The Delegates

IndieWIRE, one of the leading online new sources for independent films did a little write-up about The Delegates this past week. Check it out:
“The Delegates”
Highlighting the Democratic National Convention, Cameron Hickey’s documentary promises to give a behind-the-scenes look at how the delegates experience the convention, while critiquing our democratic process.
Having focused on human rights and [...]

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Let’s browse various reactions of interest to last night’s Obamaspiel, shall we? It’s what we thought about back in the nine-hour interlude between our elated trudge away from Mile High Stadium and wondering who Sarah Palin is.

A copule of nice roundups and linkdumps and wordtubs and speaknotes from the Telegraph and the Guardian.
In the Globe [...]

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Stevie Wonder

Al Gore

Sun Going Down

Barack Obama

Fireworks

Barack and Michelle

Cameron and Lauren

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There will be parties tonight, to be sure, and even parties tomorrow.
The work of The Delegates crew is far from done — we’ve got lots of filming to do tomorrow, and we’ll be posting video and text about the delegates’ stories here in the coming days and weeks as we sift through all our material. [...]

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9:04 PM: Biden is so used to the spotlight, and Obama so chill, that they’re having an actual dinner-party-farewell conversation out there on the stage.
8:58 PM: No, a head-fake to the climax — not one where everyone’s up on their feet, but one where we’re hushed and thinking. The end comes as a surprise.
Some kind [...]

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7:08 PM: I thought that the Wave was a 70’s thing, but the Font of Truth tells us otherwise. Michael McDonald gets points for sticking to “America the Beautiful” and introducing his sideman.
7:05 PM: Michael McDonald and the Wave. What is this, 1975?
7:02 PM: Gore gets less enthusiastic applause on his departure than on his [...]

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Martin Luther King III is speaking, and it’s clear that the rhetorical apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
“On some questions, cowardice asks, is a position safe?  Expediency asks, is a position politic?  Vanity asks, is a position popular?  But, that something deep inside us called conscience asks, is a position right?
Sometime we must take [...]

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5:26 PM: Bill Richardson (coming up in an hour or so) will contrast Obama’s positions on the Iraq war and other foreign-policy issues with McCain’s.
5:18 PM: The texts of speeches are being chaotically handed about and they’re playing U2. My colleagues have pointed out that I don’t really like any of the musicians that have [...]

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From the expectations-management department, the general consensus is that Obama will focus on nuts-and-bolts economic issues:

Politico says that Obama has been studying three acceptance speeches in particular: John Kennedy’s from 1960, Ronald Reagan’s from 1980, and Bill Clinton’s from 1992.
The New York Times says that the speech will be “workmanlike” and evoke memories of Katrina [...]

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