Sweaty Robot

‘Happy Birthday Harris Malden’ played twice at the CineVegas 2008 Film Festival. Read some of the reactions to the film, and interviews done with Sweaty Robot.


Reviews

Don Lewis from FilmThreat.com writes…

“…the film is really funny as long as you realize there’s a kind of straight-faced silliness to the whole affair much like the films of the Zellner Brothers or even Charlie Kaufman. If you enjoy that kind of off-the-wall humor, “Happy Birthday, Harris Malden” can’t miss.” [Read Full FilmThreat review here]



Eric D. Snider from Cinematical…

But most of the jokes do work. As you might expect given the film’s premise, the Sweaty Robot guys are fond of absurd, surreal humor, though they’re careful not to let the movie become too bizarre. [Read the full Cinematical review here]



Cal Kemp at Collider…

Somehow, “Harris Malden” is both down to earth and over the top. It’s sweet, funny and real in a way that only fiction can be. [Read the full Collider review here]



David Cornelius with eFilmCritic…

I admire the way the filmmakers manage to have so much going on at once, with natural, overlapping dialogue filling each scene with an Altman-esque collage of story and character. [Read the full eFilmCritic review here]



Even the bloggers got into the fray…

LOVED this movie!! LOVED IT! this is the 2nd film that really made me happy to be at CineVegas. [Read full review here]



Interviews
[Collider Interview]
[ReelzChannel Interview]
[Fox Las Vegas Video Interview]
[eFilmCritic Interview]

That was awesome.
Photos, reviews, and more to come…

We did an interview for the CineVegas Blog. Here’s a little taste…

What is a real Sweaty Robot? So many pictures come to mind.
Picture the group in our underwear after an All-You-Can-Eat Seafood Bonanza, each sitting on their own tiny, tiny mechanical horse on a hot summer day in the middle of the parking lot of a Pay-None convenience store. Is that what you were imagining?



You know you want to read the rest.

Andrea Bushee, correspondent for the Nashua Telegraph, wrote an article about Sweaty Robot and “Happy Birthday Harris Malden” with a focus on Eric, due to his New Hampshire-osity. Extra, extra, read all about it.

The article showed up as the front page of the Lifestyle section, with a big picture of the guys looming over the words beneath.

World renowned film critic, Michael Lau had this to say:

He saw the film and says he was entertained the whole way through.
“I loved it. I thought it was a great movie,” Lau said…
Lau thinks the movie will go over well in Las Vegas.
“I think they told the story in a unique way,” he said. “It wasn’t the typical storytelling platform.”

Mike Plante of the CineVegas Film Festival had some good things to say about Sweaty Robot in his interview with BACKSTAGE.

A few selections will be of particular interest to actors. Happy Birthday, Harris Malden, which screens in the fest’s Jackpot Premieres section, was made by a five-man group that goes by the name of SweatyRobot. “It’s five guys working together, and they’re all credited as the directors, and they wrote it together, and four of them act in it, and one of them actually did the cinematography,” says Plante. “It feels like a full story, and there are really rounded characters; it’s not just like a five-minute skit that’s stretched out. And since they worked on all aspects of the film, it’s low-budget, but it doesn’t feel like it’s trapped or limited; it feels like there’s a lot of work put into it.”

Thanks Mike, that means a lot to us.

To those attending the “Happy Birthday Harris Malden” screenings at CineVegas, our screening times have changed.

World Premiere: Saturday, 6/14 at 6 p.m.
Second Screening: Monday, 6/16 at 7 p.m.

Our IMDb page is online. For those of you looking for your credit, IMDb is slow to update. It’ll be there soon.

We are proud to announce that Sweaty Robot’s feature film, “Happy Birthday Harris Malden” will world premiere Friday, June 13 as a Jackpot Premiere at the Cinevegas 2008 Film Festival.

Follow this link to the HBHM website. There you’ll see a trailer, some behind-the-scenes footage, news, and production stills.

For those of you who still use Internet Explorer, you may have noticed that our website was broken since the last mini-redesign. Well, I fixed it. In the process, I probably broke it for some other browser on some other operating system.

It was a problem with the CSS that Firefox had no problem ignoring.
Are you an IE user? Maybe you should switch to Firefox. It’s better.