Sorry, Thanks at BAMcinemaFEST in Brooklyn

From Dia Sokol:

SORRY, THANKS will have its New York premiere at BAM in June, as part of the new BAMcinemaFEST line-up. Tickets have just gone on sale through the BAM website!

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 @ 9:30 PM
BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(Q&A to follow the screening)

Tickets are available here: http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1215

About SORRY, THANKS:
The story: Disaster looms when Kira sleeps with the disheveled Max. Max in turn decides to dabble in two new pursuits: an obsessive-tending interest in Kira, and (more fleetingly) in solving the mystery of whether he may in fact be an ass. From Dia Sokol (producer of Mutual Appreciation) in her feature directorial debut, SORRY, THANKS marks a major return for Wiley Wiggins (Dazed and Confused and Waking Life) and also stars Andrew Bujalski (Mutual Appreciation, Hannah Takes the Stairs), newcomer Ia Hernandez, and Kenya Miles in a remarkably honest debut performance. SORRY, THANKS charts turmoil, deep fallibility, and the wreckage of self-delusion. In a laughy kind of way.
Featuring: Wiley Wiggins, Kenya Miles, Andrew Bujalski, Ia Hernandez

Check out TRAILER, CAST, PICS on the SORRY, THANKS website: www.sorrythanksfilm.com

Since premiering at the SXSW Film Festival in March, SORRY, THANKS has received a great critical response:

"The script should circulate among Hollywood studios looking to break that awful 'bromance' formula ..."
—IndieWIRE

"A uniquely moral film, but also a very funny one ... Wiley Wiggins gives something of a minor miracle of a comic performance."
—Spout

"A sidelong charmer."
—LA Times

About BAMcinemaFEST:
BAMcinemaFEST runs June 17 — July 2 and is an all-new festival (replacing BAM's previous "Sundance at BAM" programming), including shorts, retrospectives, Q&As galore, and an incredible line-up of some of the "best of" narrative & doc features on this year's festival circuit. SORRY, THANKS will be playing as part of the "New Films" program.

IndieWIRE article on BAMcinemaFEST: http://www.indiewire.com/article/nyc_to_welcome_bamcinemafest_with_june_debut/

Check out the full BAMcinemaFEST program here: http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1193

As always, thanks so much for your continued support of the film ... hope to see you at BAM in June!

Please come out and see us!

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The Teaser trailer for District 9, produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Neill Blomkamp (from his 2005 short, 'Alive in Joberg') looks like it could be an example of naturalistic acting and documentary footage turning what could have been a cheesy 'Alien Nation' remake into something unique and affecting. Blomkamp's short is sort of interesting (despite an unfortunate and over-long effects shot showing an altercation between some soldiers and a mech-suited alien that looks like it was recorded directly out of the game Half Life 2). The trailer looks much more fully realized though, and I'm interested in the online ad campaign that goes with the movie, including a site called "math from outer space" that makes you jump through some math questionairre hoops before presumably taking you to some plot goodies related to the movie. I'll be dissapointed if this turns out to be some kind of cheesy action movie.

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"You won't want to see it twice".

That's exactly what I wanted to hear.
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Taking a fresh look at Henson's TV shows and movies 20 years later -- now possible thanks to a terrific new Northwest Film Center retrospective playing throughout May -- I realized that Henson accomplished much the same thing with the Muppets that Charles M. Schulz accomplished with 'Peanuts' and Chuck Jones accomplished with Looney Tunes. Henson controlled a commercially profitable set of characters that somehow managed to reflect his soul, humor and philosophy, did it across several different media, and pulled it off for decades. And the fact that he was producing, writing, directing and performing in projects this technically complex is jaw-dropping. Imagine George Lucas not only directing 'Star Wars' but also playing Luke Skywalker and Han Solo and building all the models, and you're starting to appreciate what Henson pulled off with regularity for 30-plus years.

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This is pretty awesome, instead of hacking up another Casio SK1, why not try out this 8-bit sampler kit that was actually built to be bent, but with a clock that stays accurate (unless you specifically want it to glitch) and fully implemented midi in and out without extra hacks. I am totally going to get one.
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