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DP reviews rolling in
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"For some reason, a bunch of online reviews have started hitting the web right now. Some of them are from horror/sci-fi-type sites, I think because Heretic mostly made its reputation putting out genre titles, but the the bloodhounds seem to be liking the movie well enough...DVD SchlockBloodtype OnlineDVD ResurrectionsAskew ReviewsFree Press HoustonFilmmaker MagazineThere was also a pretty lively discussion on the Spoutblog last week about the film, with a couple audio quotes from me. Jake & I will be doing a live interview on Thursday from 12:30-1 on a new KOOP show called Cinema Lingua. We're gonna have a conference call with Alex from Heretic in a bit to find out how all these reviews & such are affecting DVD sales. Hope it's good news!By the way, I finally saw DP on the shelf at Waterloo Video this weekend (they got two copies!), but it's still not in at Vulcan Video or I Love Video. I've had too much pride to "request" it myself, but I don't have too much pride to ask any of yo ... " [More]

Reviews, Debates, Kisses, etc.
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"A pile of links for you today...Our first DVD review came out yesterday, courtesy of the Austin Chronicle. I feel totally gratified by the last sentence.Also, Paul on the Spout.com blog puts up a post about the choices we made in marketing the DVD, to go for the "porn" angle as opposed to the "challenging" angle. It's an internal debate we've had through the whole course of making the film and showing it. But, hey, if anyone is disappointed by the lack of naked skin in Dear Pillow, they can just watch Pleasureland!Paul mentions that the web-ad campaign has begun on Spout.com, a pretty cool movie-review & recommendationg-sharing site I joined a few months back (it's the home of Joey Swanberg's new web-series Butterknife, starring Ronnie Bronstein, who made the mind-blower Frownland). Poke around the site a bit and you'll probably see a little animated Dear Pillow ad show up on the sides or top of the page. American Apparel seems to have bought up most of the ads, but ours show up oc ... " [More]