Independent Spirit Award Best Documentary Nomination

Tarnation has been nominated along with "Bright Leaves", "Chisholm 72", "Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust", "Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster" & "Unbought & Unbossed".

Congratulations to our fellow, very deserving, nominees.

Hatfield Valley Advocate article

Hatfield Valley Advocate - "Mama, don't go -- Daddy, come home!"


See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

Arizona Daily Wild Cat article

Arizona Daily Wild Cat - "Tarnation: America's saddest home video."


See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

Southern Voice.com article

Southern Voice.com - "My life as a camera."


See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

Tarnation open in more theaters today

Tucson, AZ: The Loft Cinema
Atlanta, GA: Landmark Midtown Art
Minneapolis, MN: Landmark Lagoon Cinema
Huntington, NY: Cinema Arts Center


See the Complete Theater List for showtimes and theaters near you.

Star Tribune, Modesto Bee, Metro Weekly & Pioneer Press articles

Minneapolis Star Tribune - "Tarnation is a a surreal memoir." (subscription may be required)
Modesto Bee - "Form dominates substance in Tarnation."
Washington DC Metro Weekly - "Jonathan Caouette discusses 'Tarnation,' his new documentary."
St. Paul,MN Pioneer Press - "Messy home movies a tribute to the beauty of life." (subscription may be required)


See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

Silver Chips Online article

Silver Chips Online - "Tarnation breaks boundaries to create art."

See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

New York Tarnation party on Thursday night

Come celebrate the ongoing success of Tarnation, Thursday night at Crowbar on 28th Street between 10th & 11th Ave in New York City!

Open bar from 11pm-12pm!

For free entry, say you're on "Josh Wood's list" at the door or you're "Here for the Tarnation party."

All are invited!

South Florida Sun Sentinel & chlotrudis.org articles

South Florida Sun Sentinel - "From abuse and tragedy, filmmaker conjures uplifting magic on a computer."
chlotrudis.org - "Tarnation."

See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

Anonymous comments allowed

We've had a few e-mails that it's been tough to sign up for an account to leave comment, so I've opened it up to anonymous comments.

J. Junker - blog admin

Washinton Times, Post, Sun Sentinel & Business Wire articles

South Florida Sun Sentinel - "Tarnation: Tale dark, uplifting at same time."
Washington Post - "Picking Up the Pieces Of a Troubled Family." (registration may be required)
Washington Times - "Tarnation takes self-pitty to extreme." (registration may be required)
Business Wire - "American Vantage's Wellspring Receives Two Gotham Award Nominations."

See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

John Cameron Mitchell Q&A in New York TONIGHT

Tarnation's Executive Director, John Cameron Mitchell will be doing a Q+A at New York's Film Forum - 8:20pm show, TONIGHT (11-12-04).


taken from the e-mail below:

Hello,

This is a letter from Jonathan Caouette and Stephen Winter, the director and producer of TARNATION. You are receiving this email because YOU are a member of the TARNATION-NATION! You have posted to our “I-Saw-It,” message board, hung out with us at a film festival, or somehow seen TARNATION and exchanged information. Regardless, we love you, we thank you and we are asking for your help.

We have been delighted and humbled by the tremendous critical acclaim TARNATION has received (tons of “masterpiece” quotes and 4 star reviews!) and the movie has played to good crowds throughout the country in October and November, but now we are entering the Big Holiday Art Movie Saturation Point in the movie calendar and a whole slew of films with big-name stars etc are gonna come screeching into theaters. We do not want TARNATION to be lost in the shuffle.

If we can get excellent box office numbers in New York City and Los Angeles this upcoming weekend, then we are guaranteed to stay open through December! So we'd like YOU - the TARNATION-NATION to help us get folks into the theaters!!!!

Here's how to help. Please ask ten of your closest friends / relatives / tricks / drinking buddies / ex's / etc who live in Los Angeles and New York City with a personalized letter telling them how incredible, ground-breaking, thrilling, fabulous, and emotionally satisfying TARNATION is and asking them to go see TARNATION, and take a friend or ten!

And, if you happen to live in New York or Los Angeles, remember that the best way to get people to do something is to grant them the pleasure of your company! Organize a Brunch And Tarnation get-together for Saturday or Sunday afternoon! Then you can hang with your pals, spread the good word about TARNATION and get to see it again! For New Yorkers, Friday and Saturday night will also be a good time to see TARNATION for our dear friend and executive director John Cameron Mitchell will be doing a Q+A at the Film Forum's 8:20pm show.

