Little Ashes Promo Blitz Site

Over and Out

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:41:47 +0000

Although the site will continue to be updated with the most recent and informative news, including film reviews, the format in which our Promotional Blitz used to epitomize its uniqueness and thus separated itself from other typical, clichéd promotional sites has come to an end. In saying that, I deem it imperative to thank the Little Ashes Team; the ones that have devoted their time and talent to such a success.

First and foremost to Jed Medina, our publisher and the site's owner, whose vision of ingenuity became a reality when he took it upon himself to act as Yoda to organize a group of women who were motivated to get Little Ashes the acknowledgement it deserves. His inventiveness and creativity has grown to produce the originality that this project has come to illustrate.

Without the aid of those at Regent, Aria, Met Films, and the cast and crew of Little Ashes, the project would have most definitely lacked its informative platform. The production companies helped our ability to get you, the fans, the most noteworthy details regarding the film and its screenings. Furthermore, the cast and the crew have been beyond fabulous and supportive, supplying the project with exclusive interviews, elaborating on their characters and the filmmaking process.

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Of course, what would the Promotional Blitz be without its marvelously savvy and dedicated team? Our administrators: Jen, Sam, Shannon and Tracy have succeeded in authenticating their respective specialties to surpass the maximum. Additionally, our articles could not be described as perfection, had it not been for Hedy, our brilliant editor. The project's editorialists, Victor and Chanelle, thoroughly elaborated their expertise and knowledge to further enlighten all of us about the unfamiliar, yet valuable anecdotes of Lorca and administering intricate analysis on the work of Salvador Dalí.

Without our extremely talented writing team, which consisted of Cilla, Diana, Jenny, Izzy and Patti, the Blitz's original articles would have ceased to exist. With their meticulous research and exceptional compositions, they have, without a doubt, artistically and exquisitely demonstrated the complexity of the lives in which Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca had lived.

Finally, a special thanks to all of our partners, who not only helped get the word out about our Blitz features and film news, but also for assisting in obtaining video interviews and Little Ashes clips.

We may have both lost and gained team members along the way, however regardless of the differentiation between who we started with and who we've ended with, we would not have flourishingly created what the Blitz has become without each and every person who has helped contribute, no matter how big or how small.

Thank you! Mission Accomplished.

New Florida Booking, a change of locale for Kansas and a Cancelation

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:11:15 +0000

Those lucky Florida fans have yet another chance to see Little Ashes!

6/26/09 Tropic Cinema, 416 Eaton Street

And important change from the Rio in the Kansas City are to:

7/3/09 Glenwood Arts, 9575 Metcalf Avenue

Finally, sad news for Baltimore...The 7/17 Baltimore booking at the Charles Theater, has been canceled.

Keep checking back for more dates and locations!

Latest Release Information + Date Change for Nashville and Vancouver

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:18:50 +0000

Per Regent Releasing and the official site, we have some new dates and a new location for you:

CHANGED: VANCOUVER, BC RELEASE DATE:
6/26/09 Cinemark Tinseltown, 88 W Pender

Regent recommends confirming with Cinemark that the above change is firm.

CHANGED: NASHVILLE, TN RELEASE DATE:
7/17/09 The Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Avenue

NEW BIRMINGHAM, NY RELEASE DATE:
6/29/09 Art Mission Theater, 61 Prospect Avenue

More Little Ashes Bookings + Changes

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:38:55 +0000

Thanks to everyone at Regent Releasing who update the official site with all this information to bring Little Ashes to you! Here's the latest info:

The Ottawa, Ontario release has been moved back two weeks to June 26:

GOOD NEWS: The Ottawa Release has begun already! Going on THIS weekend! Don't miss your chance to see Little Ashes!

OTTAWA, ONTARIO RELEASE DATE:
6/12/09 Bytowne Cinema, 325 Rideau Street

As for the Newest Releases:

ROCHESTER, NY RELEASE DATE:
6/12/09 Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue

VANCOUVER, BC CANADA RELEASE DATE:
6/19/09 Cinemark Tonseltown, 88 W Pender

NORFOLK, VA RELEASE DATE:
6/19/09 Naro Cinema, 1507 Colley Avenue

Our Take: The Blitz Team Reviews, Victor

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:13:39 +0000

Taking advantage of his opportunity to attend a screening of the film, our Federico García Lorca enthusiast and connoisseur Victor, has composed his opinion of Little Ashes. In his review, Victor focuses on the film’s depiction of its main character and the very man who has inspired many people through his life and his individualistic prose.

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I first met Federico García Lorca in a used bookstore back when I was a teenager. According to the introduction to the slim paperback collection of his early poems I randomly pulled out of a discount bin, Lorca had been just as terrified and self-loathing of his own sexuality as I was of mine, so I paid my fifty cents to the cashier and walked back home to languish in the closet (as was fashionable at the time) with my new best friend.

Thankfully, neither of us were in there for too long. I was drop-kicked into a brand new life where I didn't have to hide anymore, and Lorca's siblings finally died off, allowing for the gradual publication and production of his most revolutionary work, which had been denied and suppressed for more than half a century. However, it wasn't until I began research for my series of biographical articles for the Little Ashes Promo Blitz site that I fully realized just how courageous and determined my old friend had been to fight the oppression of women and sexual minorities by consistently upping the ante of controversy with each play he produced, increasingly desensitizing the audience and repeatedly forcing them to confront their own bigotry and hypocrisy.

I'll come right out and say it: the blunt honesty, openly and fiercely masculine sexuality, and utter lack of political correctness (undoubtedly easier to pull off back before GLBT politics were even invented) are precisely what I love the most about Lorca's "impossible theatre." Turns out he'd had a sizeable pair of cojones all along! Who knew?

