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BCP Scene: Fire! – Last Days of May

geo — Fri, 02 Oct 1998 01:00:13 +0000

(1:45 minute excerpt)
Mom’s sleepover guest gets a rude awakening.

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Family Dinner Gone Wrong

................Fire!!!

Drunken Quarters Game

Last Days of May

AFI Award Win

Spyros Awarded NYFA Fellowship

NYSC Grant goes to 'Last Days of May'

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Fire Scene from Last Days of May as seen in our 2002 Flash Website

2002 Legacy Website: Features & Shorts

To explore the interactive & animated, flash website CLICK HERE.

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BCP Scene: Drunken Bar Quarters Game – Last Days of May

geo — Thu, 01 Oct 1998 16:24:25 +0000

(2:50 minute excerpt)
A bar game leads to a battle of wills between mother and daughter.

MORE Last Days of May, independent feature written & directed by George Spyros

Family Dinner Gone Wrong

................Fire!!!

Drunken Quarters Game

Last Days of May

AFI Award Win

Spyros Awarded NYFA Fellowship

NYSC Grant goes to 'Last Days of May'

_________________________________________________________________

Quarters Game Scene from Last Days of May as seen in our 2002 Flash Website

2002 Legacy Website: Features & Shorts

To explore the interactive & animated, flash website CLICK HERE.

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Last Days of May – Independent Feature Film by George Spyros

geo — Thu, 23 Oct 1997 04:41:45 +0000

Written and directed by George Spyros, this independent feature received a New York State Council on the Arts grant as well as the Screen Actors Guild Best Actress Award at the 1999 American Film Institute Film Festival. In the same year, Spyros received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for the film.

[Super 16/35mm, 93 minutes]

In a series of staggeringly real and emotionally expansive sequences, filmmaker George Spyros has crafted an unflinching, unpatronizing, and deep-hearted portrait of a mentally unstable woman trying to cope with everyday life. May, a nursery school teacher with a history of nervous breakdowns, has a very co-dependent relationship with Pat, her cynical, over-protective, but deeply caring mother. They tangle up each other’s lives — Pat’s work suffers from May’s constant interruptions, while May allows her self-confidence to be corrupted by Pat’s fears of relapse. When Pat’s friend Rosie suggests setting May up with her “brother’s wife’s nephew,” Tom, Pat reluctantly agrees — as long as she can supervise. Although the date’s a fiasco, Tom is attracted to the waif-like May. Mistaking her fragile state of mind as simply nervous kookiness, Tom is surprised when faced with the full display of her emotional distress — surprised, but not deterred. In a masterful, extended final scene, a family gathering brings all scars to the surface of the skin. With heart-fixing performances from all the leads, and a screenplay charged with the elliptical, tangential nature of real conversation, Last Days of May introduces an independent filmmaker worthy of comparison to John Cassavetes or Mike Leigh.

– Andrew Smith, Philadelphia Film Festival

MORE Last Days of May, independent feature written & directed by George Spyros

Family Dinner Gone Wrong

................Fire!!!

Drunken Quarters Game

Last Days of May

AFI Award Win

Spyros Awarded NYFA Fellowship

NYSC Grant goes to 'Last Days of May'

_________________________________________________________________

Last Days of May as seen in our 2002 Flash Website

2002 Legacy Website: Features & Shorts