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Sayonara, Sundance
Well, that was a thrilling few weeks there during which the Sundance Film Festival’s top brass considered Santa Fe for the future home of the fest—but Santa Fe didn’t make the final cut, as it were. “The selection committee was in awe of Santa Fe when they were here. They’re still buzzing about the trip, and that was nearly a month ago,” Santa Fe Film Office Director Jennifer LaBar-Tapia told SFR last week. “I don’t know what the deciding factor was as to why we didn’t get to the final three, but they did say that they’re looking forward to seeing how Santa Fe could be a fit with Sundance in another way.” So think of it like the Oscars, maybe, where it’s aparently an honor just to be nominated.
Special Screening
See that review for The Substance up there? Apparently it’s pretty dang good, and your pals at the Center for Contemporary Arts will host an early access screening at 7 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 18 (that’s the same day this issue of SFR drops). The film opens wide on Friday, Sept. 20.
That Guy from Ted Lasso... No, the Other Guy
The New Mexico Film Office recently announced that forthcoming New Mexico-shot film Hello Out There has wrapped. Starring Chloe Bennet from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Phil Dunster of Ted Lasso—not the Roy Kent guy, but the Jamie Tartt guy—the movie’s all about a fledgling journalist and her post-rehab cousin as they road trip across New Mexico. That’s kind of cool, because usually the studios film shit here and call it Texas. Still, are we wrong for feeling tired of the “found myself in New Mexico,” narrative? We don’t think so. The film is the directorial debut of filmmaker Otis Blum, and we like his name, so we’ll let it slide. “It’s a place that means a lot to me,” Blum told Deadline, “and it was so special to work with a primarily New Mexican crew telling a New Mexican tale.” We work with New Mexican people every day, and he’s not wrong about how they’re cool.
Life, Uh, Finds a way
PSA: The Jean Cocteau Cinema will screen 1993′s Jurassic Park on Friday, Sept. 20, and Saturday, Sept. 21. If by some miracle you don’t know, it’s about how dinosaurs are crazy and we shouldn’t bring them back to life. For real, though, the kitchen raptor scene is still so intensely good some 31 years later. Sorry for the spoiler, but like we said—it has been 31 years. Also? Torn-shirt Goldblum. Just saying. He’s all sweaty and stuff...just so you know.
