The Interrupters - 2011 - independent documentary

The Interrupters - 2011
This four plus minute clip completely captured my attention.


The Interrupters - 2011 - Directed by Steve James (director of Hoop Dreams)
It looks like a compelling documentary on the still rough streets of America. There's a lot of information at the films website:
www.interrupters.kartemquin.com
From the site:
"The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed."

"The film’s main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. The singular mission of the “Violence Interrupters” — who have credibility on the streets because of their own personal histories — is to intervene in conflicts before they explode into violence."

"Kartemquin Films intends to develop a national outreach campaign that builds on the exposure from the film’s appearance at Sundance and will continue through the 2011 television broadcast and beyond. The Interrupters Community Engagement Campaign will use the documentary as the centerpiece of a two-year effort to engage audiences and communities in reflection, discussion and action around the structural causes of street violence, and creative approaches for interrupting the cycle of retaliatory violence."

Lars von Trier ends the world

Lars von Trier, one of our most forward thinking cinema artists has a new film coming soon.
Melancholia


"A beautiful movie about the end of the world" - Lar von Trier
That sounds very dangerous to me, he has something up his sleeve. I expect to be devastated and inspired with each frame.
On top of it all it again stars Charlotte Gainsbourg also with Kristen Dunst, Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgard, Alexander Skarsgard, Kierfer Sutherland

I'm (We're) Almost Not Crazy

I'm Almost Not Crazy - John Cassavetes - The Man and His Work (1984)

I found this incredible documentary on John Cassavettes. It was made during the filming of Love Streams. A film I would consider a pure masterpiece.
(it's in multiple parts, I'll only direct you to part one)

... it should be named "We're Almost Not Crazy" it's as much about Gena Rowlands as it is about John Cassavetes.

Part 1


Notes: I'm confident I would have beat his ass at backgammon, he put too much emotion into each roll...roll not role
Gena Gena Gena... what a great artist Gena Rowlands' is.

Interesting note on Part 2, this segment dealt more with Gena Rowlands' preparation for a key scene in Love Streams. It's the scene in which she tries to make her husband and daughter laugh. Interestingly, she states this was the only completely improvised scene in the film. Mainly, because Cassavettes knew that had he told her what it would entail it would have had her up all night.