The Substance Of Things Hoped For
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103 years old
GRANADA HILLS, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 7/14/2009
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| Website | filmpunk.com | | Influences | The Graduate, Badlands, Blue, Red, New World, Solaris, Day of the Dolphin, Slaughter House 5, The Big Blue, Fearless, The Professional,
The Lover (French?), Raise the Red Lantern (Chinese), The Year My Voice Broke (Australian), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australian), Gallipoli (Australian - War), Apocalypse Now (War), Hearts of Darkness (Doc on -Apocalypse Now), Forest Gump, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Alien, Fitzcaraldo, Midnight Clear (War), Mediterraeo (Italian), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, She's Having a Baby, Catch 22, Never Cry Wolf, Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen version), The Shining, Breakfast Club,
Marathon Man, Barry Lyndon, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Indochine (French), Das Boot (German - War), The Piano, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (French), The Accompanist (French), The Cement Garden (English), Ju Dou (Chinese), Zentropa, My Own Private Idaho, Castle Keep (War), Colonel Chabert (French), Frankie Starlight, Hate, When Night Is Falling, Dead Man, Local Hero, The Crossing Guard, Manny & Lo, The Double Life of Veronique, Jude, Margarets Museum, Pillow Book, Ripe, Lawn Dogs, Leolo, The Ice Storm, Any film by Keislowski
Man on Fire, The Thin Red Line, Eyes Wide Shut. | | Directors | Terrence Mallick, Krystov Kieslowski, Steven Soderburgh | | Awards | Reviews:
“Morgan's film is an expertly acted and filmed, intelligently conceived,
philosophically provocative, and deeply affecting spiritual speculative
fiction—don't miss it.”
--San Francisco IndieFest
“..when I write that I love a movie, I genuinely love it. And, in fact, I
did love "The Substance of Things Hoped For".
--- Jason Watches Movies
“We’re sure there are a lot of great films at Indiefest, but we screened one of the best on Wednesday night at the Roxie - The Substance of Things Hoped For.”
--SFist | | Festivals | San Francisco IndieFest | | Professional Affiliations | FIND, AIVF |
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| General | It is all but a wish...a faith, a fleeting trust. That substance, the birth-mother of
dreams, that with which Loki's great wolf was subdued lest it
swallow the earth whole; It is humanity's gift to the gods. It is belief.
The Substance of Things Hoped For is the tale of
Daphne Lessing's terrible loss and her struggle to collect the
remains. It is both fable and film-borne magic realism. Through
Daphne's struggle, we tear away our rational veil. This is a film to
make yours, to take with you. It is a dare; it is a prayer. It is our
offering. | | Movies | Cinema is primal, and like many who step into the darkened
theatre, I am silenced, wooed as if by incantation. In this time, our
time, we ride yet another great wave, the upswell of our medium
rebirthed, and I could not be happier for this, our art.
As a collaborator, I choose to allow my colleagues room to stretch.
Our best work seems to spring from calm waters. Once we have
tried on film what we once imagined, the second journey begins.
In editing, as my fellows have in production, I pour myself into
another mold, one of all our makings, and make my play for
beauty.
As a filmmaker, I believe in story. If by wonder, blood, chance, or
commitment a tale moves me, I feel compelled to capture it. Great
stories are not accidents; they bring aspects of the real into fierce
focus. In this way they are truth. And what a great and ghastly
thing is truth!
Film is my screaming child, my candle, my bitter lover, my
meditation. With each one, I begin again. It is a search for
transcendence, for magic boxes, for the voices that whisper
beneath the din. It is the chance to confront you with that which I
hold dear.
Some distant day (if all goes well) I will die in the pursuit.
Greg Morgan |
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Total Plays: 857 |
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Run Time:
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This film is now available at filmbaby.com!!!!! Go buy it!!!
The Substance Of Things Hoped For: Spiritual drama about a young woman diagnosed with a rare form of schizophrenia. Her dilemma: She may simply avert the disease that would eventually lead to insanity by taking a drug, but that same drug will abort the unborn child with her. Her conclusion: If the disease is hereditary she will abort the fetus and save herself, if not, she will have the child, but lapse into total insanity. The problem: She must find the father she has never known and have him take a blood test. Unfortunately, he denies her and she decides to deduce his sanity or insanity through his abandoned research in dolphin linguistics, but for her, time is running out.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Ron Meyer, President & COO of Universal Studios (the largest film studio in the world) said, "An amazing film...with great performances." He said a lot more than that and I could go on and on but....
We want to thank Ron for taking the time out of his extremely busy schedule to watch such a small independent film (in comparison to Universal's lineup) and to call me with his comments.
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