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Sonoma Intl Film Fest Survival Guide

April 16, 2010

If you are a filmmaker and you’re attending the Sonoma International Film Festival, you are in mortal danger. The extent to which one might enjoy oneself can reach a level of lethality unparalleled on the festival circuit. Oh, and congratulations. Filmmakers of a certain disposition are advised to write a last will and testament prior [...]

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Adapting Lethem’s Biosphere

August 13, 2009

Pleased to announce that I’ll be adapting Jonathan Lethem’s story If Their Was the Biosphere for the wee screen (meaning this one) as part of the author’s experiment in open-source collaboration, the Promiscuous Materials Project. Lethem is perhaps best known for his novels Motherless Brooklyn (a National Book Critics Circle Award-winner) and The Fortress of [...]

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Feel Like a Tramp

February 27, 2009

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] If you feel like a little tramp, consider Charlie Chaplin’s A Dog’s Life, screening as part of a silent triptych of moving pictures presented by the Sonoma Film Institute. As the top dog of the silent era, Chaplin’s depiction of a dog-day afternoon spent with a rescued mutt [...]

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Matinee Idyll: Indie Screening in Wine Country

January 9, 2009

Once upon a time, at some party or other in Hollywood, the host proudly showed off his expansive DVD collection, after claiming to have dumped his books to make space. “DVDs are the new novels,” he crowed proudly, unaware that he had offended not only this particular writer, but nearly everyone within earshot who had [...]