowing where she is puting her feet into. Beautifully photographed by long time Cronenberg’s DP Peter Suschitzky, he gives the cold look of the Eastern Europe feel. A long research on the tattoos used in the film, has been done on Viggo Mortensen’ s suggestion during his own research for the role. Featuring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, and French actor Vincent Cassel.

“The Moonlit Road”, a modern tale adaptation

When Ambrose Bierce wrote “The Moonlit Road” in 1907, he surely did not think it would have been adapted into a modern motion picture a hundred years later. Young director Leor Baum adapted and directed what is now a modern tale adaptation. Modern yet poetic, the audience is taken through several time travels. Different families inhabiting the same space at different times, but facing the same problem: the divided family. Young French cinematographer Sebastien Hameline contributed to the look of the film, giving it an atmospherical look, and at the same time dynamic. Keeping this current subject of family issue mixed with ghost stories and lyricism, Leor Baum gives us a breeze of freshness ( and spookyness), in today’s short films. Trailer at http://www.myspace.com/themoonlitroad