In Rotterdam at the ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL
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quite surprised no one spotted this.
Marcel in a dress...who's excited!?
Full Version: Sentimental Engine Slayer to debut Feb 5th, 2010
now that volta's potentially in a bad spot with pridgen it makes sense omar can turn to his other projects and finally release them
About time. I really hope it can hit some North American film festivals too (Toronto, maybe Sundance).
I would be so stoked if it came to Sundance, I'd hit that up for sure.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1511489/
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plot
Barlam and Natalia are siblings separated by what would seem to be only a few years. The family home, in a sprawling, yucca-studded 1950s-style subdivision on the far end of El Paso, is cluttered with Catholic ephemera and serves as the de facto crash pad for a host of chain-smoking, Guitar Hero-addicted deadbeats. Chief among them is Natalia's bedwetting other half, Zack, a slovenly gringo all too happy to take advantage of the lackadaisical lifestyle afforded by the girl's mysterious addiction and rent-free accommodations. Despite what seems to be something of a preoccupation with their parents' apparent divorce (at least on the part of Barlam), their mother is curiously absent. Barlam, when not on the receiving end of abuse at the hands of his grocery co-workers, spends his time cycling around the city, paying visits to his therapist father (Angel Marcelo Rodriguez Chevrez) to quiz him on details of the ancient divorce (not to mention taking advantage of some presumably off-the-clock advice), and obsessively stock-piling multiples of the only model car for which he has any penchant: the '67 Mercury Cougar which had been the family car during happier times. He soon discovers a look-alike teenager and, convinced that the boy (Rikardo Rodriguez Lopez) must be the product of some unknown indiscretion on his mother's part, coerces his sister into virtually abducting the youngster in order to glean the key to the apparent mystery. As the chaos of his life accelerates, Barlam is pressured into a liaison with an indifferent prostitute (Becky Vigil), the disastrous results of which may or may not spell doom for the deluded pushover. Subsequently, he embarks on a disorienting series of ill-advised trysts, descending into a shadowy murk of unprovoked violence, transgendered experimentation and mirage-like anomaly.
Much of The Sentimental Engine Slayer straddles the line between fantasy and reality, as much a puzzle for the viewer to decipher as it seems to be for Barlam. Indeed, his life appears to be a contradictory muddle of fledgling awkwardness and cocksure bar talk; of naïve vulnerability and knee-jerk aggression. When at long last he seems to have found his footing with regards to the intimate relationships he craves, he haphazardly sabotages himself in a literal bloodbath of unresolved hostility, uncorking a lifetime of pent-up rage both shocking and perplexing. It is only as this moment that Barlam's mother finally appears, ostensibly a figment of his imagination, yet doubtless the matriarch of the household whether in her natural state, or that of the mysterious circuitry at the core of the home's electronic brain to which she lends her name. Climaxing with Barlam's moonlight mission to dispose of the fruits of his evident psychosis, the film presents a paradoxical twist perhaps only understood with repeated viewing.
