Comments on: A Conversation With Alex Ross Perry (THE COLOR WHEEL)

By: Chad Hartigan

Chad Hartigan — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:09:00 +0000

Just revisited this and it’s a must-read for any filmmaker that’s ever been rejected or accepted to a film festival.

By: COLOR WHEEL, THE – Hammer to Nail

COLOR WHEEL, THE – Hammer to Nail — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:39:16 +0000

[…] (Distributed by Cinema Conservancy and Factory 25, The Color Wheel opens theatrically in NYC at BAM on Friday, May 18, 2012. It world premiered at the 2011 Sarasota Film Festival and co-shared the Best Narrative award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival before screening at BAMcinemaFEST and many, many more festivals throughout the world. Visit the film’s official website to learn more. NOTE: This review was first published at HTN on June 21, 2011, and was also posted on Thursday, May 17, 2012 as a “Hammer to Nail Pick of the Week” at the Filmmaker Magazine blog. ***Also, be sure to read A Conversation With Alex Ross Perry.***) […]

By: Tully

Tully — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Hey “Guest”, not sure if you have read HTN before but we have never tried to pass ourselves off as objective journalists. We ARE biased—it’s just that we typically choose to concentrate on the act of positive bias. I’m sorry if this sounds like showoffy buddy-buddiness, but this was also a three-pitcher conversation between two people who are friends in real life, so to have presented it any other way would have been inappropriate. That was the entire point of this one, to publish a conversation that wasn’t a typical junket interview—i.e., 12 minutes in a hotel room with someone you don’t know, only to be ushered out so that the next person you don’t know can be ushered in—so it was likely to veer into the type of direction you’re criticizing it for. Maybe I should have nixed the mention of the filmmaker’s girlfriend, or maybe I should have nixed some of those laughs, but ARP was being very funny and I wanted to insert them to make sure they weren’t misinterpreted as statements of uber-serious bravado. Seems like people have been reading into ARP’s interviews recently and thinking he’s more arrogant or cocky than he is. But thanks for your feedback. It has been processed.

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:57:00 +0000

Thanks for the interview. And nothing against Alex Ross Perry who comes off admirably here, but come on, Michael Tully – there’s a smirking, buddy-buddy, hand-job-under-the-table quality to this interview that reeks a bit of blind bias and inserting yourself unnecessarily as the “friend of the filmmaker”. Do you really need to publish your compliments to his girlfriend and every time you laugh and “laugh louder”? Not to mention that A.O. Scott’s review was not “utterly glowing” but as he put it “qualified admiration” – nothing against “The Color Wheel” as Scott is a dweeb with floundering taste. But come on, Perry’s comments without all your laugh-lines would have been perfectly adequate.

By: Randall

Randall — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:27:00 +0000

Cute guy.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:42:00 +0000

This is the best interview i’ve ever read on H2N. Thanks for this.