Friday, February 23, 2007
searchingforthewrongeyedjesus
http://searchingforthewrongeyedjesus.com/#
This may be an interesting piece of film to watch if you can find it. Shot in Concordia Parish & the South, it has scenes of Ferriday UPC which the reviewer, http://hardcountry.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/divine-guerrilla-scrapping-a-review-of-searching-for-the-wrong-eyed-jesus/
states: I think when you watch you’ll find it worth it. I don’t know if I agree
with Jim White that it’s a spiritual experience. If it is I think he’ll
have to write a Scripture to go with it. And then somebody at the
United Pentecostal Church we visit in the film will be sure and burn it
as heresy.
Be sure and watch the trailer, the small quicktime loads pretty fast. http://searchingforthewrongeyedjesus.com/ . Lotus you may see Bubba Drane showing off his shooting skills in the short trailer, it sure looks like him to me.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
30 comments:
Yep, Definitely Bro Howington, Juanita Bingham and others in the trailer.
Thank you Byron.Very intersting indeed.I will look for it on DVD.
Yep, me, too.
will take a look later. for now, i gotta take mama for a walk while maintenance fixes a tub faucet leak and sluggish toilet.
I have to watch the trailer again since the image went by too quickly for me to decide, but i'm thinking probably since ... If you read the "About the Film" it mentions much was filmed in Ferriday, and a few clicks more, it talks about Slim's Lounge (a biker bar/juke joint), which is, of course, owned by Bubba. :)
there are a lot of interesting links, quite entertaining like this quote from one of the musicians page:
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL HANDSOME FAMILY HOME PAGE.
MADE BY BRETT AND RENNIE.
(that's why it looks kind of crappy, but hell please don't e-mail us with your sales pitch
about how great you can make our website look. We like it crappy.)
anybody found the film?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000E1OI8U/ref=dp_olp_2/103-3595305-7941429
The film is in my Q at Netflix. Will arrive soon.
i will add it to my netflix and loan it to byron when i get it. will add it later today.
that would be a yes on the shooter.
got the dvd in and watched it. well worth watching just to see who all you know, including glenn and hubert lee mcglothin.
they spend a fair bit of time filming in ferriday. you'll recognize big johns, the little flea market in town - i was soooo glad the door was locked when they got out there, it's just a mess in there! - blackie's old bar which is bubba's now, the one on the strip where our trailer and blackie's was parked out back. they film services at the upc, so you're gonna recognize folks there too.
lee and i watched it together and enjoyed it, not bec it's a great film but bec we recognized so many people and places. i left it with lee bec she sd jack would want to see it and you, byron, could pick it up on saturday when you are there, as you're planning a visit then.
be sure to watch the extra footage fm the menu. get the envelope and jacket fm them so you can mail it back to netflix! enjoy. :)
I watched it today. fell asleep on the last few minutes. I'll watch it again with Debby.
Lee sd go ahead and mail this back when you've finished viewing it. No need to hold onto it.
Mama has a doctor appt tomorrow at 2pm and we have plenty of errands to take care of. Been outdoors most of today working in yard. Mama loves having the bench out there so she can enjoy the outdoors! Thanks so much!
SearchingfortheWrongEyedJesus
Warning: Southern curves ahead.
I found the movie interesting, with the images and music being quite familiar to me. (the music and song is kicking!) It made me realize just how southern I have become over the last thirty years, and how peculiar we must seem to the uninitiated.
I can’t tell you how many buses just like these we see in this quasi docudrama that I’ve personally seen abandoned in the woods, how many of these bar scenes I’ve witnessed, or, for that matter, how very many of these church services I myself have attended. The seeming deprivation of the towns and citizens portrayed here may make one wonder if southern God is born out of poverty and desperation indeed. Jim White demonstrates it well with his analogous ice cream cone; religious fanatics, criminals, and artists being squeezed to the fringes of these small towns. He is right about one thing though, it is definitely alive, and something you can feel, probably one of the reasons that I choose to come here and stay when I didn’t have to, the other being that some of these simple folks are now my in-laws and some are now ex-laws, like the shooter on the motorbike (thanks Lotus!). I know many of these filmed individuals on a first name basis.
