Movie Details
| Title: | Nightcrawler | |
| Director: | Dan Gilroy | |
| Year: | 2014 | |
| Genre: | Thriller | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.25.14 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.25.14 | Alamo South Lamar | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2014 Before this I watched a few episodes of an Australian comedy TV show called Danger 5 which was pretty damn funny in a gonzo over-the-top way. Then it was time for the closing night film: Nightcrawler. This was really good. I expected the story to go more in a desperate/creating-crime-scene direction but was happy with the angle that it took. Gyllenhaal's character is really great. The director also did a great Q&A which I've already forgot all the details of. The party was kind of lame though. They moved it from the Ghost Town at the last minute so it was in the courtyard outside, the lobby, the highball, and one of the theaters instead. I'd just spent all week feeling claustrophobic and pressed in like sardines in that damn space so the party felt like more of the same to me and I was over it immediately. Victor, Grant and I walked around back to look at the surviving You're Next mural then left pretty quickly. Plus I was getting a cold. A big lesson learned this year is that even when I CAN stay for the midnight, it's often better if I don't. The one slot I missed this year (Wednesday midnight) was for a movie I've heard was good (It Follows) and if I didn't have family coming in the very next day I probably would've pushed it and just been really sick through the weekend, but a lot of the midnights I did stay for weren't strong movies and getting more sleep would probably have done more good. Overall I thought the film programming was great this year, the organization took a few steps closer to great, and I loved seeing all the familiar faces again. However, I don't feel it was "special" in any way for the 10th anniversary, had some real nagging questions and problems with the theater renovation, and the Alamo menu is in real poor shape. I usually make it most of the way through the week before repeating favorite items but this year I was sick of the whole menu by day 3 and by the end it was just chicken strips (assuming they brought the sauce I had to ask for0 and pizzas. Everything else is way overpriced and just doesn't taste that good. It's a shame. So... my Top 5 this year: 1-Tokyo tribe 2-the astrologer 3-force majeur 4-john wick 5-nightcrawler My bottom five: 1-The stranger 2-Tusk 3-VHS Viral 4-Norway 5-Darkness by Day I'd say I liked 26 of the 34 things I saw though which is a pretty good ratio. |
