Thursday, September 5, 2013

Day One: Beautiful Road Trips & An Enigma

The Great Beauty is an amazing Fellini-esque, mind and sensory blowing story of a man who has reached the pinnacle of status, class and culture in modern day Rome. Amazing art, both modern and classic, gorgeous views of Rome and a man who questions his life. LOVE this movie!

Exit Marrakech was directed by Caroline Link, who made the Academy Award-winning NOWHERE IN AFRICA. The German film follows a father and son whose relationship has been strained for years. The father is a theatre director producing a film in Morocco and the son comes to spend the summer. Their rift causes the son to take off and the father has to find him. Their road trips are a magnificent view of the Moroccan country-side. I've traveled there pretty extensively and its pretty enthralling.
SALINGER. I am and have always been a huge fan of J.D. Salingers work. Recently there have been a large number of biographical books, some veiled, some bordering on obsession. This film looks at both his life and some of his more obsessive fans and people who have been in his life. I read a book about his time as an infantryman in WWll and it was eye opening. This doc opens soon at Sundance Cinemas!

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