"My Pretty Pony" © Stephen King
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
50 second teaser:
The MY PRETTY PONY Premiere will take place at the Oldenburg Int'l. Film Festival - on September 17th, 2009.
(View Acceptance Letter)
A Film Festival Screening is scheduled to take place on 14th of November, 2009 at the LUX Theatre, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (View poster here / View screen capture here)
My Pretty Pony will also screen at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival on October 2-4th.
(View Acceptance Letter)
"I watched some dollar babies before, this is one of the two only times were I like the movie more than the story. Even when I liked the story…. I always thought something was missing from it. And after watching your movie I realized what is it. Your movie is balanced. It's a complete story, tells the tale from the start to the end and leaves you thinking. The story doesn't. Even when it's an adaptation of a story, you didn't leave any holes in it. The "Lightning" (I don't exactly know how to say it in English, but in Spanish is "luces"/"Iluminación") gives the story a sinister atmosphere (completed with the TIC TOC sounds in the background, matching almost exactly the balancing of the wood pony). The performance is excellent (by the way...Paul has the perfect voice for the story. Not low, not treble. Just the exact tone). The camera is one of the things I always focus a lot. And it was a very nice feeling to see that it's as balanced as the rest of the story. Steady, never focusing too much time in one thing, showing A LOT in, what? less than 3 mts x 3 mts. And contributing to that dark atmosphere I mentioned above.
To remove the grandson's character from the story was a risky move. It always seems easy to follow a story exactly as it was written (if possible, of course). Your move gives you another good point: More darkness to the story.
And now we come to the story itself. It's impossible for one to watch the movie and, once it ended, forget about it, forget about "My pretty Pony", the three different times, and how an old timer sees it when he's running out of it. Will we all end having similar thoughts about time when we get older and older?
It's very easy to tire out someone with a short movie where a person is talking for 4 minutes, showing only 3 scenarios. It's very hard to leave that someone thinking and meditating about the message. You achieve that completely!"
- Ariel Bosi (Insomnia Magazine)
"An old man talking about time. Doesn't sound very interesting do it? Well, I agree that it might sound a bit dull but that assumption couldn't be more wrong when it comes to the Dollar Baby version of My Pretty Pony. I’ll admit that it’s no action movie but if you know what kind of movie it is you won’t be disappointed. It is very nice shoot and Paul Marin is perfect as the old man telling his grandson about time.
Mikhail Tank has made himself a very nice little movie and the set is very cleverly designed so that we only need to see the old man and hear what he has to say. What he says and who he is saying it to is illustrated by the prop in the movie. We know he is talking about the old days and we know that he talks to his grandson.
The movie is about four minutes long and that is just the time the movie need. Should it have been longer it would have required more than just the old man and the prop. As it is now it works fine. With that said we shouldn't forget that this is a Dollar Baby and if it were done by Hollywood it probably wouldn't have had been done at all. I think this is a movie best done by someone with the intent of doing a good movie because he likes the story he is telling and not by someone that makes it because he can afford it.
Lilja's final words about My Pretty Pony
I like My Pretty Pony but I would like to give you some advice. If you get the chance, watch it more than once. There are a lot of words spoken in a short time and to fully get it all it’s best to watch it more the once."
- Review by Hans-Ake Lilja (Lilja's Library)
Special thank you's:
Stephen King, Margaret Morehouse, Marsha DeFilippo, Mika Kolb, Rick Shaw,
Charlesetta Redmond, SAG
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
50 second teaser:
The MY PRETTY PONY Premiere will take place at the Oldenburg Int'l. Film Festival - on September 17th, 2009.
(View Acceptance Letter)
A Film Festival Screening is scheduled to take place on 14th of November, 2009 at the LUX Theatre, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (View poster here / View screen capture here)
My Pretty Pony will also screen at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival on October 2-4th.
(View Acceptance Letter)
"I watched some dollar babies before, this is one of the two only times were I like the movie more than the story. Even when I liked the story…. I always thought something was missing from it. And after watching your movie I realized what is it. Your movie is balanced. It's a complete story, tells the tale from the start to the end and leaves you thinking. The story doesn't. Even when it's an adaptation of a story, you didn't leave any holes in it. The "Lightning" (I don't exactly know how to say it in English, but in Spanish is "luces"/"Iluminación") gives the story a sinister atmosphere (completed with the TIC TOC sounds in the background, matching almost exactly the balancing of the wood pony). The performance is excellent (by the way...Paul has the perfect voice for the story. Not low, not treble. Just the exact tone). The camera is one of the things I always focus a lot. And it was a very nice feeling to see that it's as balanced as the rest of the story. Steady, never focusing too much time in one thing, showing A LOT in, what? less than 3 mts x 3 mts. And contributing to that dark atmosphere I mentioned above.
To remove the grandson's character from the story was a risky move. It always seems easy to follow a story exactly as it was written (if possible, of course). Your move gives you another good point: More darkness to the story.
And now we come to the story itself. It's impossible for one to watch the movie and, once it ended, forget about it, forget about "My pretty Pony", the three different times, and how an old timer sees it when he's running out of it. Will we all end having similar thoughts about time when we get older and older?
It's very easy to tire out someone with a short movie where a person is talking for 4 minutes, showing only 3 scenarios. It's very hard to leave that someone thinking and meditating about the message. You achieve that completely!"
- Ariel Bosi (Insomnia Magazine)
"An old man talking about time. Doesn't sound very interesting do it? Well, I agree that it might sound a bit dull but that assumption couldn't be more wrong when it comes to the Dollar Baby version of My Pretty Pony. I’ll admit that it’s no action movie but if you know what kind of movie it is you won’t be disappointed. It is very nice shoot and Paul Marin is perfect as the old man telling his grandson about time.
Mikhail Tank has made himself a very nice little movie and the set is very cleverly designed so that we only need to see the old man and hear what he has to say. What he says and who he is saying it to is illustrated by the prop in the movie. We know he is talking about the old days and we know that he talks to his grandson.
The movie is about four minutes long and that is just the time the movie need. Should it have been longer it would have required more than just the old man and the prop. As it is now it works fine. With that said we shouldn't forget that this is a Dollar Baby and if it were done by Hollywood it probably wouldn't have had been done at all. I think this is a movie best done by someone with the intent of doing a good movie because he likes the story he is telling and not by someone that makes it because he can afford it.
Lilja's final words about My Pretty Pony
I like My Pretty Pony but I would like to give you some advice. If you get the chance, watch it more than once. There are a lot of words spoken in a short time and to fully get it all it’s best to watch it more the once."
- Review by Hans-Ake Lilja (Lilja's Library)
Special thank you's: Stephen King, Margaret Morehouse, Marsha DeFilippo, Mika Kolb, Rick Shaw, Charlesetta Redmond, SAG