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This year's most optimistic filmmaker...

Nothing like confidence in your product: This year's award for the most optimistic filmmakers goes to the people responsible for Lightning Salad Moving Picture, who put a sign in the Charles Theatre lobby Friday urging people not to start pitching tents, to be sure they'd get into the movie's 6:30 p.m. screening Saturday, before midnight.

Sadly, not a single tent seems to have been pitched.

But festival Membership Manager Lucia Treasure, who's seen the movie, said it's awesome. Which is all the praise any filmmaker should need.

Posted by Chris Kaltenbach on May 9, 2009 3:20 PM | Permalink

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Lightning Salad Moving Picture is the worst movie I've ever seen. If the actors had amused the audience half as much as they amused themselves, LSMP would have been hysterical!

Posted by: carson | May 11, 2009 1:44 PM

If you didn't like this film, you mustn't have a good sense of humor. I found it delightfully refreshing and full of genuine laughs.

Didn't your mama teach you if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all?

Posted by: meg | May 11, 2009 8:50 PM

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Michael Sragow saw the greatest movie ever made, The Wild Bunch, six times in two weeks in 1969 and has been arguing about it and other movies in print ever since. He has been a movie critic for the Sun since 2001 and a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1989. He is the author of Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master (Pantheon, 2008).

Chris Kaltenbach has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 1982 -- the same year Barry Levinson's Diner was released. For the past 15 years, he has been writing off-and-on about the movies, as both a critic and reporter. He has spent more time watching movies at the last 10 Maryland Film Festivals than probably anyone else.

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