cast
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez ... Barlam
Tatiana Velazquez ... Natalia
Nomar Rizo ... Oscar
Kim Stodel ... Zack
Rikardo Rodriguez Lopez ... Riko
Angel Marcelo Rodriguez Chevrez ... Father
Marcel Rodriguez Lopez ... Tap Prostitute 1
Becky Vigil ... Mesa Inn Prostitute
Astrid Magallon ... Angel
Daniel De La Mar ... Card Player 1
Chris Salcedo ... Card Player 2
Valentin Merz ... Tap Prostitute 2
Sonny Kay ... Police Officer 1
Bud William Allen ... Repairman
Ramon Villa ... Pimp
Amalia Castro ... Street Prostitute 1
Annie Aguilar ... Street Prostitute 2
Ericka Hanlon ... Street Prostitute 3
Michael Morlan ... Man In Truck
Kristoffer May ... Police Officer 2
Lars Stalfors ... Night Man on Street
Adam Thomson ... Chat Buddy
Sara Christina Gross ... Girl at Party
Frances Rodriguez Lopez ... Mother
Ralph Jasso ... House Friend 1
Eric Salas ... House Friend 2
Mario Matus ... Grocer 1
Thomas Aragon ... Grocer 2
Luis Alfredo Flores ... Ditcher 1
Carlos Alfonso Corral ... Ditcher 2
Mitchel Edward Klik III ... (voice)
haha sonny kay is in the film
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plot
Barlam and Natalia are siblings separated by what would seem to be only a few years. The family home, in a sprawling, yucca-studded 1950s-style subdivision on the far end of El Paso, is cluttered with Catholic ephemera and serves as the de facto crash pad for a host of chain-smoking, Guitar Hero-addicted deadbeats. Chief among them is Natalia's bedwetting other half, Zack, a slovenly gringo all too happy to take advantage of the lackadaisical lifestyle afforded by the girl's mysterious addiction and rent-free accommodations. Despite what seems to be something of a preoccupation with their parents' apparent divorce (at least on the part of Barlam), their mother is curiously absent. Barlam, when not on the receiving end of abuse at the hands of his grocery co-workers, spends his time cycling around the city, paying visits to his therapist father (Angel Marcelo Rodriguez Chevrez) to quiz him on details of the ancient divorce (not to mention taking advantage of some presumably off-the-clock advice), and obsessively stock-piling multiples of the only model car for which he has any penchant: the '67 Mercury Cougar which had been the family car during happier times. He soon discovers a look-alike teenager and, convinced that the boy (Rikardo Rodriguez Lopez) must be the product of some unknown indiscretion on his mother's part, coerces his sister into virtually abducting the youngster in order to glean the key to the apparent mystery. As the chaos of his life accelerates, Barlam is pressured into a liaison with an indifferent prostitute (Becky Vigil), the disastrous results of which may or may not spell doom for the deluded pushover. Subsequently, he embarks on a disorienting series of ill-advised trysts, descending into a shadowy murk of unprovoked violence, transgendered experimentation and mirage-like anomaly.
Much of The Sentimental Engine Slayer straddles the line between fantasy and reality, as much a puzzle for the viewer to decipher as it seems to be for Barlam. Indeed, his life appears to be a contradictory muddle of fledgling awkwardness and cocksure bar talk; of naïve vulnerability and knee-jerk aggression. When at long last he seems to have found his footing with regards to the intimate relationships he craves, he haphazardly sabotages himself in a literal bloodbath of unresolved hostility, uncorking a lifetime of pent-up rage both shocking and perplexing. It is only as this moment that Barlam's mother finally appears, ostensibly a figment of his imagination, yet doubtless the matriarch of the household whether in her natural state, or that of the mysterious circuitry at the core of the home's electronic brain to which she lends her name. Climaxing with Barlam's moonlight mission to dispose of the fruits of his evident psychosis, the film presents a paradoxical twist perhaps only understood with repeated viewing.
cast
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez ... Barlam
Tatiana Velazquez ... Natalia
Nomar Rizo ... Oscar
Kim Stodel ... Zack
Rikardo Rodriguez Lopez ... Riko
Angel Marcelo Rodriguez Chevrez ... Father
Marcel Rodriguez Lopez ... Tap Prostitute 1
Becky Vigil ... Mesa Inn Prostitute
Astrid Magallon ... Angel
Daniel De La Mar ... Card Player 1
Chris Salcedo ... Card Player 2
Valentin Merz ... Tap Prostitute 2
Sonny Kay ... Police Officer 1
Bud William Allen ... Repairman
Ramon Villa ... Pimp
Amalia Castro ... Street Prostitute 1
Annie Aguilar ... Street Prostitute 2
Ericka Hanlon ... Street Prostitute 3
Michael Morlan ... Man In Truck
Kristoffer May ... Police Officer 2
Lars Stalfors ... Night Man on Street
Adam Thomson ... Chat Buddy
Sara Christina Gross ... Girl at Party
Frances Rodriguez Lopez ... Mother
Ralph Jasso ... House Friend 1
Eric Salas ... House Friend 2
Mario Matus ... Grocer 1
Thomas Aragon ... Grocer 2
Luis Alfredo Flores ... Ditcher 1
Carlos Alfonso Corral ... Ditcher 2
Mitchel Edward Klik III ... (voice)
haha sonny kay is in the film
Please, God, let this at least EVENTUALLY come out in some way I can see it!!
