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Friday, March 20, 2009

Film Toe Tactic Tix!

Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:59 PM

I've got five pairs of tickets to give away for tomorrow night's screening of The Toe Tactic at Northwest Film Forum.

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The Toe Tactic is the first full-length feature from animator Emily Hubley, who will be in attendance at Saturday's screening. The film is quiet and colorful; Hubley's quavery, surreal animated figures philosophize and bicker, sometimes intruding on reality, sometimes hovering around its edges. The cast includes, weirdly, a few of the world's best comedians (David Cross, Eugene Mirman, H. Jon Benjamin, Jane Lynch), plus Eli Wallach, John Sayles, and a crowd of other interesting people.

Here's an excerpt from an interview with Hubley on NWFF's blog:

For people who haven’t heard of the film, tell us a little about what The Toe Tactic is about?

Well, there are all kinds of reasons for those times in life when you lose your footing, but in this case it’s a young woman’s revisited grief for her dead father when she learns her childhood home has been sold. Her temporary withdrawal from the action of her life triggers the connection to an animated reality in which four dogs play a game of cards, the object of which is to get her back in step with the world.

The first five people to e-mail me with "Toe Tactic" in the subject line and the correct response to this question:

Well, do you want to fucking see this movie or not?

...can have 'em. Go go go!

UPDATE: The tickets have all been claimed! Thank you for playing!

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I saw her parents films in the Jazz series at NWFF. If she's even half as good its worth your time.

Posted by animateme on March 20, 2009 at 3:14 PM

The whole Hubley family are marvels of creativity. Faith and John Hubley are Oscar winning animators, and sister Georgia is one-half of the husband/wife duo at the heart of "Yo La Tengo." Fuck yeah I want to see to see this movie!

Posted by Gurldoggie on March 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM

No one is reading this anymore, but the movie was shit. Half of it was schizophrenic non-sense, the other half was watered down, yuppified donnie-darko-esque masturbation, peppered with cameo's of B-list stars.

Major bust. I'm sorry for winning the tickets. I'm going to go brush my eyes, and ears now.

Posted by ee on March 22, 2009 at 8:35 PM