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Cinema doesn’t interest me much unless I feel that pull of the ordinary, that thrill of real behavior leading, I hope, to those cathartic moments which seem to be the point of it all.
Movie-making maverick
February 20th, 2011
(Interview by Oakland Examiner's Will Viharo, Examiner.com) The term “maverick” is rather generously, if not erroneously, applied by the media to anyone who shoots off their mouths at inappropriate times, or who makes a loud point of being unconventional, even if their actual history is rather conformist. Bay Area filmmaker ...
Studio of the Streets
February 9th, 2011
Thanks to all of you who responded to our new initiative: Citizen Cinema: Studio of the Streets! Your contributions are not only important and welcome, they are essential to our survival. Remember that if you still want to support our program, laid out in my last letter, you can e-mail ...
Missive to the Washed
January 11th, 2011
Opinion rules the world. Except when looking into the Hubble telescope. To me this is the source of holy writ in our times. You see it at the end of NOISE from the 9 @ Night Film Series. The Tenderloin pan handler with his ...
Community of Collaborators
December 29th, 2010
I always thought “friend” signified a special intimacy and wasn’t to be bandied about as if it were synonymous with “popular.” To me it conveys something felt deeply, something more than simply respecting the others. It singles out. It identifies a bond. You don’t fool with it. ...
The 15,000
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I've always liked the slogan, "Opinion rules the world." The 15,000 is a chronicle of opinions I'd like to have more heft in the neighborhood. I've lived long enough to realize that silence has great value. I think it's the great growing space pregnant in the seed before it blooms. And then you talk.
Every month I'll be writing on a topic related to our films: production, distribution, exhibition. Or I'll follow inspiration, desperation and other burrs under the saddle to talk about cinema, art, society ... the gamut.
I'm hoping to hear your views. I only know my own and so I'm at a disadvantage. You are 15,000 and I am one. The only way we can make progress is if you are as candid as I try to be. If you make an honest effort to cut through the mist and tell the truths... read more
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