http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock Cynthia Rockwell Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:26:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was on the programming committee for Silverdocs this year, which has made the question of blogging a bit confusing for me---how do you review an event that you had a hand in creating? An event which you were able to "attend" in a scattered way while running back and ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/06/23/the-end-of-silverdocs-the-end-of-the-world/ A funny thing happened in the screening of Dust, a German film about the infinitesimal particles that we consider insignificant yet battle daily, in futility, to get rid of. I had high hopes for the film, as it seems there is such poetic possibility in this tiny disregarded ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/06/18/silverdocs-dust/ Leave it to me to get teary-eyed from a film about Iranians installing illegal Satellite TV dishes. But near the end of this film, which takes an often humorous approach to the proliferation of foreign TV programs and internet access in Iran despite the government's tireless efforts to prevent it, ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/06/17/silverdocs-head-wind/ ...and I'll be there. I had the pleasure of previewing some shorts for the festival, the highlight of which is the newest from Jay Rosenblatt, the man who had me bawling my eyes out in the sheep-shearing scene of his Phantom Limb a couple years back at Silverdocs. We also ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/06/07/its-silverdocs-time-again/ I don't know but I didn't think you'd be interested in hearing detailed fangirl analysis of my latest obsession: So I haven't blogged much. But expect a Silverdocs preview coming soon... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/06/02/where-has-the-year-gone/ I'll be heading up to Boston this week for IFFBoston, where they'll be screening the doc about Jay McCarroll, Eleven Minutes. I love Jay McCarroll. I wish I could be his friend. For a teaser here's a snip of an interview with him that had me laughing out loud. They ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/04/21/jay-mccarroll-in-boston/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/02/28/52/ Still standing. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/02/27/42/ Bit of D.C. subway graffiti http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/02/24/32-2/ Silver Spring at night. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/02/23/21-2/ As I am out in the boonies, I will be watching the Oscars at home and attending Greencine's liveblogging of the event, which will include commentary from the lovely Filmbrain and Agnes Varnum, two bloggies I have actually met in person. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/02/22/oscar-night/ from an interview with Fred Wiseman about his new film State Legislature: NYMAG: People say that we’re living in a time of resurgence for documentaries, but it seems to us that most of the documentaries coming out are designed to prove some political point. WISEMAN: Yes, they’re ideological movies. They have a ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/02/22/amen-wiseman/ New year, new picture of the day. I'm waking up. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/02/21/1-again/ "Hillary is the ultimate in venal, ambitious, unscrupulous, Machievellian, power-mad politicos, and that is why the Dowbrigade is supporting her in this ill-fated race. The last two girly-men the Demos put up got their lunch money stolen on the way to school, and the country has been paying dearly ever ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/02/12/political-break/ After seeing There Will Be Blood, and thinking about it a bit, I said that Paul Thomas Anderson was the false prophet Eli Sunday and those raving about his film are Eli's sheep. It's certainly a gorgeous film, an epic one, a mammothly forceful and visceral one, I'll give him ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/02/10/there-will-be-blood-sorry-butno/ Ok one more thing that sticks in my craw about Juno is that one of the adjectives used in nearly every review of the film and/or interview with screenwriter Diablo Cody is that it's so "original," yet, I can spot at least one joke that was stolen nearly word for ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/01/09/juno-addendum/ So I'm really late to the party on this one. My head has been in a hole or something. I was listening to NPR recently and Terri Gross introduced an interview with the director and writer of Juno, a film I had no plans to see based on the painstakingly quirky ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2008/01/01/juno/ Two professors' descriptions of their first encounters with a Michael Haneke film: "It was the first time in my life I have ever been existentially afraid." "Until 3 weeks ago I had never seen a Haneke film. I was asked to be a respondant six months ago, and agreed, but have been ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2007/10/27/at-the-bu-haneke-conference/ excerpt from evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. An army man noting his loss of love for his occupation: ...as I lay in that dark hour, I was aghast to realize that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died, and felt as a husband might feel, who, in the fourth year of ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2007/07/23/good-stuff/ photo by Damien http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ceerock/2007/07/20/47/