The screening is over and I’m experiencing the usual tangle of bittersweet emotions that I usually do after one of these things.
The screening went great. This was the first time I’ve seen SEX MACHINE in an actual movie theater and now that I have, it feels like a real movie instead of something living on my computer monitor. Thanks to everybody who came out. The response to the movie was great and the Dobie staff did a great job of accomodating us and making sure the sound was nice and loud. Even though I have spend the last week almost non-stop tweaking things, I still really enjoyed watching the movie with an audience.
It was also great seeing the handful of SEX MACHINE people who came in town. I wish all of you could have stayed longer. It seems like each time we reunite for one of these things, the bonds between us get tighter, deeper and more complicated.
I wish everybody could have made it, but particularly John Howell. His performance was generating all the buzz after the screening. This was an area of the film that I thought got overlooked a little bit after the OKC screening where the audience was hung up on Sheridan and John Stewart’s performances. Those guys are great and they get a lot of fun audience-pleasing stuff to do, but it’s John Howell that anchors the movie in such a smooth and self-assured way that you don’t even realize he’s doing it. I can’t count the number of people who came up to me to tell me that hes’ the “next SOMEBODY”. Which of course I fully believe.
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