L.A. FILM FESTIVAL
Hello! I haven't written to you for a couple of weeks and I don't want you to be worried :) It's 11.30 p.m. and I just got back from the L.A. Film Festival and I feel that I really need to share my thoughts with someone, and you are probably the most appropriate person right now... I want to tell you how I spent the last two days, because pretty much you created them...
Yesterday night I met so many amazing people that I can't still believe it happened: in fact, I was at the "X-philes" dinner with people form everywhere, Florida, Canada, northern California, England (yes, Gia was with us!!) and so and so... we spent the night quoting lines from our favorite episodes, singing "Walking in Memphis" and "Joy to the World," making jokes about how you guys created a sexually frustrated generation (like my friend Francesca defines us)... in other words we had so much fun that you can't even imagine... ah, we also made interviews (I made one both in English and Italian... so, remember how much I humiliated myself for the show!!) in order to promote the movie...
Then the great event finally arrived, the event that everybody was waiting for, the event that allowed me to meet great fans (that are also great persons) but also you, David, and Chris. I'm at home right now and I'm trying to understand if it actually happend. Everything was so perfect, from the clip (ok, just let me say that I'm shocked, but I still trust you and my shipper soul won't freak out, don't worry) to your answers... you're totally right, we love the way you're keeping everything secret and you completely understood how much the fans love you guys and the show... we're still here and we will always be here, you saw us, you heard us screaming for every single word you said, and you saw that the X-philes are the most loyal fans ever!
I want to say thank you. I met great people and it seemed we had been friends since the high school just because we love the same show so much. I met you guys (David for the first time, and it was pretty intense!!) and I couldn't imagine something better. I had the poster with all the signatures and I'm going to sleep with it in a few minutes... what can I say? I signed the "thank-you-posters" (thank you Erica for your job!) but I feel I need to thank you again because this experience gave me so much.
Maybe we'll see you again at the London premiere (yes, it's time to go back in Europe for me... or, if you want, you can adopt me for the green card)... right now, the only thing that I can say is "thank you for having created my religion!!"
Carlotta
(the crazy italian girl STILL in California)
Hi Frank!
Apologies for this additional email (but how cool that you invite multiple emails from the same fans) as I had a question about the availability of the L.A. Film Festival clips. However, I also wanted to relay a fun little story:
My sister (who is 7 years younger than me) has been visiting from Florida for the past week. She was only 3 years old when the series premiered, and when I was at the height of my "X-Files" love -- catching up on the reruns that had only just begun on FX, and gearing up for "Fight the Future" to be released -- she would tease me relentlessly. "Enough with Scully," she would say, and roll her eyes. "Nobody wants to hear what Scully would do in this situation! Nobody cares!" Well, fast forward about 10 years. My sister was spending the night on my couch, and I was leaving for a work-related event just as she had plundered my DVD collection, which I had left out from having only just unearthed it myself. "I guess I'll see the movie," she said, examining the DVDs. "I just want to know what the hell the big deal was all those years." So I told her to watch a few of my favorite episodes, including the pilot. She shrugged and popped in a DVD as we both agreed that there was nothing good on TV on a Friday night. Then I left for my event. When I returned home around 2am, I found my sister STILL sitting on the couch, in the dark, and STILL watching "The X-Files." She actually looked a little like Scully watching those tapes from "Wetwired." Astonished, I asked her how many episodes she had watched while I was gone, and she answered, "7." Then she looked at me with bleary eyes and said, "I can't stop watching this. I literally cannot stop. Why do Mulder and Scully never kiss?"
Needless to say, my sister -- the one who used to tease me relentlessly -- is now completely hooked. Every day that she's been here visiting, I've come home to find her watching yet another episode of the show. And now, not only is she dying to see the new movie (she inisists that she's going to drag about 16 friends) we've also been able to connect on an adult level about something that was so big a part of my adolescence. So thank you, again, for creating something so enduring. It's a blast now to rediscover the show with my little sister.
That said, here's my question: Do you have any idea whether the clips shown at the L.A. Film Festival will be made available online? I live on the other coast and couldn't be at the event, but would love to see them.
Thanks again for reaching out to us fans! Still countining down the days until XF2!
Jaime
I actually just wanted to thank you so much for everything you've done for us [the fans]. I attended the L.A. Film Festival last night and was just blown away by, well... everything. I had a great time and absolutely LOVE the signed poster. I met a lot of new friends and doubt I would have had this experience without you. Thank you for keeping up such an informative blog, for being so accessible to the fans, and for your role in the making of the new movie. Thank you again.
Heather
Riverside, CA
I would like to say thank you for attending the L.A. Film Fest last night and for participating in the panel discussion, giving us some new, if vague insight into the movie. Also I would like to thank you for helping provide the posters that were given to us as we left the theatre, that went above and beyond the call of duty to your fans and I really appreciate it. Here's my question, I was wondering what your reaction to our reaction was? What does it feel like to you, Chris Carter and David Duchovny when hundreds of people are screaming and yelling at a venue like last evening's over something you made? I thought of this after we started yelling over seeing the place and time stamp on the clip much like in the ones in the episodes, what is it like for them being backstage and hearing that cheer? Any insight you feel like providing is most welcome. Thank you so much!
