April 1, 2013 Playback: Agnes Varda's 'The Beaches of Agnes' Agnes Varda's The Beaches of Agnes. Courtesy of The Cinema Guild Sometimes a documentary not only inspires you, but also gives you courage. I was Read more
February 1, 2013 Playback: Scott Hicks' 'Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts' "You're late ." The bus driver, normally easy-going in his cowboy boots, is furious. For the past two years, he has faithfully carted my daughter to Read more
January 12, 2013 Heddy Honigmann's 'Crazy' I first saw Heddy Honigmann's film Crazy at a retrospective of her work at New York's Museum of Modern Art. I went into the screening expecting a war Read more
August 15, 2012 Playback: Nicholas Philibert's 'Etre et Avoir' One year into making my first documentary, Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon , I lost everything. Not in the literal sense; I still had a Read more
March 14, 2012 Peter Davis' 'Hearts and Minds' In the fall of 1971, my friends and I gathered in our college dorm to listen to the radio as our draft lottery numbers were drawn. Since the Vietnam Read more
February 22, 2012 Playback: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter's 'Cosmos' In 1980, I had pimples and braces. The teachers at Kellogg Middle School in Seattle occasionally said something interesting, but mostly the classroom Read more
February 12, 2012 Barbara Kopple's 'Harlan County USA' When I first saw documentaries, I made two exciting discoveries: Men and women were making movies about the people I was curious about, but with whom Read more
February 28, 2011 Playback: Terry Zwigoff's 'Crumb' I saw Crumb , Terry Zwigoff's portrait of the artist R. Crumb, in 1994 at a packed New York Film Festival press screening where the only seat Read more
February 22, 2011 Jim McBride, L.M. Kit Carson and Michael Wadleigh's 'David Holzman's Diary' In the fall of 1968, I saw David Holzman's Diary (Jim McBride, L.M. Kit Carson, Michael Wadleigh) at New York University Film School. McBride's team Read more
January 17, 2011 Kim Longinotto's 'Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go' This feature doc is a very quiet film but one of the most beautiful, moving and masterful out there. It is, like many of Kim Longinotto's films, Read more