i swear thats the plot of FTM.
Wow, Omar. Borrowing heavily from your own life, eh?
His dad is playing a therapist...and he's really a therapist.
His dad is playing a therapist...and he's really a therapist.
And yes, Marcel is really a tap prostitute.
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
QUOTE (MaX PoWeRs @ Nov 11 2009, 10:23 PM) 
And yes, Marcel is really a tap prostitute.
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
Yeah, but I mean, he's also been a dear friend to Omar and Cedric since they were wee lads. You also have Mitchell Edward Klik, Sonny, Lars Stalfors, Sara Gross (Omar's ex-girlfriend of five or six years, if not longer)...all long-time friends and collaborators. I'm sure there are more, but my knowledge is obviously limited.
I really think Omar just grabs people who are convenient in his life at the time, much like he does with getting people to help record his music.
QUOTE (somber_vertigo @ Nov 12 2009, 02:28 PM)
QUOTE (MaX PoWeRs @ Nov 11 2009, 10:23 PM)
And yes, Marcel is really a tap prostitute.
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
Yeah, but I mean, he's also been a dear friend to Omar and Cedric since they were wee lads. You also have Mitchell Edward Klik, Sonny, Lars Stalfors, Sara Gross (Omar's ex-girlfriend of five or six years, if not longer)...all long-time friends and collaborators. I'm sure there are more, but my knowledge is obviously limited.
I really think Omar just grabs people who are convenient in his life at the time, much like he does with getting people to help record his music.
Is that the same Sara Gross that played trumpet on amputechture?
QUOTE (jimmypy @ Nov 11 2009, 10:53 PM)
QUOTE (somber_vertigo @ Nov 12 2009, 02:28 PM)
QUOTE (MaX PoWeRs @ Nov 11 2009, 10:23 PM)
And yes, Marcel is really a tap prostitute.
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
Yeah, but I mean, he's also been a dear friend to Omar and Cedric since they were wee lads. You also have Mitchell Edward Klik, Sonny, Lars Stalfors, Sara Gross (Omar's ex-girlfriend of five or six years, if not longer)...all long-time friends and collaborators. I'm sure there are more, but my knowledge is obviously limited.
I really think Omar just grabs people who are convenient in his life at the time, much like he does with getting people to help record his music.
Is that the same Sara Gross that played trumpet on amputechture?
Yep, that's her.
QUOTE (hui43210 @ Nov 11 2009, 07:11 PM)
i swear thats the plot of FTM.
It is! so obvious
Wonder if Omar's doing the soundtrack.
According to someone who ran into Omar and crew when they were filming, Paul and Juan are co-producers.
According to someone who ran into Omar and crew when they were filming, Paul and Juan are co-producers.
QUOTE (jimmypy @ Nov 11 2009, 07:53 PM)
QUOTE (somber_vertigo @ Nov 12 2009, 02:28 PM)
QUOTE (MaX PoWeRs @ Nov 11 2009, 10:23 PM)
And yes, Marcel is really a tap prostitute.
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
;]
It's kinda cool to see Ralph Jasso up on that line-up of actors, considering he was a pre-Juan bassist for the Volta
Yeah, but I mean, he's also been a dear friend to Omar and Cedric since they were wee lads. You also have Mitchell Edward Klik, Sonny, Lars Stalfors, Sara Gross (Omar's ex-girlfriend of five or six years, if not longer)...all long-time friends and collaborators. I'm sure there are more, but my knowledge is obviously limited.
