Reel Entropy

The festival highlight is Quantum Cowboys tonight at 7, followed by A24 property Problemista. It’s a good thing I needed to put in an extra hour of work yesterday, because if I weren’t able to take off an hour early today, I probably wouldn’t make that curtain. Part of the reason I moved to Dallas was to be closer to the Texas Theatre – I was going out in Oak Cliff as often as I was in Denton at that point, but 40 miles and 20 miles are the same distance if you’re trying to cross them at rush hour in Dallas. If I’m going to Oak Cliff, I still need to plan out a full day to make the trip worthwhile, and unless I fully move down there, I still need a machete to make a 7 p.m. Friday night curtain.

I’m planning on film festival coverage becoming a big part of what I do here, but it’s a few years down the line. I want to finish expanding my languages and see Europe first, but I’m still going to be accruing cash and vacation time once I’ve seen the places I want to see, and this is the obvious way to spend those things.

My focus is on the U.S. box office, so I want to stick to major international festivals with entrants that are actually likely to get distribution deals and be seen, but especially now when I don’t really know how to do it, it’s weird that I’ve been inclined to ignore the biggest festival in my Dallas backyard, the Oak Cliff Film Festival put on every June in my favorite place in the world, the Texas Theatre.

What else is out this weekend, anyway? You really think I’m writing about No Hard Feelings? Fuck you!