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Will Oldham on Mushrooms with Caveh Zahedi

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Mike Jones points to the above teaser for Tripping with Caveh, which he describes as “a nifty series in the making from I‘m a Sex Addict director Caveh Zahedi.” As the teaser explains, Tripping with Caveh did start out conceptually as the first in a series, allegedly inspired by John Lurie’s Fishing With John, but it ultimately became a single 30-minute short film, in which the filmmaker ate chocolate-coverage magic mushrooms with Will Oldham. The film was released in 2004––two years before the similarly-vibed Oldham vehicle Old Joy hit the festival circuit––and is now available for rental via GreenCine.

In addition to the above trailer of sorts, there’s a clip from the film, of Caveh egging Oldham on to eat the mushrooms, on Zahedi’s web site.

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Ronald Bronstein gets recognized.

By Joe Swanberg posted 1 year ago

Ronald Bronstein

When I head to NY in a few days to finish the remaining production on the first season of Butterknife, I will not find Ronald Bronstein. He will be in Austin, TX, attending the already sold-out screening of his multiple-award winning film, Frownland, which hours ago claimed a victory at the Gotham Awards for “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.”

A few years ago, Caveh Zahedi called this award a backhanded compliment, after receiving it for I Am a Sex Addict, and I’m not sure I disagree. But in Ronnie’s case, it’s just the beginning of a wave of attention he will be receiving over the next year for his film. He worked on Frownland for several years before presenting it at SXSW in March, and the 9 months it has taken everyone to catch up will have been worth the wait, as he should never have to suffer another rejection letter from a cowardly Festival programmer who needs external validation to justify presenting this excellent film to an out-of-shape audience.

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