- That wacky Brian Lynch character wrote us a nice little note in his typical nutty fasion last night to fill us in on the status of Big Helium Dog. As of yesterday, they’ve got the first seven pages of the script edited and ready to go, amounting to “eight an’ a half minutes of fun and merriment.” (Sorry, could’t resist quoting Brian on that one…) Anyway, he also mentioned that our scene(s) with Kevin are still intact and you can see us in frame, clear as day, which is really cool! Whether this will make the final cut remains to be seen, but Brian says our chances look good. We’ll be calling Brian as editing and post-production continues to get you all the latest on the film. Seems like everything’s just grand for now, though.
Archive for September 29th, 1997
Major Updates At “Cursors Askew”
- Steve Rettinger, our resident graphics guru and all-around swell guy, gave us a shout to inform us that he’s done a major overhaul to his Cursors Askew Webpage, the home of those spectacular dancing Jay and Silent Bob Windows cursors. He’s added some great stuff here, including Mallrats icons and some custom Windows Startup/Shutdown screen packs (courtesy of himself, Davebo, and Damon Schmidt. You regular News Askewers may have seen this stuff before, but now it’s all here on one page, so we suggest you follow the link and check it all out to make sure your collection is complete…Enjoy!
Site-Related Stuff: New Home? Trip Part 2?
Most of the deals we tried to work out for more webspace and a dedicated site to house this ever-growing monstrosity have fallen though, so we’re continuing to entertain outside offers for a new server to host News Askew & Drinks Askew. We’ll need at least a few megs of disk space to start, a reliable server, and an open FTP line in so we can put in updates at all the crazy hours of the day and night. PLEASE contact us if you think you can help out!
Finally, if you enjoyed the Rutgers summary, let us know, and we’ll see about putting up a “sequel” of sorts with some more Q&A if we get enough requests for it, since it does take a bit of time. Thanks for shopping with us today.
Chasing Amy LaserDisc Running Commentary Recorded
- Vincent posted a message concerning the laserdisc commentary that was recorded on Saturday. Itstead of trying to paraphrase it here, we figured we’d just show you the post, since it pretty much says it all:
I just wanted to drop a note and say that we recorded the commentary track for the “Chasing Amy” Criterion laserdisc yesterday afternoon. Jason Lee and Joey Lauren Adams couldn’t make it to the session due to scheduling conflicts, but Kevin, Scott Mosier, Ben Affleck, Jason Mewes, associate producer and indie adviser extraordinaire Bob Hawk, Miramax executive John Gordon,and myself all participated. We had a lot of fun (especially Ben Affleck) and I think you guys will all get a kick out of the commentary track- it’s both informative AND entertaining, and there’s nary a lull to be heard. It was also my first chance to see the Criterion laserdisc transfer (we watched a 3/4″ videotape copy of the transfer while recording the track) , and it looks quite good. It’s letterboxed at about 1.85:1 (AMY was shot in Super-16, which has a 1.66:1 aspect ratio on the negative, but the framing was composed for a blow-up to 1.85) and the framing actually looks better than it did to me in all the theatrical screenings that I saw, which tended to be too tightly cropped in some scenes at the top of the frame (the scene in the train station comes to mind). The color transfer also looks quite nice, and the only possible ‘objectionable’ element is some visible film grain in some shots, but this is due to the film’s Super-16 origins rather than a problem with the transfer. I was also talking to the folks at Criterion about the extras on the disc, and it’ll be loaded – AC-3 sound, deleted scenes, trailers, the electronic press kit, and some other goodies that were taped yesterday. Hell, I can hardly wait MYSELF- this is going to be one awesome laserdisc.
Well, there you have it, folks…You know we’ll be among the first in line to buy a copy! Stayed tuned to News Askew for the official LD release date…