Unfortunately, for all its good intentions, Little Ashes' conspicuous lack of balls is what ultimately ruins it for me. Although I feel the widespread praise Javier Beltrán has received for his performance is well deserved, the Lorca written into the script is the intensely introspective, depressive, sensitive, deeply conflicted young man I had envisioned in my youth. The controversial nature of his works, particularly his later plays, is never broached, and his sexuality so muted we'd be forgiven for believing that, having failed to penetrate Dalí, he died a lonely virgin as there isn't even a hint of any subsequent relationships. There is a single scene of him exhorting the patrons of a café to sign an anti-fascist petition, but with no indication where this fire of resistance has come from in him. His pivotal, life altering trip to the Americas, the subject of what is widely regarded as his most important book of poems, is only given two or three sentences, none of them revealing. It's as if his entire, wholly remarkable life is being reduced to a single bad relationship with a painter whose infamy would go on to eclipse his hard-won fame, and that just doesn't do the writer I have come to love any justice whatsoever.

Perhaps the most telling detail of this film is the fact that the only word uttered Spanish rather than its English equivalent is maricón ("faggot"). This has the effect of softening the sting of the word for monolingual English speakers, to the extent that the few overt instances of outright homophobia in the film might go unnoticed. The only exception to this, out of the dozens of times the word is used in the film, is after Lorca has been shot, while the camera is fixed on his still living face, we hear one of the firing squad remark "there's only one way to kill a faggot!" Camera cuts to some wild grasses and we hear another shot ring out, leaving the audience clueless as to what that singular way might be, seeing as he's already been shot once. That this film only vaguely hints at but refuses to depict the poet being "shot twice up the ass for being a fag" as his executioners would go on to brag has been described as "tasteful," but I find it cowardly in exactly the same way as the usage of that slur is throughout the rest of the film - its political correctness keeps us safely one step removed from the brutal, dehumanizing nature of bigotry.

I hope someday a film comes out that gives Lorca his due, with as much fearlessness and scathing irreverence as his own finest works, but Little Ashes isn't it.

New Releases + San Diego Location Change!

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:43:11 +0000

First, the San Diego location change, this Friday, June 12th, from the Ken to the Hillcrest:

SAN DIEGO, CA RELEASE DATE + NEW LOCATION:
6/12/09 Landmark Hillcrest Cinemas, 3965 5th Avenue

And the new Locations are, according to the official site:

SANTA ROSA, CA RELEASE DATE - ONE DAY ONLY:
6/18/09 Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, 551 Summerfield Rd.

AUSTIN, TX RELEASE DATE:
7/17/09 Regal Arbor Cinema, 9828 Great Hills Trl.

SANTA FE, NM RELEASE DATE:
7/24/09 US DeVargas Mall 6, 562 North Guadalupe

Lots of new opportunities to see Little Ashes! Keep calling your local theatres to see it near you!

Canada and Florida - More chances to see it!

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:18:26 +0000

Regent Releasing has just updated the official site to include two more release locations! Toronto, Ontario and lucky Floridians have another chance in Gainesville, Florida! Details below.

FLORIDA THEATRE RELEASE DATE:
7/17/09 The Hippodrome Cinema, 25 SE 2nd Place

CANADA RELEASE DATE:
6/12/09 Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton Street

Releases in Florida and Texas

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:09:52 +0000

St. Petersburg, Florida and Plano, Texas are the two most recent additions to the Little Ashes theatrical release. Check the official site for more details!

FLORIDA THEATRE RELEASE DATE:

6/12/09 St. Petersburg, The Beach Theater, 315 Corey Avenue

TEXAS THEATRE RELEASE DATE:

6/12/09 Plano, Angelika Film Center, 7205 Bishop Road

New Cinema Screenings Announced in the UK!

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:03:31 +0000

Back by popular demand at at Piccadilly Circus, London and Cinema City, Norwich, UK!

For those who missed the film's recent run at Cinema City, there are further opportunities to see Little Ashes from Friday 5 - Thursday 11 June 2009. There will be shows at 3.20 each day and at 5.50 on Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday.

For further information or to make a booking visit the Picture Houses website or call 0871 704 2053.

City Screen is a limited company registered in England as company number 2310403 and its registered office is 5th Floor, 7/10 Chandos Street, London, W1G 9DQ

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We have just received news that 'Little Ashes' has been extended at the Apollo, Piccadilly Circus (London)!!

The cinema has added matinee shows Friday/Monday - Thursday as well as evening shows, Apollo Theatres for more info.

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Please see below the extra screenings of 'Little Ashes' across the UK!

20th June 2009
Picturehouse York (1day)
Picture House at Fact Liverpool (1day)

21st June 2009
Phoenix Arts Leicester(2days)

25th June 2009
Festival Corsham(1day)

3rd July 2009
Eden Court Theatre Inverness(4days)

28th July 2009
Roses Tewkesbury(1day)

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If you haven’t seen the film yet, make sure you book soon and tell all your friends!

New Releases - Washington, Illinois, Texas, + Kentucky

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:35:41 +0000

More dates / locations have been added to the official site. Details are:

WASHINGTON THEATRE RELEASE DATE:

7/25/09 Olympia, Capitol Theater, 206 5th Avenue SE

ILLINOIS THEATRE RELEASE DATE:

6/5/09 Wilmette, Wilmette Theater, 1122 Central Avenue

TEXAS THEATRE RELEASE DATE:

6/12/09 Dallas, Regent Theater, 32 Highland Park Villiage

KENTUCKY THEATRE RELEASE DATE:

7/31/09 Louisville, Villiage 8 Theatres, 4014 Dutchmans Lane