http://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-august-11-09/ building a home for ambitious film Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:41:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-august-11-09/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 / HAMMER TO NAIL » Blog Archive » Filmmaker Reflections - The 2000s: Vol. 2 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:54:10 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=4717#comment-1346 [...] It’s hard for me to think of any other than recent movies to reflect on, so how about a film related experience that has stayed with me through the decade instead? Me and my permanent sweetie Diaz were at Cannes to support Gerardo (Naranjo) and his film Drama/Mex which was premiering there in, I think, 2006. We were at some main hotel one morning, around 10am, following Gerardo around when, as he was about to take off somewhere, he said in hushed urgent tone, “Look at the bar, Aki Kaurismäki is there!” He had to go on his way quickly, so it was up to Diaz and I to do something. It took us a bit to work up the courage to approach him, stealing glances, seeing that he was wavering a bit on his feet. But finally, like two eager puppies we went up and did our best to express what his work meant to us and thank him for it. It really felt like he was hearing us, and even though he was most likely drunk, or at least hungover, he stared deep into our eyes and looked from one of us to the other, giving us all his time and attention. When we were finished with our spiel, a long moment of silence passed—he still hadn’t said anything to us; we had just dived right into it. After the silence was just beginning to become uncomfortable for us to start fidgeting, Aki said, ” You’re both so young. (long pause) Enjoy it while it lasts.” I don’t know if we were looking for wise words—I think mostly we wanted to make contact with the hopes of showing him the film we made—but his words and they way he looked at us has stayed with me, carried me through some times when I needed them. — Azazel Jacobs (Momma’s Man, The GoodTimesKid) [...] [...] It’s hard for me to think of any other than recent movies to reflect on, so how about a film related experience that has stayed with me through the decade instead? Me and my permanent sweetie Diaz were at Cannes to support Gerardo (Naranjo) and his film Drama/Mex which was premiering there in, I think, 2006. We were at some main hotel one morning, around 10am, following Gerardo around when, as he was about to take off somewhere, he said in hushed urgent tone, “Look at the bar, Aki Kaurismäki is there!” He had to go on his way quickly, so it was up to Diaz and I to do something. It took us a bit to work up the courage to approach him, stealing glances, seeing that he was wavering a bit on his feet. But finally, like two eager puppies we went up and did our best to express what his work meant to us and thank him for it. It really felt like he was hearing us, and even though he was most likely drunk, or at least hungover, he stared deep into our eyes and looked from one of us to the other, giving us all his time and attention. When we were finished with our spiel, a long moment of silence passed—he still hadn’t said anything to us; we had just dived right into it. After the silence was just beginning to become uncomfortable for us to start fidgeting, Aki said, ” You’re both so young. (long pause) Enjoy it while it lasts.” I don’t know if we were looking for wise words—I think mostly we wanted to make contact with the hopes of showing him the film we made—but his words and they way he looked at us has stayed with me, carried me through some times when I needed them. — Azazel Jacobs (Momma’s Man, The GoodTimesKid) [...]

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