Transit strike and NY indies
Filed under: Sundance, DIY/Filmmaking
On the Filmmaker blog,
Scott Macaulay ponders how the now-ending transit strike might have thus far impacted New York producers trying to
hustle their features through post in time for Sundance. "Fortunately," he writes, "the project I'm
working on is picture-locked and all elements are to the appropriate vendors. My worry is with the vendors and their
employees, hoping that the strike doesn't slow them down." He goes on to ask others involved with NY productions,
Sundance or otherwise, to shar their horror stories. The major catastrophe for us is that I missed two press screenings
on the first day of the strike - Casanova and Rumor Has It – and will be able to write a
straight review of neither. How should I handle this conundrum? What would you like to see instead? And if you have
other movie-related strike stories, do tell. Now that it's all over it's time to take stock – and take the L
train into city for the first time this week.
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12-22-2005 @ 5:00PM
Christopher Campbell said...
The first movie-related thing that I thought of while walking home Tuesday evening was that I wished Quick Change was out on DVD (it is scheduled for 2/14), because I was at the time hating New York.
The second movie-related thing that I thought of was that this would be the best time to see a film at The Angelika Film Center, where typically you can hear the subway beneath you in their subterranean auditoriums. Then I remembered that I'm spending $35 a day in cabfare and can't afford to go to the movies anyway.
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