So PLEASE, help us grow the TARNATION-NATION even wider! For more information to help you get your friends to the theaters…

The official TARNATION website www.i-saw-tarnation.com

In Los Angeles TARNATION is playing at the Laemmle Sunset 5

In New York TARNATION is playing at the Film Forum

And our awards! In addition to Best Documentary from the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, TARNATION was recently given the Sutherland Best First Film Award from the International London Film Festival and the International Documentary Association (IDA) has given Jonathan their Emerging Filmmaker Award (a prize NOT given out every year). Just announced: the annual Gotham Awards of the Independent Film Marker has placed TARNATION on the list of nominees for Best Documentary, competing against Fahrenheit 9/11, among others.

So TARNATION rocks! And so do you! Thank you for reading all of this and thank you in advance for helping the cause. Please let us know if you'd like to not receive messages like this again. Heres to a great holiday season!

Love,

Stephen Winter & Jonathan Caouette

Please come to Boston

Saturday, November 13th, Jonathan will attend the 5:15 & 7:45 showings of Tarnation at the Coolidge Corner Cinema in Boston MA.

If you are in the area, don't miss this oportunity to interact with Jonathan during the Q&A sessions following each showing.

Tarnation open in more theaters tomorrow

Washington, DC: Landmark E Street Cinemas
Fort Lauderdale, FL: Gateway Cinema 4
Miami, FL: Regal South Beach 18
Boston, MA: Coolidge Corner Cinema
Baltimore, MD: Charles Theatre

See the Complete Theater List for showtimes and theaters near you.

Minneapolis - on to Washington D.C.

Jonathan attended the screening of Tarnation last night at the Get Real Documentary Film Festival.

This evening will find Jonathan in Washington D.C. fielding questions at the Landmark E Street Theater before Tarnation's 1 week engagement.

Minneapolis City Pags and Washington Post articles

Minneapolis City Pages - "Walk A Mile In My Headphones."
Washington Post - "A Spliced-Together Life." (registration may be required)


See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

Tarnation among nominees for the 14th Annual Gotham Awards

Tarnation is among the nominees in the best documentary category for the 2004 Gotham Awards. The awards will be held in New York on December 1st.

Link to the full story on indiewwire.com

Amoeba Records shopping spree in San Francisco

While in San Francisco this week, Jonathan took a little break from the business at hand to indulge in some movies and music. Here's what he's added to his collection this week:

DVD's:

David Lynch Presents: "I Don't Know Jack"
"Safe" (with Julianne Moore)
"Martin Tahse's After School Specials 1976-1977"

CD's

Denise James - "It's Not Enough To Love"
Violet Indiana - "Russian Doll"
Violet Indiana - "Casino"
LeTigre - "This Island"
His Name Is Alive - "Sings Man On The Silver Mountain & Other Songs"
His Name Is Alive - "Nice Day"

Jonathan attending Philadelphia screenings: Ritz at the Bourse

Saturday, November 6th:

Jonathan is on his way to Philadelphia, PA: Ritz at the Bourse for 2 screenings of Tarnation.

The screenings are at 12:40 PM & 7:25PM and there will be Q&A after each screening.

You can book your tickets at the link above.

Tarnation wins at London Film Festival

At the Festival's closing night, Jonathan Caouette won the The Sutherland Trophy, awarded to the director of the most original and imaginative first feature, for Tarnation.

London Film Festival Artistic Director Sandra Hebron said "Jonathan Caouette has created a richly textured intimate portrait of his life which is in turn heartbreaking, brutal, poignant and uplifting. This is a truly original and imaginative first feature."

Washington Blade & Philadelphia Daily News articles

Washington Blade - "My life as a camera."
Philadelphia Daily News - "Tarnation: self-exposed cut on iMovie."


See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

Tarnation open in more theaters today

Portland, OR: Cinema 21
Philadelphia, PA: Ritz at the Bourse
Nashville, TN: Belcourt Theater

See the Complete Theater List for showtimes and theaters near you.

Tarnation at the Get Real Documentary Film Festival

Minneapolis, MN:

Tarnation is among the films slated for the 4th annual "Get Real" Documentary Film Festival.

Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Oak Street Cinema

Jonathan is scheduled to attend the screening.

Bloglet subscription added

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France theaters and dates

For a listing of theaters showing Tarnation in France, visit the French Tarnation site:

http://tarnation.free.fr/sitepagesfr/event.htm


If you are looking for dates and theaters in the U.S., check out the Complete Theater List.

Seattle Weekly article

Seattle Weekly - "Small World: The Real Deal."


See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

North Jersey.com & AZ Central.com articles

North Jersey.com - "An MTV baby points filmmaking in a new direction."
AZ Central.com - "Budget of movie is lowest of the low ."


See the Tarnation Reviews & Links post for a complete list of articles about Jonathan & Tarnation.

48th London Film Festival

http://www.lff.org.uk/

Tarnation is now showing at the 48th London Film Festival. The festival started on October 20th and continues through November 4th.