Culture
&mm not 7

Jen Swanston discover if the film is real, and if seedy underworld of black

so, who the young girl is. market porn. Stormare’s charac-
With Andrew Kevin Walker, ter, Dino Velvet, is a director of

writer of Seven, penning the much sought after, custom made

script, it should have been dark S&M films. With a cross bow and

and smart. Unfortunately, due long cape, he lights up the

to bad acting and along running screen for the five minutes he is

Violence, sex and big names—
what else does the average
viewer look for? Well how about
plot for one, and acting for
another. With all the hype
surrounding 8mm, it’s a pity

nak ik doken’ Ww lie ¢ time, the smart seemed to go on.
5 mt aps t ats y bees . missing. Cage's acting swings Despite those two bright
it, 8mm-is basically another tWO dark and forth from being points, the rest of the film goes

hours of poor acting and vio-
lence for violence’s sake.

Nicholas Cage plays Tom
Welles, a private investigator
based out of Harrisburg Pennsyl-
vania, called in by a wealthy
widow, Mrs. Christian (Myra
Carter) to investigate a snuff
film that she found among her
late husband's belongings

unbelievably wooden to burst of
manic emotional outbursts. The
film either reveals nothing or
has characters all but drawing
charts for the audience about
their motives.

The only bright spots are

overboard with gratuitous
violence and self-indulgence. For
such high expectations the let-
down is not pretty. When the
lights come on you are left
wondering where, in the two
hours, was the intense, interest-
performances by Joaqulin ing film that was promised by
Phoenix and Peter Stormare. the writer of Seven.

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showing the death-of-a youn fe star We works in an adult Rated R

girl. Welles sets out to first shop and was dragged into the

Sport Shorts

Basketball: Last Tuesday, the
women’s team played Capilano in
a make up game, which had been
delayed the week before due to
technical problems with the
Douglas score clock. The Royals

them 86-64, with Audrey Curran
notching 22 points and 20
rebounds and Rogers getting 18
and 12 to lead the Royals’ attack.
Saturday, Douglas ran into a
brick wall called Malaspina,

Blues 76-55 with Danny Elliot
scoring 23 and Aaron Frampton
getting a huge double double of
19 points and 15 rebounds.
Friday, the men’s team
began wrapping up their season

fell to the Blues 77-63, with
Carrie Rogers and Tammy Neufeld
scoring 18 and 16 points respec-

dropping a 71-40 decision to the
Mariners. Rogers scored 12 points
and Neufeld had 5 for the Royals,

with a 73-72 squeaker over the
Camosun Chargers. Frampton had
his second double double in as

 

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who finished the season in
second place, earning a bye into
the provincial semi-finals this
weekend,

Last Wednesday, the men’s
team played capilano in a make
up game that was delayed by
technical difficulties the week
before. Douglas smashed the

tively.

Friday, the Royals hit the
Island to wrap up their season,
starting with the Camosun
Chargers, the team that knocked
them from the ranks of the
unbeaten earlier this year.
Douglas avenged themselves
against the Chargers, whipping

many games with 22 points and
11 rebounds and Elliot notched a
double double as well, with 16
and 10. Unfortunately for the
Royals, their winning streak was
stopped at two by the Malaspina
Mariners, who whipped Douglas
91-62 on Saturday.

 

 

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14 March 3 1999 the Other Press

Locals and Web “Oscars”

Jimmihanada

March 18 is, “when the virtual
will become reality” according to
the bumph on the website; the
3rd annual Webby Awards will be
handed out in San Francisco
that night.

What an award ceremony
has to do with an unassuming
basement suite in Burnaby is
not immediately clear. However,
the address in the middle of
suburbia happens to be the
mailing address of a particularly
influential website, and a Webby
Award nominee for Best Film
Website. “We have people from
LA who want to tour our facili-
ties,” says Patrick Sauriol. “We
say, ‘You don’t want to do that;
it’d be a short tour.” ;

Sauriol is the webmaster
behind Coming Attractions by
Corona, a four-year-old web
publication devoted entirely to
the machinations behind today’s
movies. Started as a friend's
video game development project,
Coming Attractions is an outlaw
of a website, a “database to keep
track of films that are in devel-
opment, “ publishing insider
information directly from the
email accounts of sources close
to the movie industry.

“We bought equipment,
got a suite, but even though we
had the enthusiasm and the
people, we had no financing,”
says Sauriol with his rapid-fire
delivery. Still, the group wanted
to do something, so they put up
a website, the purpose of which
was to publicize the fledgling .
company’s developments. It was
only later that they decided to
add some movie news to make it
more interesting for other
people.

Goaded into using his
oddly detailed knowledge of
several movie projects underway
at the time, Sauriol relented and
came up with a particular

document style of spreading
information about “projects” at
the time, such as Toy Story and
the new chapter in the Star Wars
series. His innocuous invitation
on the web page got things
rolling: “Email me if you have
comments.”

“Developers would get
home, get on the web and check
us out...,” says Sauriol. What
was a couple dozen emails at
first became a ‘huge juggernaut.

“We were the first site of
its kind out there,” says Sauriol,
explaining the strength of the
site which led to its huge
popularity.

The site has received alot _
of attention both north and
south of the border, making the
pages of Entertainment maga-
zine, Vanity Fair and People.
Entertainment Weekly acknowl-
edged it in their ‘30 Beautiful
Sites’ article, under the category
Best Industry Dirt (Oct 97).
“People in Hollywood think
we're based in LA,” says Sauriol
about the quality of information
on the site, recounting how he
often gets invited to movie
premieres on Santa Monica Blvd.

Despite the site’s success,
there is still a bit of a financial
struggle. The site’s prominence
in the media eclipses its eco-
nomic success. Soon, however,
things may change financially
for the company. An offer from
The Den to provide financing
means that there won't be such
a disparity between the site’s
influence and its intake.

The success has bred
another kind of irony, however.
While Coming Attractions has
been feted in America, they've
been virtually ignored in
Canada. “We get a lot of atten-
tion from Japanese magazines
even, but next to nothing in
Canada.”

 

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