Blamblog - Brett Lamb's Blog

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Here Come the Hot Docs!

Honest Ed's

I dropped in to the Hot Docs CBC Newsworld Advance Box Office (at Honest Ed's, on Bloor) and found Alan Black (Strongman, Beautiful & Deranged: The Song of the Yukon) hard at work.

BLAMB: Did you see the screening schedule? It's in the current issue of NOW.

BLACK: Yeah. Looks good!

BLAMB: The printer went the extra mile to get the cover image printed properly. I owe Nicolas a bottle of pop.

BLACK: Or a beer.

BLAMB: Or some French onion soup!

BLACK: So, what do you think of the docs that were selected?

BLAMB: I don't know what the programmers were thinking. How do they decide which films to accept and which ones to reject?

BLACK: Did you submit a film?

BLAMB: No, but Todd, the boxfit instructor at my gym worked on a film that was submitted ... AND REJECTED!

BLACK: There are more than ten films submitted for every one that's selected. What was his film?

BLAMB: Naked Slam.

BLACK: Naked Slam?

BLAMB: It's about Carmen Electra's Naked Women's Wrestling League. They're women.

And they wrestle. Naked.

BLACK: That's taking the "hot" in Hot Docs a little too literally.

BLAMB: I'll say. There are just these tiny, little useless thumbnails on the NWWL website, so who knows how hot anybody really is ... oh, and pictures of Carmen Electra smoking a cigar.

BLACK: And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

BLAMB: I certainly hope so. From the pics on the NWWL myspace page, it looks like Todd plays some kind of Gimp.

BLACK: Did you go to the press conference?

BLAMB: Yeah, it was at Revival, again. It was a chilly morning, so it was good to be warm inside with a big cup of coffee.

BLACK: It was busy?

BLAMB: Packed! The place was crawling with media looking for filmmakers to interview.

BLACK: Did anyone interview you?

BLAMB: Pardon?

BLACK: Did anyone interview you?

BLAMB: .... [ blinks ] NUTS! Nobody ever interviews me! I've got something to say. I've got thoughts and ideas. Some of them are my own!

BLACK: Do any films stand out for you?

BLAMB: Zoo is very good. It's a film about women who wrestle horses, naked.

BLACK: No it's not.

BLAMB: Well, it almost is. A any rate, it's an excellent film. The subject of King Corn also interests me. It examines the overproduction of corn. My first summer job was detasseling corn.

BLACK: You detasseled corn?

BLAMB: Sometimes I think the corn detasseled me.

BLACK: Ok, what else?

BLAMB: Of course, I'm excited about Alan's film, Lovable. Maria and Anita are in it. You wouldn't know them, they're not on facebook.

BLACK: So, are you going to get some work done for me? Or are you going to go and write on your blog?

BLAMB: Oh, come on. What do you think?