Blast from the past: Fessenden’s ORCA, built when he was 12
from scant few references during the JAWS craze of 1975.
Happy 4th of July from GEP

The Buck Moon tonight is a Supermoon

Fessenden’s forthcoming film BLACKOUT
(Premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival July 20)
begins on the night of the Buck Moon

From The New Yorker: Reichardt is this country’s finest observer of ordinary grit, an American neorealist to place among the likes of Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, and Vittorio De Sica. The regard for her takes on a hero aspect. It can often feel dazed because of the deep reserve of Reichardt’s stamina, which has carried her through her singular three-decade career. What can seem ambiguous or glamorous about the labor of a director surfaces, in her case, as explicit and arduous. She may scour dozens of states for a filming location, grinding vehicles into highways and back roads. She splits the editing work with an assistant. She is fifty-nine; a good portion of her adulthood has been spread across sublets and rentals, in New York City and the Pacific Northwest. Only in recent years has she been financially able to tie herself to a mortgage. She is a working artist, one who supplements filmmaking with teaching undergraduates. Why should this normal life be classed as sacrifice, as pure? “I never assumed,” Reichardt said, “that I was not going to have a job.”

Read Full article HERE

Stream Kelly Reichardt’s films on Peacock (FIRST COW, NIGHT MOVES, WENDY & LUCY), Tubi (CERTAIN WOMEN), MAX (OLD JOY), Showtime (MEEK’S CUTOFF), Plex (RIVER OF GRASS) and more!

ok ok I give. I can’t tell what’s real any more.

In comments before the movie’s world premiere at the Austin Film Festival Cusick tried to explain his intentions: “One of the things I felt strongly about in the making of ‘The Wild Man’ is that I wanted this film to embrace the sincerity of the situation. We’re not playing for laughs or shock value, even though the titular character wears a modified Bigfoot costume for the entire runtime. There’s something that was so freeing and vulnerable about embracing sort of an occult idea with open hearts. And there’s something about that strangeness that makes it feel like a fairytale, speaking to something more universal. The sort of story that could remind us of our own relationships to our loved ones, to the world around us, and to ourselves. And at its core we wanted to capture the instability of our minds against an unconditional love. Most of all, I just hope my dad likes the film.”

read article by Charles Ealy

top: Fessenden with director / actor Riley Cusick; below Jenna Kanell with the wild man.

A Roku Exclusive on Apple TV
(huh? sad state of indie film distribution…)

TBT 2007, Director Ti West (TRIGGER MAN, THE INNKEEPERS, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, X Trilogy), actor Darroch Greer (EXPERIENCED MOVERS, HOLLOW VENUS) and producer Brent Kunkle (LIBERTY KID, I SELL THE DEAD, BITTER FEAST, etc) at the Los Angeles Film Festival 16 years ago today.

Unspooling at the fest that year: THE LAST WINTER, TRIGGER MAN and LIBERTY KID.

Episode #220: LARRY FESSENDEN

In part one of our two-part conversation, Larry discusses his formative film experiences, what qualifies a perfect film, film criticism, what Larry learned from some of his favorite horror film directors and the genius of “Rocky Horror Picture Show”. Be sure to check out part 2 next week where Larry delves more into his body of work.

Listen to the conversation HERE.
Be on the lookout for Part 2,
coming soon…

Brooklyn 45 – 89%

What happens when a group of military veterans decide to host a séance in 1945? Chaos, but in the best way possible thanks to the outstanding cast of Brooklyn 45. Featuring the likes of Anne Ramsay, and Larry Fessenden, this supernatural horror film knows what audiences expect from it, and delivers wholeheartedly. With Fessenden delivering what is perhaps one of the best monologues ever by a character actor, Brooklyn 45 takes a special look at grief, while at the same time examining the paranoia following World War 2 that everyone and their mother was a Nazi spy.

Produced by the streaming service Shudder, Brooklyn 45 had its world premiere at the 2023 South by Southwest festival, and a month later premiered in homes across the country as a Shudder Original. While some might be turned off by a period piece, we recommend you don’t sleep on this one.

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