ARRI Rental has expanded its service offerings in Vienna, Austria, with the opening of a new facility supplying lighting and grip equipment as well as logistics to productions of all types and sizes. Camera equipment will continue to be offered through the existing ARRI Rental Vienna office.
The new ARRI Rental facility is located on the premises of the state-of-the-art hq7 studios complex, which will open this summer as a premiere European production center, capable of accommodating major international film and TV productions. The area is ideal for easy access to the airport, central station, and city center.
ARRI Rental’s new Vienna facility covers 750 square meters of floor space and can supply cutting-edge lighting and grip equipment, including the latest ARRI lighting fixtures such as SkyPanel X and Orbiter, as well as ARRI Rental exclusives such as the modular BrikLok LED lights, all-terrain HEXATRON crane vehicle, and compact Hover Dolly with versatile Delta Tracks.
As head of ARRI Rental Vienna, Andreas Buchschachner will manage the new facility in addition to the existing one, supported by lighting expert Ingo Gaertner. Buchschachner commented, “By expanding our presence in Vienna, we are demonstrating our belief in the city as a major European production hub. We have been renting equipment in Vienna for many years and we have strong relationships here; we’re proud to be supporting the local industry as it continues to grow.”
ARRI Rental Vienna (Lighting and Grip, Logistics) is now open for business.
Review: Director-Writer Megan Park’s “My Old Ass”
They say tripping on psychedelic mushrooms triggers hallucinations, anxiety, paranoia and nervousness. In the case of Elliott, an 18-year-old restless Canadian, they prompt a visitor.
"Dude, I'm you," says the guest, as she nonchalantly burns a 'smores on a campfire next to a very high and stunned Elliott. "Well, I'm a 39-year-old you. What's up?"
What's up, indeed: Director-writer Megan Park has crafted a wistful coming-of-age tale using this comedic device for "My Old Ass" and the results are uneven even though she nails the landing.
After the older Elliott proves who she is — they share a particular scar, childhood memories and a smaller left boob — the time-travel advice begins: Be nice to your brothers and mom, and stay away from a guy named Chad.
"Can we hug?" asks the older Elliott. They do. "This is so weird," says the younger Elliott, who then makes things even weirder when she asks for a kiss — to know what it's like kissing yourself. The older Elliott soon puts her number into the younger's phone under the name "My Old Ass." Then they keep in touch, long after the effects of the 'shrooms have gone.
Part of the movie's problem that can't be ignored is that the two Elliotts look nothing alike. Maisy Stella plays the coltish young version and a wry Aubrey Plaza the older. Both turn in fine performances but the visuals are slowly grating.
The arrival of the older Elliott coincides with her younger self counting down the days until she can flee from her small town of 300 in the Muskoka Lakes region to college in Toronto, where "my life is about to start." She's sick of life on a cranberry farm.
Park's scenes and dialogue are unrushed and honest as Elliott takes her older self's advice and tries to repair... Read More