Reprinted from Issue # 756
"Another local feature of note is M. David Lee III's Dog Me: Potluck (Tuesday, October 28th, 7pm.;100 minutes), a naturalistic ensemble comedy from a filmmaker some may better recognize as the sports anchor at WHBQ-TV Channel 13. Dog Me: Potluck rather dubiously claims to be a Dogme95 film. (It makes a great show of scrolling through the Dogme manifesto at the outset, only to break one Dogme commandment... the restriction against music that doesn't emanate from an on-screen source... in the film's opening seconds.) But taken on its own terms, it is quite engaging. The film is a little slow in setting up its central house-party conceit, but once all the characters are in place, it's as smoothly directed and acted as any local feature in recent years, having some of the same character- and dialogue driven charms as the recent indie hit The Anniversary Party."
Chris Herrington
Memphis Flyer
"Another local feature of note is M. David Lee III's Dog Me: Potluck (Tuesday, October 28th, 7pm.;100 minutes), a naturalistic ensemble comedy from a filmmaker some may better recognize as the sports anchor at WHBQ-TV Channel 13. Dog Me: Potluck rather dubiously claims to be a Dogme95 film. (It makes a great show of scrolling through the Dogme manifesto at the outset, only to break one Dogme commandment... the restriction against music that doesn't emanate from an on-screen source... in the film's opening seconds.) But taken on its own terms, it is quite engaging. The film is a little slow in setting up its central house-party conceit, but once all the characters are in place, it's as smoothly directed and acted as any local feature in recent years, having some of the same character- and dialogue driven charms as the recent indie hit The Anniversary Party."
Chris Herrington
Memphis Flyer
