Yesterday was travel day for Mark and Gen and today is travel day for me, so I figured this was a good time for a short blogging break from Sundance talk and ruminations on terminal coffee sponsorships. Last week, Mark and I checked out a special work in progress sneak preview of Full Battle Rattle at Thom Powers' Stranger Than Fiction series and we both loved the films. Co-Directed by Jesse Moss (who directed the super-fun festival hit doc Speedo, which has nothing to do with bathing suits) and Tony Gerber, Full Battle Rattle is about life inside the US Army's Iraq simulation in California's Mojave Desert from the perspective of the Iraqi-American civilians who work there as "role players" and the US soldiers who train there. I'll write more about it later, but for now I'll just say I found it really fascinating and surprisingly thoughtful, insightful and understated for a film with so much (simulated) violence and action. They edited back at our home base in the Old American Can Factory, making it the 3rd hot new doc to come out of our Gowanus compound in as many years (King Corn was also edited at the Factory, as was Carl Deal and Tia Lessin and which premieres at Sundance in a couple of days--thanks to Mark for reminding me). No New York premiere announced yet for Full Battle, but who knows what might happen...?
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