{"id":26261,"date":"2011-08-18T12:53:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=26261"},"modified":"2011-08-18T12:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:53:56","slug":"on-row-three-the-future-in-print-and-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/on-row-three-the-future-in-print-and-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"On Row Three: The Future in Print and Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I<\/span> forget sometimes that not everyone who follows me here may read Row Three<\/a> as well (and vice versa, but that’s a different thing), so I’ll try to remember to put up a note whenever I post something major over there. Mostly all I’ve had time to post over there are the weekly Film on TV and DVD Triage posts anyway, which I crosspost here as well. But this week I guested on the Row Three Cinecast<\/a>, one of three podcasts the site hosts, led by Andrew and Kurt. We talked about Miranda July’s The Future<\/em>, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block<\/em>, John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard<\/em>, as well as various other things we watched over the past week. It’s a pretty lengthy, informal podcast – nice to throw on in the car or on the train if you have a long commute.<\/p>\n

I also wrote a full review of The Future<\/em> published last week; here’s an excerpt of that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nFor some reason it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to believe that The Future is only Miranda July\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second feature, and that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been six years since her previous one, Me and You and Everyone We Know. That film gathered huge success on the festival circuit and among indie film audiences with its particular brand of twee quirkiness \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a quirkiness that fits in with the Sundance crowd but rings a little truer, a little deeper. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been busy with short films, performance art, short stories, and spoken word recordings in between, and even though I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen or heard a whole lot of that work, you can feel it in this film. It feels like an organic outgrowth of July as a writer and performer; not like a long-overdue follow-up to a successful film but merely the way this particular story needed to express itself, so she made a film rather than a book or a performance piece. Because though it would be easy for naysayers to dismiss July as merely quirky, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tapping into some very real and meaningful places in the lives of the now thirty-something middle-class artistic-minded people she writes about and to some degree represents.<\/p>\n

The Future begins with a narrative framing device that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s likely to offput many \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was my least favorite part of the film, though I did like much of the actual narration as written. The narrator is a cat, voiced by July in the most gratingly annoying voice she could come up with and visually represented by a pair of paws. Paw-Paw is a stray cat that July\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actual character Sophie and her boyfriend Jason rescued and are planning to adopt when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out of quarantine at the vet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. But Sophie and Jason aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready for the responsibility and decide they need to do everything they always wanted to do in the thirty days before they go to pick Paw-Paw up. On the surface, it seems like a fairly silly plot, but July is deep in metaphor in this film (and will get deeper), using Paw-Paw as a catalyst to energize Sophie and Jason out of their complacency in decent but unfulfilling jobs with the realization that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting into their thirties and haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really even started to do the things they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d always planned to to in the future.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the full review on Row Three<\/a><\/div>\n
Listen to Cinecast Episode 225: We Saw the Future<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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