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It’s different for Matt
It’s different for Matt
In the vast world of movie blogs, I can only commit to reading a few with any regularity. One of them — partly to get locally relevant news, partly because I like the guy — is written by SXSW programmer Matt Dentler. (See http://blogs.indiewire.com/mattdentler.)
I particularly enjoy taking a peek at Matt’s journal when I’m knee-deep in a festival. That’s because, although he may be going to as many movies as I am, he doesn’t have to run back to his hotel and write reviews of each one. Instead, he goes to the best parties, hangs out with festival cognoscenti, and wheel-deals his way into new bookings for his own festival. While I’m recovering from writing three reviews in a sitting, and trying to marshal my thoughts on a fourth, I can dip into Matt’s world and see what I’m missing.
Plenty of other sites offer the vicarious partygoing, but too many are obsessed with what actor was there, how good the food was, what the meat-market scene was like, and so on. With Dentler, even the occasional hint of hedonism traces back to pure movie-love.
While Matt and other moving/shaking sorts create tomorrow’s movie scene today, here are two highlights of my fest so far:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=9804
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=9744
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By Janet
September 12, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this
I feel like I shouldn’t use the use “sweet” but that’s exactly what this is. A wonderfully sweet tribute all around.