Hey gang! Chris here. As always, I’m writing from Doc Channel HQ in the heart of lovely downtown Nashville. Thought I would take a few moments to gush over a couple of docs I’ve had the opportunity to see here in the last little bit that captured my imagination and made my inner film nerd all giddy like.
It’s always a good feeling to see our favorite medium is still not only finding a home in the hearts and minds of even the most jaded film fans, it’s a rolling stone practically covered up with mossy goodness.
“Crazy Love,” the first flick I watched, came courtesy of the good folks at Magnolia. Magnolia has been making all sorts of great choices when it comes to distribution. In addition to releasing last year’s Oscar nominated “Jesus Camp” and giving one of my longtime indie film heroes, Hal Hartley, a home for his latest (the wondrous Fay Grim) and even taking time to please my fellow horror nerds with high quality foreign fare like “The Host” and “Severance.”
Yes, Magnolia has got some very cool things happening, and “Crazy Love” stands as solid proof that the folks over there most definitely know their stuff. We should have a feature piece up about “Crazy Love” here in the coming days, and I’ll drop another blog when the time comes to remind our readers to give it a gander.
Of equal note is the doc “Searching For Orson Welles,” which played the Nashville film fest a few weeks back and may soon find a home at a doc friendly art-house theatre near you. If you’re a fan of Orson’s, you’re going to love this film.
So there you have it. Maybe these recommendations will help you fill a couple of otherwise empty evenings with some high-class entertainment, or maybe this blog will just send you off with a strange compulsion to eat your weight in Zagnut bars. Either way, seems pretty win-win to me.
Hope all is well, and all of you stay tuned. Because this promises to be one hot summer. (And no, I don’t mean because of global warming).