DISCUSSINGFILM: IMPORTANT MOVIE NEWS

Hello Friends and Movie Minders, Will Menaker here to do some quick SELF PROMO for you. Over the course of a decade of doing Chapo, I’ve talked about many, many movies—some good, some bad, some masterpieces, others made by Ben Shapiro—but all those movies have one thing in common: I’m not in them. Well, I’m here today to change that and finally talk about one that I am in: the short film ee directed by Heather Landsman which is having its New York premiere at this year’s New York Film Festival, screening on October 7th, 8th, and 12th at Film at Lincoln Center.

ee stars myself, Abby Griffith, and Isobel Fox. When I was asked to appear in this picture I had two questions: how much? And what’s my character? I was told my character is a cross between Otacon from the Metal Gear Solid games and Joe Pantoliano’s character from the Wachowski’s BOUND, and after they told me that, cut the budget and let go of a few of the original cast to meet my rate, I said YES.

We filmed it earlier this year at the comics and collectibles store in the Columbus Circle subway station and based on my extensive experience on film sets and working with directors, I can say of Heather Landsman, this young lady has got “it.” 

One critic describes Heather and ee as “the first US filmmaker I know of to take explicit inspiration from Hideaki Anno's live-action work, resulting in an immediately distinctive lo-fi/hi-energy aesthetic. It's a chunky-security-camera-eye-view of a would-be shoplifter whose desire for a Metal Gear Solid figurine rapidly mixes with her desire for the store's parodically seductive clerk.” 

So if you want to see me in a movie about Metal Gear Solid and the eroticism of being surveilled come check out Film at Lincoln Center this week, information on showtimes in the episode description. And if you can’t make it to the NYFF this week, it will be screening at 19 Alamo Drafthouse locations across the country on November 11th in front of screenings of Muscle Distribution’s Crocodile Dose as part of their Weird Wednesday series.