Talking with Roger Corman about Edgar Allan Poe, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, taking "a nice trip," and missing the chance to direct Orson Welles. (Of course, I look so huge here, he must have thought his dream finally came true.) The last time I had so much fun, I was interviewing Corman at the Bahamas International Film Festival for Variety.
When I was asked by my Variety editor
to contribute a blurb about one of the best films I saw at SXSW 2019, I had
this to say about Tread:
“Paul
Solet’s remarkably absorbing and suspenseful documentary plays like the flip
side of some 1970s rural revenge movie — think Jonathan Kaplan’s White Line Fever, or Jonathan Demme’s Fighting Mad — in which a besieged
protagonist turns the tools of his trade into weaponry while battling
oppressors. But Marvin Heemeyer, the vindictive welder at the heart of this
true-life drama, gradually comes into focus as a delusional sociopath, not a
plucky underdog, as he uses a steel-and-concrete-armored bulldozer to cause
damage and settle scores in a Colorado mountain town during a 2004 rampage.”
It will be my privilege to introduce the Houston premire of Tread at 7:15 pm Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Alamo Drafthouse LaCenterra. But wait, there’s more: After the film, director Paul Solet will join us via Skype for a Q&A. Check out my full Variety review, check out the trailer -- and then
check out the movie.
