interview with jennifer venditti

MOVIE #1,449 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 03.18.24 There are several interviews that Mark conducted in this early run of videos, mostly — it seems — with film directors. [Ed. Note: I actually took this as inspiration to watch the three films that these people were promoting, starting with Venditti's incredible Billy the Kid.] Knowing what I know of Mark and where his work would go, this seems like an odd venture. Did he have aspirations to be a journalist, a film critic? These Q&As were likely conducted as part of screenings while Mark was an undergrad student. They feature a mix of asinine and legitimate questions. We see the first of what would become a stock question, as Mark asks Jennifer what she thinks about Josh Brolin ("he's having a big 2007"). And she gives him a detailed answer of meeting him, and references a Brolin interview on MySpace. All the while he's shooting an image of the Billy the Kid movie poster while they chat, ostensibly because this wasn't supposed to be an on-camera interview.

The final question is Mark asking her about the top films of the year, and she mentions Frownland among them. She hated Lars and the Real Girl. The battery runs out on the camera and he includes a postscript mentioning that she told him to get a tape recorder and he said, "maybe I will." The final card reads "I haven't yet though and I don't think I am going to." A true spirit to the very end.

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"interview with jennifer venditti " (Mark Baumer, 2008)

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Mark Baumer (December 19, 1983 – January 21, 2017) was an American writer, adventurer, and environmental activist. I am attempting to form a canon around his work as a filmmaker. This was released on January 28, 2008.