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Ebertfest: Day Four

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Enjoy Mat Dillon as eye candy until I can blog about Day Four later today. Just got back from a lovely Ebertfest party and its so late and I gotta pack and sleep and prepare for tomorrow's screening. Last Day... boo hoo! but a brief recap - I saw: …

Ebertfest: Day 3 Part Two

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Frozen River. That says it all for me. This was a lovely, lovely film! More tears. I am starting to lose my mind over how fantastic these movies are! Once again we were treated to the presence of the writer/director (Courtney Hunt - first time filmmaker), one of the stars (Misty Upham) and Michael Barker, co-president of Sony Pictures Classic, that bought the film. …

Ebertfest: Day 3, part one

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Oy!! This festival is starting to exhaust me! That was my thought this morning when I rolled outta bed at 9:30A.M. to get some books autographed by Roger and to attend a forum about film. That exhaustion turned into exhilaration by the time I reached the theater. I just saw Begging Naked, a documentary by Karen Gehres. This film was extraordinary. It ripped my heart out and enlightened me at the same time. …

Ebertfest Day 2: Trouble the Water

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Well, it did it to me again... I saw Trouble the Water and it made cry - again. The film makers (Carl Deal, Tia Lessin) and subjects (Kim & Scott Roberts) were on hand to introduce the film and afterwards for a Q & A (Richard Roeper was the mediator.) I had to raise my hand to comment. Back in October I had emailed my review to the Trouble the Water's Myspace profile and Director Carl Deal wrote me back. And so when I made my comment I mentioned that I had sent an email to Myspace, …

Ebertfest Day 2

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I am back at the hotel for a quick break between screenings. I just saw : My Winnipeg., a wonderfully cheeky & unique film film directed by Guy Maddin, who I met, and Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop - Fabulous! I just saw Bahrani's film Goodbye Solo a few weeks ago. But tonight we are screening Trouble the Water. I fell in love with this great film when I saw it last year. The directors will be there as well as the subjects of the doc: Kim & Scott Roberts. Kim will be rapping after the …