Hey Folks.. this is the final report on the Cine-Vegas Film Festival that ended saturday night.
I have to say that it was the most exciting & enjoyable 10 days I have ever experienced. There was a long list of films & shorts for the entire 9 days of the festival itself and 10 of the most incredible parties that I have ever attended. The festival is sponsored by Robin Greenspun, wife of Dan Greenspun who owns Greenspun Media, Cox Cable and much more and Chaired by the great Dennis Hopper. I was lucky enough to meet all three of them and found them all to be some of the nicest people I ever met. Dennis was incredibly gracious and made it a point to compliment the poster exhibit. I had wanted to meet him.. and when I did I was on cloud 9. I also met Rob Zombie, Steve Mahone who directed a film called Radiant and all of his actors (they listened to my comments & even applauded my suggestions of certain changes to the film, which they said mostly made sense & they were going to do a re-edit & look at it). I became friends with child actor George Foghorn Winslow, who had intro'd me to Dennis Hopper and even had a poster lifted from the exhibit by actor Ethan Embry (no, he has not returned it. Thank heaven he didnt have good taste as he only took Vegas Vacation ((Kevin, I'm glad you sold me duplicates!)), Johnny Brenden, Rhonda fleming and others. Of the many films I saw.... Devil's Rejects which had it's 2nd premiere at the festival was hands down the best movie shown and I recommend it to everyone on this list. This film will be a big hit. If Natural Born Killers was an acid trip, Devil's Rejects is a heroin overdose. Oh My God.. a 10 minute short by John Bryant. ..a guy comes home to find his wife stabbed & son shot, proceeds to contaminate the evidence, stab his wife again, shoot his son's corpse by accident and be seen from outside by a neighbor holding the bloody butcher knife after removing it from his wife's chest, gets sent to the electric chair & burns like a roman candle while the viewer's look on in horror and all through the film the dialogue is "oh my god.oh my god.oh my god.oh my god......" By the way, it is totally a comedy & for 9 of the films 10 minutes the entire audience was rolling in the aisles .. http://www.johnbryantproductions.com/ I also saw Viva Las Vegas on the big screen & enoyed it more than ever. Saturday night, being the final night was headlined by the world premiere of George Romero's 4th "dead" film with Land of the Dead. Well, I'm sorry to be the bringer of bad news folks, but it is far from a blockbuster movie, however it will make lots of money. The 93 minute story here could have easily been done in 15 as just one part of a better film and though it was at least enjoyable, it might only rank 5-6 on a scale of ten while Devil's Rejects would easily rank 9+ Devil's Rejects was in my opinion, the film of the festival the parties..... I can't tell you what it's like to see movies, hang with movie stars & then go party with them also. I have no doubt the 10 parties cost the Greenspuns 500K-1mil. Probably closer to the top. Sushi bars, cutting boards, huge pastry setups, hors deurves, caviar. Pedestal dancers, performers, liquor flowing like streams... each night the parties were at one of the hot night clubs in town. Whiskey Beach at Green Valley Ranch, Light at the Bellagio, Tangerine at Treasure Island, Skin at the Palms, Rain at the Venetian, VooDoo Lounge atop the Rio, a roped off section of the Fremont Street Experience downtoan where Rhonda Fleming was awarded Tiffany earrings and a huge trophy while surrounded by 100 Folies Begere dancers (Rhonda opened the Tropicana back in 1959 and is also the grandmother of Johnny Brenden, owner of Brenden theatres) and the closing party saturday night was at Curve at the Alladin. These are the hottest spots in town. All in all.. this was such great fun all week it was bitter sweet to see the show close. Bitter because I want more.. Sweet because now I can sleep & get back to work I can't wait until next year when they want me to expand the exhibit.. so watch here for other related news during the year. Rich================ Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