I really think Omar just grabs people who are convenient in his life at the time, much like he does with getting people to help record his music.
Is that the same Sara Gross that played trumpet on amputechture?
Actually its saxophone
QUOTE (hui43210 @ Nov 11 2009, 07:11 PM)
i swear thats the plot of FTM.
pretty similar to sante sangre too
QUOTE (cerpin the muteESP @ Nov 12 2009, 01:58 AM)
Actually its saxophone
That's the ticket.
cant wait 
QUOTE (snkzato1 @ Nov 12 2009, 04:07 AM)
plot
Barlam and Natalia are siblings separated by what would seem to be only a few years. The family home, in a sprawling, yucca-studded 1950s-style subdivision on the far end of El Paso, is cluttered with Catholic ephemera and serves as the de facto crash pad for a host of chain-smoking, Guitar Hero-addicted deadbeats. Chief among them is Natalia's bedwetting other half, Zack, a slovenly gringo all too happy to take advantage of the lackadaisical lifestyle afforded by the girl's mysterious addiction and rent-free accommodations. Despite what seems to be something of a preoccupation with their parents' apparent divorce (at least on the part of Barlam), their mother is curiously absent. Barlam, when not on the receiving end of abuse at the hands of his grocery co-workers, spends his time cycling around the city, paying visits to his therapist father (Angel Marcelo Rodriguez Chevrez) to quiz him on details of the ancient divorce (not to mention taking advantage of some presumably off-the-clock advice), and obsessively stock-piling multiples of the only model car for which he has any penchant: the '67 Mercury Cougar which had been the family car during happier times. He soon discovers a look-alike teenager and, convinced that the boy (Rikardo Rodriguez Lopez) must be the product of some unknown indiscretion on his mother's part, coerces his sister into virtually abducting the youngster in order to glean the key to the apparent mystery. As the chaos of his life accelerates, Barlam is pressured into a liaison with an indifferent prostitute (Becky Vigil), the disastrous results of which may or may not spell doom for the deluded pushover. Subsequently, he embarks on a disorienting series of ill-advised trysts, descending into a shadowy murk of unprovoked violence, transgendered experimentation and mirage-like anomaly.
Much of The Sentimental Engine Slayer straddles the line between fantasy and reality, as much a puzzle for the viewer to decipher as it seems to be for Barlam. Indeed, his life appears to be a contradictory muddle of fledgling awkwardness and cocksure bar talk; of naïve vulnerability and knee-jerk aggression. When at long last he seems to have found his footing with regards to the intimate relationships he craves, he haphazardly sabotages himself in a literal bloodbath of unresolved hostility, uncorking a lifetime of pent-up rage both shocking and perplexing. It is only as this moment that Barlam's mother finally appears, ostensibly a figment of his imagination, yet doubtless the matriarch of the household whether in her natural state, or that of the mysterious circuitry at the core of the home's electronic brain to which she lends her name. Climaxing with Barlam's moonlight mission to dispose of the fruits of his evident psychosis, the film presents a paradoxical twist perhaps only understood with repeated viewing.
