39 Pounds of Love is currently playing in NYC. Opens in LA Dec 2nd. Why do I keep talking about this movie?!

Yesterday I saw Good Night, and Good Luck and I was struck by Edward R. Murrow‘s speech that both begins and ends the film. Murrow’s investigative journalism was controversial and innovative in the 50s and 60s. He attacked his stories with a passion that was rooted deeply in his heart and morals, to bring real […]

People who take their shoes off.

People who talk at FULL volume WHILE the movie is showing.

On Saturday night a few friends and me went to the Media Action Project in Los Angeles to see Wal-Mart: the high cost of low price, the new documentary from Robert Greenwald. Greenwald’s previous works include, Unprecedented, Unconstitutional, Uncovered and Outfoxed. All of these films have used alternative means of distribution to get past the […]

I was talking with a friend the other night about a film she is involved with, her fiancé wrote the project. They are waiting to see if the film got into Sundance. Now is the time for waiting. American, World and Competition films announced Nov 28th. All Feature films announced Nov 29th. All Short films […]

Before I started attending the Academy’s Oscar’s Docs series I thought I would have something to say every week. And…surprisingly…I haven’t. We are now closer to the end of the series than the beginning and I’m still leaving the screenings trying to think of something to write about besides the plain ole history. The series […]

People who mooooove into the theater. They take up two or three seats with all of their gear and then proceed to put their feet up over the seat in front of them – that’s 4 seats they’re using!

Day 10 I attended the TIMESTALKS 2 – The War Documentary: A Panel Discussion with Eugene Jarecki, Stephen Marshall, Jehane Noujaim, Michael Tucker, Garrett Scott and moderated by New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzonati. Admittedly I walked in 30 minutes late, but it seemed to me the panel was really more about why these […]

People who get up 5 minutes into a movie after we’ve been sitting there 30 minutes for it to start. Where are the going? They always come back. Why didn’t they go while we were waiting? It’s a wonder…