The Reeler Finds The Hamptons — Again

THE REELER saw THE UNFORESEEN at the recent Hamptons Film Festival where producer Bill Warren made an appearance. (Bill spent much of his own childhood in the Hamptons.)

Sunday was too stunning a day to be in a theater, but there I was at The Ross School, the first educational facility I’ve visited boasting both an indoor koi pond and bathrooms attuned for maximum feng shui. The projection booth could have used its own spiritual guide; a projector lamp burned out about eight minutes into Laura Dunn’s beautiful if obvious The Unforeseen, reducing the experience to a momentarily dark, drawling meditation on unchecked development in the suburbs of Austin, Tx. It really wasn’t much more than that once the picture was revived, but with a shooter like Lee Daniel filming his beloved Texas as poetically as ever, it hardly seemed to matter. Its festival life winding up as we speak, The Unforeseen premieres on the Sundance Channel in 2008.