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 Post subject: Hey OPA!, and other NYC folks GO SEE MY BOY'S FILM
PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:37 pm 
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From an email:

Dear Friends,

A documentary by a friend of mine from Texas (Tommy
Davis) is showing in the East Village at Two Boots
Pioneer Theater for a week. Below I have provided
more info than necessary, in hopes of persuading you
to go see it. My thoughts on the film are in a review
I wrote on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... B0009GX1QA

"Mojados: Through the Night"
http://www.mojadosmovie.com/screenings/
Two Boots Pioneer Theater
155 E 3rd St (between Ave A & Ave
Wed 5/18 - Tue 5/24, 9pm

Tickets are $9
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/monthly ... tm#Mojados

The Trailer
http://www.mojadosmovie.com/trailer/

The Story
http://www.mojadosmovie.com/story/

An article about the making of the film
http://www.apple.com/pro/video/davis/

South by Southwest Film Festival
AUDIENCE AWARD
Austin, Texas
March 2004
Arizona International Film Festival
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Tucson, Arizona
April 2004
San Antonio Underground Film Festival
GRAND PRIZE
San Antonio, TX
June 2004
Kansas International Film Festival
AUDIENCE AWARD
Kansas City, Kansas
September 2004
Woodstock Film Festival
Woodstock, New York
October 2004
Mill Valley Film Festival
Mill Valley, CA
October 2004
Santa Fe Film Festival
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Santa Fe, NM
December 2004
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Asheville, NC
January 2005

The soundtrack is by Sin Panache, a band made up of
other friends of mine from McAllen, TX.

The DVD will be released in late July on Amazon,
Netflix, etc. But this is your chance to see it on
the big screen.
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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:41 pm 
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review in the onion today...

http://www.theonionavclub.com/cinema/in ... e=4120&r=3


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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:44 pm 
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Fuck Yeah. I saw it at SXSW last year, and have done some press stuff for him. He's a good guy who is going to be a monster in films one day.

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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)


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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:45 pm 
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Hey! I have lotsa familia in McAllen, though, they're not mojados.


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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:51 pm 
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mmm...mojitos...


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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2005 11:06 am 
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Bump, cos this is tonite and you NYCers really should go.

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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)


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 Post subject: MOJADOS
PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2005 4:36 pm 
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THANKS SENATOR - PEOPLE GO SEE IT, IT"S GOOD I SWEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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