Uwe Boll disappointed, to put it mildly, in Kickstarter response
Boll recently posted a couple of profanity-laced tirades on YouTube — not a rare occurrence for him.
If Boll’s films were as entertaining as his rants, it would be hard to imagine them not being funded.
Morgan Spurlock’s new short-subject documentary, “Crafted,” premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival a couple of weeks ago, and it had a distinctly San Franciscan flavor.
Spurlock features the work of high-end craftspeople, including Nick Balla and Cortney Burns, co-chefs who manage the kitchen of Bar Tartine in the Mission District.
Everything you taste is an explosion in your mouth and in your mind.
“They used the whole thing — not a piece went to waste, from the feet to the snout,” Spurlock says.
Among the other highlights of the L.A. festival, several of which can be expected to dot fall and winter release schedules soon:
The poetic, Cuban remembrance of lost love, “Sin Alas”; the surprisingly tense and profound “Manson Family Vacation”; and the hilarious “Band of Robbers,” an update of “Huckleberry Finn” that plays like Mark Twain adapted by Wes Anderson and directed by the Coen brothers.
“The script was really good, but at the same time, it kind of freaked me out,” he says of the screenplay his friend Mark Duplass brought to him for the production company Scott and his wife, Naomi, had started.
Scott and “Orange Is the New Black’s” Taylor Schilling and their cinematic son find themselves at an extended playdate with another couple and their kid, and things take a turn toward “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.”
“It was a handmade, homemade thing we all did for love,” he says.