The Windmill Movie Premieres on HBO

October 28, 2009

Dear cable television subscribers,

If you haven’t seen it yet, the time has finally come, for Alexander Olch’s The Windmill Movie premieres tonight—Wednesday, October 28th—at 8pm on HBO. Olch assembles footage shot by his deceased film school teacher, Richard P. Rogers, in order to finish the lifelong project that Rogers was never able to reconcile. Read my conversation with Olch from earlier this year, as well as my full review, in which I favorably compare The Windmill Movie to Synecdoche, New York, and explain what I think makes it such a marvelous feat. Then visit the film’s page at the HBO website to view the full schedule. Then watch it!

Sincerely,

Michael Tully

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Michael Tully

Michael Tully is an award-winning writer/director whose films have garnered widespread critical acclaim, his projects having premiered at some of the most renowned film festivals across the globe. He is also the former (and founding) editor of this site. In 2006, Michael's first feature, COCAINE ANGEL, chronicling a tragic week in the life of a young drug addict, world premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film immediately solidified the director as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s "25 New Faces of Independent Film,” a reputation that was reinforced a year later when his follow-up feature, SILVER JEW, a documentary capturing the late David Berman's rare musical performances in Tel Aviv, world-premiered at SXSW and landed distribution with cult indie-music label Drag City. In 2011, Michael wrote, directed, and starred in his third feature, SEPTIEN, which debuted at the 27th annual Sundance Film Festival before being acquired by IFC Films' Sundance Selects banner. A few years later, in 2014, Michael returned to Sundance with the world premiere of his fourth feature, PING PONG SUMMER, an ‘80s set coming-of-age tale that was quickly picked up for theatrical distribution by Gravitas Ventures. In 2018, Michael wrote and directed the dread-inducing genre film DON'T LEAVE HOME, which has been described as "Get Out with Catholic guilt in the Irish countryside" (IndieWire). The film premiered at SXSW and was subsequently acquired by Cranked Up Films and Shudder.

The Windmill Movie Premieres on HBO

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