Watching OTMM
One Too Many Mornings, the Sundance movie I wrote about last week, just debuted at Park City and online. I watched it — the $9.99 HD download — and would recommend it to many readers of this blog. It’s lo-fi funny, a mumblecore Swingers, with a refreshingly clear sense of what it is.
The movie’s achievably ambitious. The team figured out exactly what assets they had, and how to maximize those strengths. More crucially, they sliced away a lot of the cruft that usually comes along with shaggy indie films. There are no guns, no teary poems, no bad fathers. Its protagonists are a wuss and an asshole, but the script lets them be more than that.
And it looks great, largely thanks to its black and white photography.
Could anyone pick up a camera and make a movie like this? No. There’s talent required. But the film is great example of how little actual money you need to make an honest-to-God movie.
The film’s distribution strategy — allowing viewers to buy it online, or rent it on YouTube — makes it simple for aspiring filmmakers to check it out.
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January 24th, 2010 at 3:30 am
Well, I was about to see about renting it on YouTube, but “This video contains content from ManyMorningsMovie, who has decided to block it in your country.”
pity.
January 24th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Funny, blocked in Canada. Why would an indie block their movie in ANY country?
“This video contains content from ManyMorningsMovie, who has decided to block it in your country.”
January 24th, 2010 at 10:26 am
Thank you so much john. This is so incredibly exciting for us. I’ll continue to answer any questions your readers have.
For your international readers- the dvd we are selling on our site is region 0. So it will work in any player.
Youtube rentals is still in beta- we’re one of their first test cases, so if anyone overseas wants to see it you’ll have to go to our site at onetoomanymornings.com.
I’m just thrilled that you’re all interested in watching it. Thanks again so much john for watching and sharing this with your readers.
January 24th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Blocked in Portugal as well.
January 24th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Blocked in Australia as well.
You’ll want to fix that problem sooner rather than later. Having it unavailable for rental on a high traffic website might be a bad idea.
Sure – truly dedicated people might go to a specialised website to buy it .. but I’ll wait until I can rent it.
January 24th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Thanks for this great info John (and Mike).
The youtube rental is blocked in Australia also.
January 24th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Hi, John,
Are there any interviews with the filmmakers available online that you’ve found, specifically about what format OTMM was shot on, why they chose to go with B/W, etc?
January 24th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
After reading yet another negative review of THE BOOK OF ELI (this time in The New Yorker) I thought, “Instead of redundantly panning the same studio film, why can’t more writers promote struggling indie films they actually like?”
Thanks for helping the little guy, John.
January 24th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
I did read your post about the movie last week. I will follow up now and get the DVD. Thanks for your recommendation.
January 25th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Any word on whether this is coming to Netflix (streaming or mailed discs)? Trailer looks interesting.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
sundance has so many other cool flicks too!! graffiti all over utah. ;=)
btw; john : in numerology they do this 666=6+6+6=18, and they split the numbers up: 1+8=9. pretty cool.
could the devil nobody knows is the real devil please write about the graffiti film??
would be so cool sir.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Thanks for all the warm feedback guys (this is Mike Mohan, the director of OTMM).
For all the international folk – unfortunately YouTube Rentals is still in beta. I’m hoping it spreads internationally soon! In the meantime – you can still get the film on our website right now – the dvd is region free. (onetoomanymornings.com)
@Will – We really wanted the film to be available on Netflix and iTunes at the same time, but we unfortunately didn’t have enough lead time to get those platforms set up. We found out we got into Sundance two days before Thanksgiving and we simply didn’t have enough time to get it set up (we also had to finish the sound design and color correction during those two months too)! But once the festival is over we will definitely be working towards that.
January 27th, 2010 at 2:22 am
Don’t you love how you still have to color correct a black & white film? ;-)