Josh Freed is a piece of work. The first-time filmmaker ends up making his first film a documentary where he is the unlikable star. In it, he continually dicks around women for his own selfish reasons, while thinking of himself as both the unlikely “player,” and the sweet, modest type. He freely admits to always having had issues with relationships and dangerous patterns, yet it only makes his film, Five Weddings and a Felony, frustrating to watch. His immaturity and disregard for others’ feelings is really disgusting, and it’s unclear whether his honesty about his insecurities makes it any better to take. Freed is at both a hopeless romantic and a commitment-phobe. He has had the same pattern with romantic relationships since he was 12: he likes a girl, she doesn’t want to date him, so he dates a female friend, drawing her in and making her think he really cares for her,...
- 11/5/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Josh Freed's "Five Weddings and a Felony" makes its world premiere at Doc NYC, New York's Documentary Festival, that runs from November 3 - 9. First-person diary films are usually a tricky proposition. When filmmakers turn the cameras on their personal lives, the results depend entirely on the creators' appeal. Most people have a hard enough time casting themselves in the daily ritual of life without the interruption of the ...
- 11/4/2010
- Indiewire
You'd be partially right if you thought that Thom Powers would simply do a "copy and paste" job of shuffling films from Tiff's Reel to Real programme to the first edition of the Doc NYC festival. Powers, the fest's Artistic Director has loaded the inaugural edition of the New York City based documentary film festival with U.S preems of several titles from Tiff -- it includes a pair of galas for Herzog's 3D docu and Errol Morris' Tabloid, but Doc NYC will also include a dozen selected films including flip camera docu Five Weddings and a Felony from Josh Freed (see pic). Here's the complete rundown of sections and film selections for the event - a lean fest that could be digested by any hardcore docu-phile between the 3rd and the 9th of November. Galas Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog) – Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film...
- 9/29/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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