The Reeler doesn’t say much but does plug DP Lee Daniel’s work.
He saw this at the recent Hamptons Film Festival where producer Bill Warren made an appearance. (Bill spent much of his own childhood in the Hamptons.)
The Reeler Finds The Hamptons — Again
Sunday was too stunning a day to be in a theater, but there I was at The Ross School, the first educational facility I’ve visited boasting both an indoor koi pond and bathrooms attuned for maximum feng shui. The projection booth could have used its own spiritual guide; a projector lamp burned out about eight minutes into Laura Dunn’s beautiful if obvious The Unforeseen, reducing the experience to a momentarily dark, drawling meditation on unchecked development in the suburbs of Austin, Tx. It really wasn’t much more than that once the picture was revived, but with a shooter like Lee Daniel filming his beloved Texas as poetically as ever, it hardly seemed to matter. Its festival life winding up as we speak, The Unforeseen premieres on the Sundance Channel in 2008.[Jef: Ahem, we also have a theatrical release coming before then.]
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About The Unforeseen
The Unforeseen, executive produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Called "the best film at the festival, hands down" by Film Comment's Gavin Smith, the film documents the struggles between development and preservation of Austin Texas.