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Last Pictures

I spent Friday in The Village and as depressing as it was to pay ten dollars for a chocolate croissant and a black coffee, there was, as usual, some good stuff going on there. These guys, for instance, hosted a very well-choreographed screening of the short films they produced over the past year and followed up with a pretty sweet after party (Open bar!). The films themselves were probably more competent than brilliant, but Last Pictures has promise and even, gaahhh, a little bit of humility. At no point did any of the men of the hour parade around like giant tools even though they managed to pull something fairly impressive together… but that’s probably just because they don’t go to Harvard.

Chadd Harbold, in particular, is a name to look out for. His Dead and Lovely is visually stunning. The acting was lukewarm and the dialogue was, erm, kind of painful, but he’s on to something thematically and the aesthetic sense is really there.

Probably better than anything shown at the screening, though, is this little baby. It has all the makings of a viral success, one of which is an infant being wheeled into a bodega in an American Girl Doll wheelchair…

—Maryellen McGowan

September 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 pm

But perhaps you disagree

3 responses so far

  • [ # ] Roxanne — Sep 22, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    I’m so confused. Her disability is that she is too young to walk? What do we call that? Normalitis? Leaveittotime-pox?

  • [ # ] Maryellen McGowan — Sep 22, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    Yup. Her comedian father was so outraged at being informed that his child would not walk for a year that he let some NYU kids film her over the course of two years. But come on, the wheelchair, the wheelchair!!

  • [ # ] jenn — Sep 25, 2008 at 2:16 am

    So… for my film class we had to send our professor a short film by Friday. So I TOTALLY forget. Sunday night at like 1am I send him “Sophie Can Walk” because I go to Last Pictures by default and it’s the first one I watch and it has me in tears laughing… my professor LOVED it. He was asking me all about it, showed it in class, thought it was so funny AND said it was one of the better short films he’s seen. SO all in all, Last Pictures saved my life in that class. Good to be from Norwell.