Book Blog

Well, here I am winding down the last hour of my volunteer shift at the box office. Pretty quiet out here. I guess the new ticketing rules are helping cut down on the daily crowds. It being Saturday I actually got to see some morning and afternoon shows. Nonetheless, I didn't get to see everything. And so. The list of the unseen:

• Thunder Soul
• The Mirror
• An Injury to One
• The Invention of Dr. Nakamatsu - I think just the preview.
• Life Extended
• Dirty Business: Clean Coal
• Seltzer Works
• Capital - there is a trailer on their website.
• I am Secretly an Important Man

These ones didn't get away:

• Chairmaker - You can buy it on Appalshop's website. Lovely little remastered film about an 80 year old chairmaker in rural Kentucky. Very good, pretty short.
• John and Jane - a preview. What can I say? Well, having been to India once myself for a little spell I found it just entrancing. The film documents several people that work for a call center (The 4th Dimension, which felt fitting to me!) in India. Beautiful footage, interesting characters. Unfortunately, too many characters. Too many characters, or too too much time on each one.
• Taylor Chain - excellent b/w documentary of unionizing of chain factory circa the early seventies.
• Live Nude Girls UNITE! - I guess you can buy it. Pretty good first person narrative of the fight to Unionize a strip club in San Francisco. Somewhat stilted in its polarized lens of 'the company' vs 'the worker'. But good.

I know I know. I already posted today. But that was for yesterday, so. This is a post of regret. Things already gone, that I probably won't ever get to see. So, the List Of theonesthatgotaway:

Thursday

• Diary of a Times Square Thief - all is not lost, its on netflix (sort of not really).
• Photo & Copyright by GP Fieret - well, here's a preview anyway.
• Kings of Pastry - yeah, its on netflix(uh, sort of. You can 'ask for it'. Its on their radar)!
• Disco and Atomic War - preview
• Coal Miner: Frank Jackson - I guess you could buy it from Appalshop.

Okay, and since after all this research I actually CAN see some things:

• The Wobblies - netflix and google video.
• Photograph of Jesus - see it on vimeo.
• Man Push Cart - it IS on netflix (even instant)!
• The Global Assembly Line

I'm volunteering with the box office team at the Full Frame Festival this week. Last night was my first shift, which was crazy busy. Or so I thought. The first passholder I witnessed at the box office was a North-Eastern woman, irate because she couldn't get into the opening night show. Understandable. At $200 for a standar Festival Pass I suppose it would be upsetting to find yourself stuck in the 'last minute line', watching those rabble-ish general public getting into the movie ahead of you with a mere $10. There were a number of ugly arguments throughout the night about that issue. All about Kings of Pastry. I hope it wins something, I'd like to see it too.

• Photograph of Jesus
• The Poodle Trainer (I was hoping), but no...youtube is still fun.

Last night I saw The Thorn in the Heart. Its a sweet peice that takes a retrospective look with a woman who ran little schools in villages of France (I think? subtitles, yes, and flowery language). Every now and then I wondered, am I getting bored? And then she'd say something too funny, too cute, and mixed chuckling floated out of the audience.

Today? Live Girls UNITE for sure, and maybe The Chairmaker