Cahiers du cinéma: my most anticipated movie for 2014.

Lawrence asks me from time to time if there are any movies I’m looking forward to in the coming year.

Generally, my response is the same: I don’t pay that much attention to what’s coming six months from now, so I don’t have any anticipated movies in my queue. I don’t start looking forward to something until I hear about it and hear reviews (or even gossip) about it, which usually takes place maybe a month or so before the movie actually opens.

But now I have an exception. Or, to put it another way…

Holy crap! They’ve made a movie out of Charlie Victor Romeo!

I was lucky enough to see the stage version when it came through Austin. I’m glad I went, but I fully understand A.O. Scott’s comment that “It is also one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen.” The stage version was…intense. So intense that the cast would come out after the show and have a discussion with the audience; I think this was to help both sides decompress.

Right now, it is only playing in New York. I’ve signed up for their mailing list and am hoping for an email with an Austin date sooner or later. To give you some idea about how excited I am: I’m even willing to relax my strict “Alamo Drafthouse only” policy for this movie.

(And RoadRich, if you’re out there, I want you to come with me when I go see it.)

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2 Responses to “Cahiers du cinéma: my most anticipated movie for 2014.”

  1. Charlie Victor Romeo says:
    January 31, 2014 at 2:26 pm

    Thank you so much… Google Alerts is a wonderful thing when you are DIY self-distributing a film… The next couple of weeks are critical as we open the film in NY and LA… We’d love to screen the film the Alamo… and hopefully enough people call and ask ’em when it’s going to play there 😉

    Our performances in Austin were among my favorites… as well as our proximity to the now closed(?) University of Texas Human Factors Research Project where the science of Crew Resource Management was invented, dare I say.

    Follow us @CVRPerformance and on that demonic Facebook thing and we hope to see you soon.

    Cheers,
    Bob Berger
    Director, Charlie Victor Romeo

  2. stainles says:
    January 31, 2014 at 5:18 pm

    Thank you for commenting, Mr. Berger. I assume it would help if I called up the Alamo and begged them? Do you think a few boxes of Thin Mints might seal the deal? (I have a Girl Scout in the family. I can hook them up.)

    I subscribed to the mailing list. Will you be using that or Twitter to let people know when CVR is playing in their city?