Barlam and Natalia are siblings separated by what would seem to be only a few years. The family home, in a sprawling, yucca-studded 1950s-style subdivision on the far end of El Paso, is cluttered with Catholic ephemera and serves as the de facto crash pad for a host of chain-smoking, Guitar Hero-addicted deadbeats. Chief among them is Natalia's bedwetting other half, Zack, a slovenly gringo all too happy to take advantage of the lackadaisical lifestyle afforded by the girl's mysterious addiction and rent-free accommodations. Despite what seems to be something of a preoccupation with their parents' apparent divorce (at least on the part of Barlam), their mother is curiously absent. Barlam, when not on the receiving end of abuse at the hands of his grocery co-workers, spends his time cycling around the city, paying visits to his therapist father (Angel Marcelo Rodriguez Chevrez) to quiz him on details of the ancient divorce (not to mention taking advantage of some presumably off-the-clock advice), and obsessively stock-piling multiples of the only model car for which he has any penchant: the '67 Mercury Cougar which had been the family car during happier times. He soon discovers a look-alike teenager and, convinced that the boy (Rikardo Rodriguez Lopez) must be the product of some unknown indiscretion on his mother's part, coerces his sister into virtually abducting the youngster in order to glean the key to the apparent mystery. As the chaos of his life accelerates, Barlam is pressured into a liaison with an indifferent prostitute (Becky Vigil), the disastrous results of which may or may not spell doom for the deluded pushover. Subsequently, he embarks on a disorienting series of ill-advised trysts, descending into a shadowy murk of unprovoked violence, transgendered experimentation and mirage-like anomaly.
Much of The Sentimental Engine Slayer straddles the line between fantasy and reality, as much a puzzle for the viewer to decipher as it seems to be for Barlam. Indeed, his life appears to be a contradictory muddle of fledgling awkwardness and cocksure bar talk; of naïve vulnerability and knee-jerk aggression. When at long last he seems to have found his footing with regards to the intimate relationships he craves, he haphazardly sabotages himself in a literal bloodbath of unresolved hostility, uncorking a lifetime of pent-up rage both shocking and perplexing. It is only as this moment that Barlam's mother finally appears, ostensibly a figment of his imagination, yet doubtless the matriarch of the household whether in her natural state, or that of the mysterious circuitry at the core of the home's electronic brain to which she lends her name. Climaxing with Barlam's moonlight mission to dispose of the fruits of his evident psychosis, the film presents a paradoxical twist perhaps only understood with repeated viewing.
that was a fucking great read...
also
GUITAR-HERO-addicted?
Mitchel Edward Klik III ??? (megaton shotblast...)
QUOTE (4d4m @ Nov 12 2009, 04:07 AM)
Mitchel Edward Klik III ??? (megaton shotblast...)
Yep, that's him... and it's fucking scandalous.
This sounds like... one bad movie, haha.
I'll see it anyway, in hopes of some decent soundtrack work.
I'll see it anyway, in hopes of some decent soundtrack work.
QUOTE (Ilyena @ Nov 11 2009, 11:32 PM)
Wonder if Omar's doing the soundtrack.
According to someone who ran into Omar and crew when they were filming, Paul and Juan are co-producers.
According to someone who ran into Omar and crew when they were filming, Paul and Juan are co-producers.
I'm pretty sure he will
I would love to watch this film you know bros and gals???
If this turns out to be true, I might head over if day tickets are available. I've been meaning to visit the Netherlands again for a while.
Looks like we solved the mystery of why the fuck Marcel was wearing a dress in the Askepios video.
QUOTE (Crown of Magnets @ Nov 26 2009, 02:42 AM)
Looks like we solved the mystery of why the fuck Marcel was wearing a dress in the Askepios video.
exactly
very glad my best friend is in the movie. :)
^^Oh?
no Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez? the only brother missing...mmmmm? lol
FUCK!!! TRAILER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QUOTE (seb18 @ Dec 6 2009, 01:17 AM)
FUCK!!! TRAILER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey fellow enthusiasts I just got my ticket for the Saturday screening at 7:15 pm!!! I'm really stoked. I actually don't have very high hopes for the film itself, but relish the opportunity to be a part of the premiere screenings of Omar's debut film!
Does any1 else here planning on attending???
Does any1 else here planning on attending???
QUOTE (ApocalypseInsideOfAnAdam @ Jan 24 2010, 11:56 AM)
Does any1 else here planning on attending???
YEAH! I've got a ticket for tomorrow morning at 10:30. I'm really looking forward to it.
Right on, but lets keep it together hur: http://forum.thecomatorium.com/forum/index...howtopic=117304
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