Sunday, April 18, 1999
'Catcher' contingent travels to L.A.
BY MARGARET A. McGURK
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LOS ANGELES — At 4:25 p.m. today Pacific time, the lights will go down in the Director's Guild of America theater on Sunset Boulevard, and The Dream Catcher will unspool for the first time before a public audience.
That's the plan, anyway.
Less than a week before the scheduled premiere, the final print was still being processed at the DuArt Film & Video lab in New York, where the 16mm original was sent to be transferred to 35mm film for exhibition.
“As it stands, the print's probably going to be wet as we run it through the projector,” director Ed Radtke said Monday. “Of course that would be the ultimate nightmare — if the print doesn't show up at the theater on Sunday. ...I'm not even going to have a chance to see it before it screens.”
Aside from the Los Angeles viewers, the audience for the film will include a sizable Dream Catcher contingent. In addition to producers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar and editor Jim Klein, Mr. Radtke said he is expecting his writing partner Marc Nieson from Minnesota, his parents, brother and other relatives from Ohio and elsewhere, the movie's lead actors Maurice Compte and Paddy Connor, plus several crew members, including cinematographer Terry Stacey.
The filmmakers plan to keep busy in Los Angeles with events such as a digital moviemaking demonstration, receptions and an informal reunion of Wright State University alumni working in the movie business.
Then, they will head directly to New York for Thursday's “Independents Night” screening of The Dream Catcher at the Walter Reade Theater in the Lincoln Center.
For all the excitement of the adventure, however, the filmmakers are still operating on precariously slender margins.
Mr. Radtke, for example, is traveling to the bicoastal screenings courtesy of a friend who donated frequent flier miles — but only enough to get him from Dayton to Los Angeles to New York.
“I don't know how I'm gonna go home,” Mr. Radtke said. “If I have to buy a ticket on Greyhound or hitchhike, so be it.”
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