Atlanta Film Festival 2008 : Let Them Chirp Awhile

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Let Them Chirp Awhile

Jonathan Blitstein 2007

Categories: Narrative Feature

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Rated 3.858277655527304/5 Stars

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Run time: 91 min. | U S A

Let Them Chirp Awhile follows Bobby, a struggling screenwriter taking care of a feisty Jack Russell puppy because of a deal he made with a girl he's hoping to sleep with. During a month of every day life in New York City, Bobby grapples with his womanizer friend Scott and a foe Hart Carlton, who steals Bobby's screenplay ideas and puts them into a campy morality play about 9-11. All of this occurs while Bobby has several failed relationships of his own. What results is a social-satire about moral-relativism, self-reliance, authorship and authenticity and an homage to Vittorio De Sica's 1952 Italian neo-realist gem 'Umberto D.' Let Them Chirp Awhile is a stylized art-film comedy with the fearless spirit of 1970's Cinema.

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7:20 PM Sat, Apr 12	Landmark Midtown #7	+ add to cal	buy tickets
2:45 PM Mon, Apr 14	Landmark Midtown #8	+ add to cal	buy tickets

About the film

Cast & Crew

director	Jonathan Blitstein

Cast	Anthony Rapp Brendan Sexton III Justin Rice Laura Breckenridge Pepper Binkley Zach Galligan

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Rated 3.0/5 Stars 1 2 3 4 5 jaycbird 5:35 AM		Oddly enough, as I write this, I can not say I remember much from this film - an unfortunate, though not unexpected occurrence in a film festival setting. However, I do know I enjoyed it as it was unspooling before me. It is a relatively gentle experience, comparative to Woody Allen, or even De Sica, from which he quotes UMBERTO D. Director Jonathan Blitstein showed a clever visual panache and lovely sense of pacing. His characters were well drawn, yet the overall gentleness of the screenplay lacked a memorable edge. I think the piece would be best served screened outside of a festival experience. Blitstein is definitely someone to keep an eye out for. http://jaycbird.blogspot.com