Not everyone here talks like theas, with that long southern drawl. Of course, I may be the only exception, and for a very long time I didn’t think I fit in altogether, but, over the long haul, I have been accepted, and I love these people, and I couldn’t trade it now for a couple of million concrete city dwellers as neighbors.
The religious behavior seen here is very real and even the sinners and backsliders pay homage to it. It is deeply ingrained, and if southern God is born of poverty and desperation, so is a love of life, and a respect for fellow man. Just think about how much more desperate and fanatic people of other geographic locations and beliefs can be.
“.....So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design." Harry Crews.
I enjoyed it , too.
i finally watched it... last night. i enjoyed it. i found myself in it a lot.. the way that i grab a guitar and start playing to deal with my moods and such. The religious perspective on fanatics and more... really thought provoking.
i finally watched it... last night. i enjoyed it. i found myself in it a lot.. the way that i grab a guitar and start playing to deal with my moods and such. The religious perspective on fanatics and more... really thought provoking.
Glad you watched it finally! Certainly was worth the time to view.
Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus premiered at the IDFA festival (International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam) in November 2003. In The Netherlands the movie was screened from 26 February 2004 onwards in cinemas participating in the Docuzone programme. The movie opened in the UK on 28 June 2004 and was broadcast by BBC 4 on 9 July 2004 and BBC 2 on 23 January 2006. Dutch TV station VPRO showed the movie on 4 December 2005. The documentary has been shown on various film festivals. It was released on DVD in the UK on 30 January 2006 by Plexi and stateside in March 2006 by Image Entertainment. The soundtrack came out on Luaka Bop in 2005.
that and more fm here: http://16horsepower.com/searchingftwejesus.html
Yep. It was a great documentary, although I suspect there are audiences which can not appreciate its candor. For me, it was a poignant presentation, made all the more so by the too familiar places and faces in the film. I sometimes felt as if I were there. In time, I will likely view it again, and once again feel myself transported into the timelessness of the Deep Southern mystique... to be home again.
it's on my to buy list, when i get around to it. would like to have it on hand for viewing and sharing, like when mag and james come.
---
edited bec I apparently can't either can't spell the two letter word "to" or I can't tell the difference in usage for "to" vs "too" ... bah.
--
p.s. ben, you'll enjoy. share with yr brother when it comes in!
it's still working its way up my netflix queue..
Slim's, the bar featured in this video, no longer exists. It burned down. I've been meaning to post about this. The trailer behind it was burned to the ground also, nothing left to it but a pile of burnt rubble.
yeah. makes you wonder.
slims was blackie's bar but since his death, bubba was running it. the trailer behind it was where blackie and wanda lived (we lived in a trailer behind it too, at one time), but again, bubba was in it at the time it burned.
they were having trouble finding a buyer. the whole fmy is still arguing over proceeds. wanda wants a share, her kids want their shares. and then there's brenda's boy, jut. brenda nor jut are happy abt priscilla dying before it all got settled. it's been ten years at least since blackie died and they are all still squabbling over this place, the warehouse where all the video games were stored (boys will remember), jake's place, brenda's house, and a few other properties.
Really a sad thing for the Drane family. :(
Really a sad thing for the Drane family. :(
Yes, sad.
Life goes on. Only the memories remain. Some worth holding onto. Others better left to fade away with the past to which they belong.
It was a surreal experience for a couple of weeks there watching my next door neighbor's dramatic grieving over Bubba's death when I, who had shared some hard years of intimate life with him (in another life I sometimes only dimly recall), managed only a slight pang of sorrow for his family.
Life, in terms of time, is the most objective thing, so completely indifferent. It is we, ourselves, who either fill it with real life, whether by experiences, will, or values, or otherwise we become just a part of the steam of passing time.
Nevertheless, grief is better let go to happier emotions than spoon fed with too much over-thinking . . . if we can.
So true; yet we, as sentient beings, are so prone to while away what precious little time we have without the joy that could have been ours in each passing moment.
yep
Post a Comment