{"id":10528,"date":"2021-08-11T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?p=10528"},"modified":"2021-08-11T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:07:33","slug":"a-word-from-our-press-marketing-manager-8-11-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/a-word-from-our-press-marketing-manager-8-11-21\/","title":{"rendered":"A WORD FROM OUR PRESS & MARKETING MANAGER - 8\/11\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey Ragtagsters,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I grow older in years (and yet newer every day), I\u2019ve noticed I become more and more particular. I\u2019m becoming the type of person who refuses to allow people and experiences to waste my time\u2014in fact, I get irritated when I feel they do. I walked out on a movie for the first time in my life recently because I felt the filmmaker wasn\u2019t doing the legwork to warrant my attention. Pretentious, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I will not utter the name of the film I walked out on, I will recommend a film that absolutely did not waste my time.\u00a0Leos Carax\u2019s Annette<\/em><\/a>\u00a0made me realize I hadn\u2019t felt so thrilled while watching a movie in a long, long time. Certainly I have loved movies over the past year and I wouldn\u2019t even say this was my favorite among them. So what did\u00a0Annette<\/em>\u00a0achieve? It tickled me. To death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Annette<\/em> is a film I won\u2019t be surprised if some people walk out on. Carax, along with the pop-duo-turned-screenwriters Ron and Russel Mael of Sparks, make choices<\/em>. Nothing about this film is conventional and for some it may even be upsetting. For others, it will be pure whimsy. For everyone, it will be a ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam Driver continues his track record of portraying troubled, oddball men with deep capacities for love and unfortunate penchants for violence. The storyline is as dramatic as an opera should be (very) and the lyrics are often so simple you find yourself wondering if it\u2019s all meant to be a joke. Over and over the protagonist lovebirds state their feelings in song to the point where you no longer believe them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Still, the love story is beautifully shot and the more than 2-hour movie is paced in a way that, at least for me, didn\u2019t make it feel quite so long. I was enraptured by this study of a self-deprecating standup comedian (think Bo Burnam\u2019s comedy style meets Russell Brand\u2019s sensibility) in love with a pixie-like opera singer who dies on stage night by night. I refuse to give you spoilers, but the two birth an incredible little girl, and Driver\u2019s insecure and intense brand of love is put to the test.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The staff at Ragtag Cinema is completely divided on this film. And that\u2019s how we like it<\/em>. Cinema isn\u2019t a guarantee. Hollywood blockbusters like their formulas. They beat out their storylines with precision because audiences, whether they know it or not, can feel and anticipate the beats of a story. The problem is, when a movie comes off a bureaucratic Burbank-approved conveyor belt, we often stop being challenged. It\u2019s not to say I didn\u2019t enjoy the new Space Jam, or that all major studio films lack substance. It\u2019s that when we challenge ourselves with less conventional material, we grow. And whether we like the film or not, we allow filmmakers with much more creative autonomy to take us on a journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know about you, but I want to see artists take risks. We vote with our dollars, and I implore you to vote for risky films. You may adore it, you may feel rage. Either way, you will take part in fighting for a world where bold films continue to get funding and distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annette<\/em> plays through Thursday, August 12. Take a deep breath and spend your night in a way that\u2019s not only interesting, but impactful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love each other so much<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LeeAnne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Ragtagsters, As I grow older in years (and yet newer every day), I\u2019ve noticed I become more and more particular. I\u2019m becoming the type of person who refuses to allow people and experiences to waste my time\u2014in fact, I get irritated when I feel they do. I walked out on a movie for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[79,86,87,88,89],"class_list":["post-10528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news1","tag-annette","tag-leos-carax","tag-press-marketing-manager","tag-ragtag","tag-sparks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}