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[prog]

This afternoon I went to dougo's to watch Henry Fool, immediately after which we set off to the Somerville Theater to watch its sequel, Fay Grim, which headlined this weekend's Boston Independent Film Festival. (cthulhia, who is volunteering at the IIF, joined us for the latter.)

It was a surreal experience. First of all, the movies were filmed 10 years apart from each other, so watching them with a real-time separation of about an hour was trippy. Secondly, I cannot recall ever seeing two movies that shared the same central characters and yet were so utterly different from one another, less in tone than in genre, almost.

All that said, I enjoyed both films a great deal! The main draw for me was their having James "urbaniak" Urbaniak in a starring role; I've been reading his LJ long enough to have been curious about both movies. I'm happy to say that I can generally recommend them.

Mr. U took the stage after the film to answer questions. Towards the end he attempted to determine if one of his LJ's regular commenters was in the crowd, and got an uncertain response. Doug and I are mostly lurkers so we just slunk away and ate burritos.

Comments

[doctor-atomic.livejournal.com]

My review of Henry Fool (http://doctor-atomic.livejournal.com/15211.html). I did not share your enthusiasm for it. Maybe Fay Grim is better.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I recalled your review going into it, and while I didn't remember exactly what you wrote, I easily identified the parts and dialogue that you didn't like. I found it a little distracting as well, but I quite enjoyed the movie as a whole.

Fay Grim has such a different feel to it - in part because everyone involved is a decade more experienced in acting or filmmaking - that I'd recommend it to you anyway, especially since you almost liked the first movie.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

i had completely forgotten that urbaniak was speaking there. now i regret flaking on going!

my entry on henry fool, which is less about henry fool and more about my dad.