what is "talking about the weather"?

on Joan Jett's wiki page it lists it, and her role is listed as "?"


link

I found the website for this Film Arts Festival thing, but it directs me to some London hotels website, see it for yourselves:

www.filmarts.org/


Also here's another website where I found the URL, I don't know if it is the same festival but it says that it is a festival of "independent cinema" so I guess it is?

www.filmfestivals.com/festival/film_arts_festival_of_independent_cinema

Ok so I just did a little more research on these three people:

Nancy Kates seems to be quite a personality, acording to her wikipedia page, she's an independent filmmaker, not only an actress, and she's been awarded several times since 1993, so it seems that her IMBd page (at least the one featured on the Talking About the Weather page) isn't accurate at all. Oddly enough, there is no mention of Talking About the Weather nor Carl Forest Sandler

Rikaard Dam Olafsson didn't have any results either, just a bunch of random stuff

As for Carl Forest Sandler, I decided to put his name on google one more time, and I found an article about him in some movie festival website (not the Film Arts Festival though), and everything it says is "Carl Forest Sandler studied economics in California and worked until his début as assistant editor, scriptwriter and producer." and that's it, the only film listed in his filmography is, you guessed it, Talking About the Weather. I'll leave all the relevant URLs for you to check them out, maybe you'll spot something that I didn't notice

Kates' wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kates

Sandler's article: iffr.com/en/persons/carl-forest-sandler

Who knows?, but if that's the case, how did Joan Jett, THE Joan Jett ended up in it if it was just some random independent 11 minutes short movie for some forgotten independent movie festival?

Interesting stuff. Glad to see people are still digging up fresh things from so many years ago.

I forgot to mention that I also searched that dudes making love pic from the IMBd page on google and I had no matches, also here are the relevant links I found:

The OTHER Talking About the Weather page: m.imdb.com/title/tt0111358/?ref_=m_nm_knf_i1


List of movies made in 1994: www.imdb.com/search/title?keywords=independent-film&year=1994,1994&view=simple&sort=moviemeter,asc&page=17&ref_=adv_nxt

(Is interesting to mention that, out of 884 movies, Talking About the Weather is on the position number 834 in popularity, so it was definitely seen by someone)

So I decided to check other movie databases besides IMBd to try and get more information about Talking About the Weather, like more members of the crew, exact locations, and so on, and guess what? I hit the jackpot!.. Sort of

I found this russian website called my-hit.org, and they also have a page for Talking About the Weather, just as the IMBd one it's pretty limited, but it has a tiny bit more of information about its crew

It lists two more people who aren't mentioned on the IMBd page: the first one being some russian dude called Andrew Blair (Эндрю Блэр) as the operator)?, since this is a russian fella is really hard to find information about him, since, you know, google translations aren't exactly good, however, fot what I could gather, his first work (as an actor) was in some 1987 mini series called Diary of Anne Frank, and his last work (as an operator) was in some 2013 documentary (I believe) called Islands of Sanctuary. I searched for his name on IMBd and I only got 2 matches, one was some actor who doesn't seem to be our guy, and the other one was another seemingly unrelated actor, however, according to his my-hit filmography page. he has worked on 5 films as an actor, and 17 movies as an operator (I don't know if I'm getting the "operator" part correctly, again, google translations aren't good), being the most recent one Islands of Sanctuary, and the first one Talking About the Weather. Oddly, Diary of Anne Frank has an IMBd page, but Blair isn't credited on it. Since this is a russian dude it might be difficult to get more accurate information about him, so I'll keep investigating him later

As for the second member of the crew, his name is David E. Johnston, and he is listed as the composer. His my-hit page has literally no more information other than his name and a link to his filmography, which only credits him for Talking About the Weather, however, unlike Andrew Blair, he does have an IMBd page, and he's credited for 3 works: a short called Lifesaver where he worked as writer, composer, actor and director, a 1993 short called Lush Life (not to be confused with the movie of the same name and year starring Jeff Goldblum), and, of course, Talking About the Weather.
Lifesaver has an IMBd page but no information on it, and a quick google search only matched me with some life savers comercial (you know, the candies) and he isn't credited as the director, so I don't think that's what we're looking for
Is hard to find information about Lush Life because, again, a bigger movie of the same name was released on the same year, however, Johnston's Lush Life also has an IMBd page, it contains a few details about the film, like the cast members and even its budget, however the most interesting part is its storyline, which contains a short review that says: "Dennis Conroy and David E. Johnston's beautifully shot Lush Life is a representation of voyeurism, sad-masochistic fantasy and masturbatory hallucinations. - festival program" so... yeah, that's... interesting...

This Johnston guy seems to be a bit more famous, so I guess I'll research him a little more later, since I'd like to confirm his participation in Talking About the Weather, as well as the russian guy. And as always here are the relevant links:

Talking About the Weather on my-hit: my-hit.org/film/266629/

Andrew Blair's my-hit page: my-hit.org/star/72194/

Blair's filmography on my-hit: my-hit.org/star/72194/filmography/

David E.Johnston's my-hit page: my-hit.org/star/675712/

Johnston's filmography on my-hit: my-hit.org/star/675712/filmography/

Johnston's IMBd page: www.imdb.com/name/nm0426597/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Lifesaver IMBd page: www.imdb.com/title/tt3784260/?ref_=nmbio_mbio

Unrelated life savers commercial (Just in case): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce-kS3F0rP4

Jonhston's Lush Life IMBd page: www.imdb.com/title/tt3085590/?ref_=nmbio_mbio