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Friday, February 27, 2009 - 12:00 PM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
A New Tampa Film Review?
I’m about to call it.
I’m about to sit down and write the unauthorized review of The Tampa
Film Review for 2009, and will include an overall summary of the five
year history of a monthly film festival which really didn’t do much
but spin its wheels. Ultimately, the TFR didn’t go anywhere or benefit
anyone.
Was the TFR a failure? Well, that depends on if it did what it set out
to do. To some, the TFR was not a failure because it did what the organizers
claimed. That’s not saying much, however. As a film festival, and
as a platform for promoting indie film, The Tampa Film Review did fail.
Did any filmmakers ever get a distribution deal from showing a film at
The Tampa Film Review? Did The Tampa Film Review advance or improve in
its five year run? No, and no.
Will there ever be a new Tampa Film Review? If it is set up and executed
the same way, let’s hope not. While there are rumors of a new TFR
in the pipeline, and if it ever happens it may very well share its name,
it won’t really be the TFR, and this is good and bad. So, I’m
closing the book on The Tampa Film Review, and am calling it over, even
if another film festival starts up with the same name.
Some people will never learn. Here’s hoping that the next, or new,
TFR will learn from the mistakes of the original. Here’s hoping
that it does better.
Here’s a thought, however. Paul Guzzo once said that his TFR was
set up like a bunch of friends getting together to watch films. I kind
of like that idea, but it only really works if the films are good films.
Otherwise, as the TFR demonstrated, and proved, again and again, you lose
your audience by boring them. No one wants to sit through badly made films
and attend a poorly organized film festival with no real purpose or point.
The concept is not without merit, however.
For the past few years, I’ve had movie nights with women who I’ve
dated and other movie viewing nights with groups of friends. I’ve
amassed one of the largest collections of films and movies in the Tampa
Bay area, and have seen all of them, so I have no shortage of great movies
to watch. Since, currently, there are not a lot Tampa films worth watching,
why not have viewing parties with great movies? I’m thinking about
having private, small home film festivals where no more than twenty indie
film professionals would have dinner and sit around watching indie films
from around the world and some of the best movies ever made. Afterwards,
we’d sit around discussing the film and the filmmaking techniques
employed in the film. These movie nights would be exclusive, and invite-only,
and I would have talent, such as models and actors, attend as well. I
believe by studying, and discussing, good movies, that we will all benefit
in our filmmaking careers, as well as have fun hanging out for a night
of dining and movies.
The legendary director Stanley Kubrick was an avid movie buff who would
watch movies constantly, studying them. I believe this contributed to
making him a great director. After all, we do best when we really know
our craft and constantly study the successful efforts of others. For me,
this will be the new Tampa Film Review, and the old one could never touch
what is to come, and the benefits which will come from what we will be
doing.
My movie nights won’t be official film festivals, of course, but
will be really cool, and really fun. In the past, I spent nights curled
up on the couch with a model watching movies together or getting with
a group of friends to watch movies. This will be a bit more interesting,
as we will be objectively reviewing and discussing the movies that we
see. The dining and the fun will be cool, too. So, what would my first
picks for movies be? Let’s see...... I have a lot of rare movies
which are hard to find in stores, and are great films:
01. Pumpkin
02. American Beauty
03. The World’s Fastest Indian
04. A Walk To Remember
05. Tucker: A Man And His Dream
06. The Aviator
07. Some Kind Of Wonderful
08. Down With Love
09. The Last Castle
10. Peggy Sue Got Married
11. Crank
12. Cellular
13. Flight Of The Phoenix
14. Duma
15. Cool World
16. Matchstick Men
17. Only You
18. Made Of Honor
19. Stick It
20. The Final Countdown
21. Risky Business
22. The Girl Next Door
23. Just Friends
24. The Sure Thing
25. Jumper
26. Hard Candy
27. Head Over Heels
28. Lord Of War
29. Rambo
30. Son Of Rambow
There are more, however, but
I mainly listed ones which aren’t as well known as most movies.
It’s unlikely that many have seen most of them.
Oh, and I will having at least one viewing party toward the end of this
year with some models, actors, and filmmakers. That viewing party will
be for the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, and will be used for the
official 2009 review of the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival. I may
even have gathering for video games, since I have the largest video game
collection in Florida (to my knowledge), but that has nothing to do with
films, so I won’t go into more detail here.
Expect me to cover the movie nights and other film-relevant get-togethers
here and on Tampa Bay Film, with full write-ups including photographs
and video. The coverage will be for those who are on the outside looking
in and wishing that they could have been there. Who’s that actress,
and who’s that model? They’ll only know you if you were there,
or only if I were to make an introduction and refer them to you.
As I told someone recently at a film set, I have more to offer some people
in the Tampa film scene than they have to offer me. That’s why I
don’t have to play politics, and freely speak my mind. They need
me a lot more than I need them.
Oh, and before I go, here’s another update: Tampa Bay Film will
see a large update as early as Monday. The advanced Tampa film scam analysis
database will be operational and will launch, the site layout will be
updated, and my latest interview where I give my take on Tampa indie film
will be posted. It’s going to be good!
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