November 20, 2004

young adam in hungary

Here's a nice wee story:

Talking to Dave MacKenzie today, one of my best friends and director of the frequently-pimped-on-gapingvoid film, Young Adam.

He was in Hungary recently, doing what film directors do when they're abroad i.e. talking to journalists.

During an interview, the journalist informs Dave that he first came across the movie while reading gapingvoid. Dave tells me he thought that was pretty darn cool.

Heh. I don't know why that made my day. It just did.

[UPDATE- Letter from Peter Orosz in Hungary:]

Dear Hugh,

The Hungarian journalist is a she. My girlfriend, Lili, actually.

It goes like this: started reading your blog around May and emailed
Lili, living in New York at the time, about this cool little experiment
you're doing with Diet Coke and Steve Hall and your friend Dave's movie
and the strange effect it's having on me, namely that I can't wait to
see the movie even though I'd never heard of it aside from your posts.
Lili tells me she's already seen Young Adam with a friend in NY and
it's a pretty neat movie.

Fast forward to November, Lili is back in
Hungary, writing movie reviews for a Hungarian news portal and she
tells me Dave Mackenzie is coming to Budapest to promote Young Adam and
that she just might score an interview with him and I'm like, whoa,
this is cool, then she gets me a press ticket to see the movie and it's
pretty fucking good, all that I'd expected and more, then she goes off
for a chat with Dave and tells him I'd heard of the movie via
gapingvoid and Dave goes, I don't belive it, that's so cool.

Anyway, here's some pictures Lili snapped of Dave, floating in a sea of
Hungarian type which is the interview:

http://index.hu/kultur/cinematrix/ccikkek/mackenzie/

I cannot imagine what English words sprinkled in Hungarian text looks
like for someone who doesn't speak Hungarian.

All the best,

Peter

Heh. Cool.

Posted by hugh macleod at November 20, 2004 6:05 PM | TrackBack