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'The Road' is Expanding On December 18 and Here are the Target Cities (from RopeOfSilicon)
I obviously don't do this for most films, or really any films for that matter, but considering I alerted you to the markets The Road would first be hitting on its November 25 release I figured I may as well keep you up-to-date as the information continued to roll in. And guess what, information has rolled in.
On December 18, The Road will be expanding and I have been told by a Weinstein Co. rep they are targeting 53 additional markets around the US. Now when I say "targeting" that means they are still working on confirming theatres. So while your city's name may be on this list it still isn't 100-percent confirmed.
Cleveland
Indianapolis
Hartford & New Haven
Charlotte
Raleigh-Durham
Nashville
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Columbus, OH
Greenvll-Spart-Ashevll-And
Salt Lake City
Memphis
Norfolk-Portsmth-Newpt Nws
West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce
Buffalo
Louisville
Albuquerque-Santa Fe
Providence-New Bedford
Las Vegas
Fresno- Visalia
Albany-Schenectady-Troy
Little Rock-Pine Bluff
Richmond-Petersburg
Knoxville
Wichita-Hutchinson Plus
Des Moines-Ames
Honolulu
Tucson(Nogales)
Omaha
Paducah-C. Gird-Harbg-Mt Vn
Shreveport
Syracuse
Rochester, NY
Spokane
Springfield, MO
Portland-Auburn
Ft. Myers-Naples
Champaign&Sprngfld-Decatur
Chattanooga
Madison
Davenport-R. Island-Moline
Burlington-Plattsburgh
Colorado Springs-Pueblo
Lincoln&Hstngs-Krnyplus
Charleston, SC
Springfield-Holyoke, MA
Tallahassee-Thomasville
Monterey-Salinas
Columbia-Jefferson City
Gainesville
Charlottesville
Bend, OR
Puerto Rico
For more on The Road click here and for my review you can read that here. The first list of markets I published can be found here, and the script just went online, which is detailed further right here.
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"The Road," distributed by The Weinstein Company, was supposed to be one of the potential stand-out films this holiday season. Based on the award-winning Cormac McCarthy novel (he also wrote "No Country for Old Men"), the film was to be wide released Thanksgiving weekend, according to information on reliable Internet sources including ticket seller Fandango. The problem? The information was incorrect. As many people throughout the U.S. Are learning this weekend, "The Road" starring Viggo Mortensen is not to be found practically anywhere. It is not showing in Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont. The closest theater where the movie can be seen in most of New England is Boston.
Similar situations exist around the country. Don't let yourself be denied the opportunity to see this film. Though it is bleak it is also one of the most honest love stories ever told, about generations and hope, about what it means to be human, to be humane. Write to or call your local theatre groups, distributors, university film clubs and departments. Create demand. Even if you feel it would be too difficult for you to see, help make it available for those in your area who want to see it, who need to.
I was fortunate enough to see it at Mill Valley Film Festival. I wish that you will be able to see it too. I have written to or called all my local theatres (my county and 9 counties around me), the university film departments and film clubs and repertory cinemas, and local film reviewers, because I believe that one voice crying in the wilderness can, eventually, be heard. Please join me.
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Went to the Mill Valley Film Festival tonight.
There is so much to say, and there are so few words to say it with.
Director John Hillcoat was there and spoke briefly before the showing. What a lovely man. So respectful of Cormac McCarthy's story, and the way it came to him. Courteous to the actors in the way he spoke of them. Grateful for being able to work in this medium of film, of storytelling. Appreciative that MVVF found a way to have the film as part of its opening night films. Thankful that we were all there for a 9:40pm screening.
His voice, when he spoke about Kodi- genuine respect, genuine care, genuine love.
The film: I'll talk more about it after its gone into as wide a release as it's going to. This, I'll say: I have never seen a more honest love story between parent and child. I've never seen a better filmic telling of a written tale. I've never seen so grim and sad a background bring to life the small things and large which make us humane, make us human. I've not felt this kind of hope in years.
It's technically perfect, from what I can tell. The acting is - it's remarkable. Everything I knew about them from the book, is in the film. The directing, the editing, the cinematography, costuming, set design and decoration, location scouting- to the last detail, perfect.
I don't expect it to win awards. It's --- people are scared of this world, this post-something world where it's down to who you brought with you inside yourself from before, and who you let yourself become, after, and what you leave of yourself with others. It is frightening to look at- but for me, it's more frightening not to look.
I want to be one of the good guys. I want to die carrying the fire.
I'm so very, very glad I saw this movie. I'll never see anything in my life the same way again.
It will always, always look better now, than it did before this evening.
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from Perceval Press: We wish our brother Floyd Red Crow Westerman a Continued Good Journey,
and thank him for making our own journeys better by his dignified and wise example. Pilamaya Kola!
Floyd Red Crow Westerman's activism, movie work, and musicianship. Thank you, Floyd, for carrying the fire.
"And I told them not to dig for uranium, for if they did, the children would die. They didn't listen, they didn't listen, they didn't listen to me. And I told them if the children die, there would be no keepers of the land. They didn't listen. And I told them if they destroy the sky, machines would come and soon destroy the land. They didn't listen... And I told them if they destroy the land, man would have to move into the sea. They didn't listen... And I told them if they destroy the sea -- they didn't listen..." -From the Floyd Westerman song "They Didn't Listen" as Westerman recited the lyric concluding his testimony in 1992 at the World Uranium Hearings in Salzburg, Austria. [from Wikipedia]
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"...significant portions of the testimony..." from the World Uranium Hearings.
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Floyd Westerman on Internet Radio
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