Marci
Monrovia, CA
The clips we showed last night will be made available (in a slightly shortened version) online. As you might imagine, last night was just great for the three of us and a lot of fun. We would like to thank you for your warm support and enthusiasm (and for the signed posters you gave us!). Coming back to "The X-Files" has been a wonderful experience for all of us.
Yesterday night I met so many amazing people that I can't still believe it happened: in fact, I was at the "X-philes" dinner with people form everywhere, Florida, Canada, northern California, England (yes, Gia was with us!!) and so and so... we spent the night quoting lines from our favorite episodes, singing "Walking in Memphis" and "Joy to the World," making jokes about how you guys created a sexually frustrated generation (like my friend Francesca defines us)... in other words we had so much fun that you can't even imagine... ah, we also made interviews (I made one both in English and Italian... so, remember how much I humiliated myself for the show!!) in order to promote the movie...
Then the great event finally arrived, the event that everybody was waiting for, the event that allowed me to meet great fans (that are also great persons) but also you, David, and Chris. I'm at home right now and I'm trying to understand if it actually happend. Everything was so perfect, from the clip (ok, just let me say that I'm shocked, but I still trust you and my shipper soul won't freak out, don't worry) to your answers... you're totally right, we love the way you're keeping everything secret and you completely understood how much the fans love you guys and the show... we're still here and we will always be here, you saw us, you heard us screaming for every single word you said, and you saw that the X-philes are the most loyal fans ever!
I want to say thank you. I met great people and it seemed we had been friends since the high school just because we love the same show so much. I met you guys (David for the first time, and it was pretty intense!!) and I couldn't imagine something better. I had the poster with all the signatures and I'm going to sleep with it in a few minutes... what can I say? I signed the "thank-you-posters" (thank you Erica for your job!) but I feel I need to thank you again because this experience gave me so much.
Maybe we'll see you again at the London premiere (yes, it's time to go back in Europe for me... or, if you want, you can adopt me for the green card)... right now, the only thing that I can say is "thank you for having created my religion!!"
Carlotta
(the crazy italian girl STILL in California)
Hi Frank!
Apologies for this additional email (but how cool that you invite multiple emails from the same fans) as I had a question about the availability of the L.A. Film Festival clips. However, I also wanted to relay a fun little story:
My sister (who is 7 years younger than me) has been visiting from Florida for the past week. She was only 3 years old when the series premiered, and when I was at the height of my "X-Files" love -- catching up on the reruns that had only just begun on FX, and gearing up for "Fight the Future" to be released -- she would tease me relentlessly. "Enough with Scully," she would say, and roll her eyes. "Nobody wants to hear what Scully would do in this situation! Nobody cares!" Well, fast forward about 10 years. My sister was spending the night on my couch, and I was leaving for a work-related event just as she had plundered my DVD collection, which I had left out from having only just unearthed it myself. "I guess I'll see the movie," she said, examining the DVDs. "I just want to know what the hell the big deal was all those years." So I told her to watch a few of my favorite episodes, including the pilot. She shrugged and popped in a DVD as we both agreed that there was nothing good on TV on a Friday night. Then I left for my event. When I returned home around 2am, I found my sister STILL sitting on the couch, in the dark, and STILL watching "The X-Files." She actually looked a little like Scully watching those tapes from "Wetwired." Astonished, I asked her how many episodes she had watched while I was gone, and she answered, "7." Then she looked at me with bleary eyes and said, "I can't stop watching this. I literally cannot stop. Why do Mulder and Scully never kiss?"
Needless to say, my sister -- the one who used to tease me relentlessly -- is now completely hooked. Every day that she's been here visiting, I've come home to find her watching yet another episode of the show. And now, not only is she dying to see the new movie (she inisists that she's going to drag about 16 friends) we've also been able to connect on an adult level about something that was so big a part of my adolescence. So thank you, again, for creating something so enduring. It's a blast now to rediscover the show with my little sister.
That said, here's my question: Do you have any idea whether the clips shown at the L.A. Film Festival will be made available online? I live on the other coast and couldn't be at the event, but would love to see them.
Thanks again for reaching out to us fans! Still countining down the days until XF2!
Jaime
I actually just wanted to thank you so much for everything you've done for us [the fans]. I attended the L.A. Film Festival last night and was just blown away by, well... everything. I had a great time and absolutely LOVE the signed poster. I met a lot of new friends and doubt I would have had this experience without you. Thank you for keeping up such an informative blog, for being so accessible to the fans, and for your role in the making of the new movie. Thank you again.
Heather
Riverside, CA
I would like to say thank you for attending the L.A. Film Fest last night and for participating in the panel discussion, giving us some new, if vague insight into the movie. Also I would like to thank you for helping provide the posters that were given to us as we left the theatre, that went above and beyond the call of duty to your fans and I really appreciate it. Here's my question, I was wondering what your reaction to our reaction was? What does it feel like to you, Chris Carter and David Duchovny when hundreds of people are screaming and yelling at a venue like last evening's over something you made? I thought of this after we started yelling over seeing the place and time stamp on the clip much like in the ones in the episodes, what is it like for them being backstage and hearing that cheer? Any insight you feel like providing is most welcome. Thank you so much!
Marci
Monrovia, CA
The clips we showed last night will be made available (in a slightly shortened version) online. As you might imagine, last night was just great for the three of us and a lot of fun. We would like to thank you for your warm support and enthusiasm (and for the signed posters you gave us!). Coming back to "The X-Files" has been a wonderful experience for all of us.
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