From CT Movies’ feedback:
Your review of Madison was excellent.
Why this movie was made is a mystery to me. “Miss Madison” just happened to be the winner the year the Gold Cup came to Madison [1971]. I remember sitting with a group of Hoosiers in Newport Beach, listening at the end of the event on Wide World of Sports. The announcers said it was the happiest day in the history of Madison.We all fell over in laughter.
The greatest day in the history of Madison happened in 1950 during the height of the real Hoosier Hysteria.The Madison Cubs defeated Indianapolis Tech, Marion, and Lafayette Jeff 67-44 to win the one-class state championship in basketball. Madison High didn’t have many more students than Milan (the team called “Hickory” in Hoosiers).
Madison is a beautiful and wealthy little city with great pride. Coalmines are nowhere in sight. People didn’t behave like the movie. The film is fiction, based on a true incident. You hit the nail on the head. Those of us who lived it congratulate you on your review.
– – from an old Madison Cub, long gone from Madison
Jeff, have you actually seen this film? I interviewed Scott a week ago, but I am told I won’t be able to see the film for myself for at least another week (after which, who knows, we might do a supplementary interview…).
Did Scott have his “talking points” yet? When I interviewed him, the studio had not yet told him what he could and could not say about certain things, so, combined with the fact that I had not yet seen the film, it was a pretty strange interview — there were questions I couldn’t ask, and answers he couldn’t give! But we somehow found more than an hour’s worth of things to talk about anyway!
Definitely a very passionate and articulate person.
This is one film that has definately been catching my eye. I have heard of several events where someone trying to either over zealously fast, exorcize demons, or whatever. I had an uncle who only ate oranges for like a year and refused to see doctors. Some strange ideas out there.
We didn’t get very specific about the film, and no, I haven’t seen it. Next week, I’m told. But I’m confident it will be worth seeing. Worst case scenario: Stimulating conversation fodder. Best case scenario: The first powerfully acted, challenging horror film in a long time.
I am so looking forward to this one! I love a good cerebral horror movie. Some notable ones in the last few years have been:
Se7en
Session 9
Blair Witch
Ring
Havent seen session 9 yet. just saw Devil’s Rejects. Sick. The movies that scare me are not the ones with aliens or monsters, but the ones that are possible and believable.
Hey Jeff, did you at least see Hellraiser: Inferno — Scott’s other directorial effort — before interviewing him? 🙂
Hey, I’ve seen “Land of Plenty,” so I’m ahead of most folks. 🙂 But no, I haven’t suffered the Inferno yet. After talking with him, though, I gotta say, I’m intrigued…