Rid Of Me - Reviews

Line for Rid Of Me in NYC opening weekend

Slew of great reviews for Rid Of Me which opened LAST NIGHT at Cinema Village in NYC and plays throughout the week! So excited to be a part of this film!

• Film Journal
• New York Times
• Backstage.com
• Indiewire Women and Hollywood
• New City Film

Watch a new clip from the movie on HULU.
Video blog of the NYC promotion effort on Oregon Confluence.

Updated less than 4 hours ago	Positive Reviews
Happy Feet Two	59.7%	WIDE
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1	46.6%	WIDE
The Descendants	86.4%	Key Cities
Tomboy (2011)	81.7%	NYC
Buried Prayers	72.7%	NYC
Eames: The Architect And The Painter	71.0%	Limited
In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery	67.9%	NYC
The Lie (2011)	64.8%	NYC
Tyrannosaur	64.4%	Limited
King of Devil's Island (Kongen av Bastøy)	62.5%	NYC
Garbo: The Spy	62.0%	NYC
Rid of Me	59.0%	NYC
Another Happy Day	50.9%	NYC/LA
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch	48.6%	NY/LA/SF
Laredoans Speak: Voices of a South Texas Border City	30.9%	NYC/LA
Average:	51.8%

This is the kind of film that develops cult followings. People either love it or hate it, there is no middle ground. Have you seen it? What are your thoughts?

Rid Of Me: Full on Marketing Campaign

Good movies do not just "make it" magically. They take YEARS of hard work with everyone lending a hand where they can. This little-big indie film has beaten the odds... and is opening in theaters in NYC THIS WEEKEND! This film can not compete with the advertisement campaigns of big budget studio movies but we have a shot... and WE NEED YOUR HELP!!

If you are in the NYC area, or have family or friends who live there, please suggest they catch a screening of Rid Of Me THIS WEEKEND (11/18/11) or next week! You will want to buy pre-sale tickets, we expect the weekend to SELL OUT. Tickets can be found HERE for Cinema Village (22 East 12th), NYC

More ROM COOL STUFF:

• Rid Of Me Trailer on iTunes (also shown above)
• Rid Of Me screens in Chicago
• Rid Of Me screens in Amsterdam as part of "Best of Tribeca"
• HeGotRidOfMe.com - A "sweet" tie in website!
• Review of ROM: TrustMovies
• Official Website: ridofmemovie.com
• Clip from ROM on Rotten Tomatoes!
• DEMAND IT! Want ROM to play in YOUR town??

Rid of Me premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to rave reviews:

"Bracingly Original!"
-John Anderson, Variety

"A Tour-De-Force performance by Katie O'Grady"
-ST VanAirsDale, Movieline

"MEAN GIRLS for adults! Few recent movies are as darly funny."
-Steven Zeitchik, LA Times

"Cheerfully Obscene, hip and wickedly funny! Director James Westby is a talent on the march."
-Ericka Abeel, Huffington Post

To date, ROM has won:

• Best of the NW at the Bend Film Festival 
• Best US Fictional Narrative at the Traverse City Film Festival 
• Best Screenplay at the San Diego Film Festival 

Film Synopsis: (Although really, these never do films justice)
RID OF ME, a black comedy that follows Meris, an awkward young woman trying too hard to perfect her marriage, amongst a new group of friends. RID OF ME follows Meris'rejection from the cool crowd down a path towards truth and salvation which includes a job at a local candy shop, a group of punk friends, community gardening and a newfound love for Cambodian rock music.

NEW YORK!! We need you to fill those seats! Don't wait! Make a night out of it and be the first to see Rid Of Me! Are you convinced yet??!

Premiers in Portland and Los Angeles are coming up. If we get the word out and pack theater seats in NYC, we may secure a much wider theatrical release!!

Children's Games

So on Friday, I was sitting with the band in the studio mixing room at Scenic Burrows in NW Portland, listening to the unmixed version of our latest track destined to be the end credits theme for upcoming film Nightscape, when our drummer Jeff said, "Hey your picture is in the paper."

 To which I replied, "What?!!"

 Then he showed me the following article. (I assure you the picture makes perfect sense in context).

Tonight is the last night to catch the show, I will be there tonight to check it out for myself!

AnOther Magazine (Scanned Images)

A while ago I did a photo shoot/story for AnOther Magazine. I posted a blog HERE at the time. It's taken me ages, but I finally got around to getting the pages from the magazine scanned. For the shoot, we traveled all around the outskirts of Portland, Oregon from abandoned buildings, beaches, and space ships to magic overgrown gardens. It was nice to be roughed up, dirty, and punk rock for this shoot vs. normal shoots where every hair has to be in the right place. Here are a few pages from the spread that I am in:

By the way... 
Dear AnOther Magazine, if you read this: The only copy of the magazine I have is one my mom found in a magazine shop and bought. I would love it if you could send me a copy, and I know the other girls in the shoot would like a copy as well. Email me at emilygalash at yahoo dot com for a mailing address. Thanks!! -Emily