Moving Catch Up

I have been in Internet Hosting Hell for the last week. I will not go into the shoddy and unreliable incompetence of my last web hosting company but I will just say that it takes a lot of major screw ups to make me go through the hell of changing services.



Here is some of the stuff I should have posted last week:

Cool Annie Screens for both Surf`s Up and Persepolis. Surf`s Up is major good film that suffered from too many other lesser penguin movies releasing first. I loved the hand held CGI camera work and the water spotted lens effects. This stuff is not easy. This Annie screener is a release DVD with the full extra features. That means Oscar winning short animation The Chubbchubbs. It is so good to have a copy. Also the new Chubbchubbs Christmas short. (Not as great at the original)



As for Persepolis it is a beautiful film of a very personal nature. Something that would never make it through the U.S. pipeline. This is a true screener, the first real screener of the year all the others being release DVDs. Persepolis comes complete with the For Your Consideration watermark. I love getting unreleased films.



Just got an email warning from my friend, sometimes editor and ad hoc technical advisor Eric Graf. He is very happy to get his hands on a copy of Persepolis (agreed on that count) but warns about the damage the crappy case it was shipped in can do to your valuable DVD. If anybody would know able DVD cases it is Eric. DVD editing and authoring is what he does.

Hi again!
I expect you have your screener of Persepolis in your hot little hands right now, or will very shortly.

If you post this score on your blog, you can do your readers a big favor by telling them to GET THE DISC OUT OF THAT PLASTIC FLIPPY THING AS CAREFULLY AS THEY CAN AND THEN NEVER, EVER, EVER PUT IT BACK IN!

Just some friendly advice from someone who has had to deal with these things (and their usually unplayable contents) way too many times. They scratch the discs when they flip 'em out, they don`t protect the discs `cause the sides cave in and rub, and they leech this oily residue that gets all over the disc and your hands. I had to wipe the stuff off my copy of Persepolis before I could get it to play smoothly.

I'm very grateful to Sony anyway. If you haven`t seen Persepolis yet, do so at once. I'm thrilled to have a copy! Movie night at the Graf`s this Christmas.

Eric

Thanks Eric. Hopefully the nameserver pointers will change soon so this will show at my address.