Since you've already read Scott Macauley's fascinating interview with
The Windmill Movie's Alex Olch in the Spring issue, you will definitely not want to miss the hilarious, genuine and provocative documentary-within-a-documentary premiering at
Film Forum on Wednesday. Special Q & A's with Olch, Bob Balaban, Wallace Shawn & Susan Meiselas will follow several of the screenings. It's worth it simply for the knock-out technicolor shots of high-society bottoms on the 1980's Montauk beach, let alone the Big Ideas and Small Moments that comprise Olch's quest to honor his teacher's memory.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center, in anticipation of the film's release, is also showing a retrospective on Rogers' life this week:
REMEMBERING DICK ROGERS – A rare look at three documentary masterworks. The films are each under 30 minutes and illustrate the work of a true "filmmaker's filmmaker," a man to-the-manner-born whose fraught relationship with his own success didn't stop him from finishing these gems, luckily:
Elephants: Fragments of an Argument (1973),
Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica (1975), an
226-1690 (1984).
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posted by Alicia Van Couvering @ 6/15/2009 06:17:00 PM
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