Self-Aggrandizement: New York Loves Your Work

[While I'm sure everyone here is more than sick of hearing about I Love Your Work, here's one last plug, copied from a recently sent email, that details our small celebration for the New York opening this weekend.]

Though the 'official' premiere is in LA, we're celebrating the NYC release of I Love Your Work, a film I and Cyan Pictures produced, this very Friday.

For those who don't know, I Love Your Work was directed by Adam Goldberg, and stars Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Marisa Coughlan, Jared Harris, Jason Lee, Vince Vaughn, Marisa Coughlan, Judy Greer and Elvis Costello.

The reviews from the LA opening are quite strong, with the LA Times calling it "a highly stylized dissertation on the foibles of fame and our inability to secure happiness in our present condition" and saying "I Love Your Work has its rewards for those up to the challenge of tackling its nonlinear structure and brooding nature." The LA Weekly says "the filmmaking is actually quite polished, and Ribisi is fascinating to watch — his fluttery weirdness has never seemed more grounded and resonant, turning Gray's self-destructive egoism into near tragedy."

My own, brutally honest, appraisal is that the first two thirds are excellent, while the last is less so, though at least, in the words of E!, "always interesting, even when it stumbles."

You can watch the trailer on Apple's site.

The grand plan for Friday is to converge on the 7:00pm screening at Village Cinemas East (181 2nd Ave at 12th). You can buy tickets in advance, as it may well sell out.

Then, post-screening (about 9:00, for those who can't make the film itself) we'll relocate a few blocks east to Keybar, 423 E. 13th between 1st and A, for celebratory drinks.

I'd love to see you there.

New York Loves Your Work Filed Wednesday, November 30 2005.

New York Loves Your Work
Filed Wednesday, November 30 2005.