Longtime lurker and occassional poster Tom Russell here. My wife and I made a movie a couple of years back and it's now on DVD. If anyone's interested, they can order a copy through Amazon.com. Here's three clips from the film, and they'll pretty much tell you whether it's your kind of thing or not.







Here's the back cover copy:

Quote:

Filmmakers Mary and Tom Russell create a compelling and tense portrait of a young marriage in The Man Who Loved. When his wife Sarah begins to act strangely, the laidback George takes the path of least resistance. But his passivity only widens the gulf between them. Implicit in the film's title are its two central questions: What does it mean to be a man? and What does it mean to love? George finds the answers one night when he must hurt Sarah in order to save her. Newcomers Jacob Hildebrandt and Adrienne Patterson give sensitive and naturalistic performances in a film that is at once tough-minded yet unquestionably romantic. Directed with a sensual eye for moments of domestic beauty (the changing of bedsheets, the bruising of a plum) and written with a psychological deftness that eschews traditional plot structure in order to create a palpable but unnamable sense of tension, The Man Who Loved is a remarkable example of true cottage industry filmmaking.

And here's another little video that we made for YouTube in which my wife and I talk briefly about the making of the film and our decision to distribute it ourselves.



Thanks for your time, and as a smarter man than me once said, go and serve pop culture.

Syd Lexia wrote:

Looks pretty interesting... I'll give it a shot. Might try and see if I can get it off Netflix before I commit to buying it though.

Well, thanks, Syd!

If you can't get it on Netflix, it should be available on Amazon's VOD service (which allows you to rent it for two or three dollars so you can try-before-you-buy) in about six weeks time.

==Tom

Our film The Man Who Loved was on sale on dvd for $19.99. We've slashed the price (and our royalties) by twenty-five percent. That's one geniune DVD-R copy of our film, complete with its handsome packaging and our eight-minute bonus feature, for only $15.00.

This change in price is already reflected on our CreateSpace page: https://www.createspace.com/263357 (super-secret tip: we get a larger royalty with CreateSpace than with Amazon). As of this moment, the Amazon page still reflects the original price but that should change soon.