SCREEN TIME
My son, Isaiah Saxon, grew up in Aptos. He is now 42 and his first feature film, The Legend of Ochi, produced by A24, is getting released this week.
I thought you might want to write a story about his path from making his first long film, Revolt, about the skateboarding culture in Santa Cruz that he released when he graduated from Aptos High, to making Bjork’s music video “Wanderlust,” to finally finishing his first feature film. He worked on writing the script for eight years; it took one month to film in the mountains of Romania, then two years to perfect the CG work.
The movie stars Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Helena Zengel and Finn Wolfhard. Here is the trailer released by A24: youtube.com/watch?v=_jTFLg3arYU
The Legend of Ochi will be premiering in Santa Cruz on the 24th at the Capitola Cinelux at 6:30. Strangely enough, there don’t seem to be any other showings in Santa Cruz yet. Maybe you could fix this!
Kitty Mrache
BORN AGAIN
I am a local musician, actor and writer who has been featured in Good Times numerous times since I first moved to Santa Cruz in 1977, although not recently. A short time ago I was surprised and thrilled to learn that a song I had written and recorded with my L.A. college folk-rock band, Stourbridge Lion, in 1968 has just been released for the first time by Cherry Red Records in the UK as part of a three-CD set titled “Jingle Jangle Morning: The 1960s Folk-Rock Explosion.”
It is incredible that my recording of this song has been released 57 years after it was recorded. (Visit cherryred.co.uk.) I think there is a story here that might be of interest to local readers. Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
Mark Bradlyn
ONLINE COMMENTS
BATTERY PROBLEMS
The fire department has said that they have no way to stop a runaway lithium battery fire. All they can do is wet the areas around the battery fire and watch it burn. The chemicals and gasses are also some of the most poisonous ever created. This technology has a proven track record of being unsafe, causing death and destruction and should not be allowed to be deployed in our communities.
Dudley Lewis
