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  • NOWHERE BOY

    At 8 30 am on a bitterly cold January morning in Park City, Utah I sat clutching my Starbucks watching a wonderful period piece movie when the teacher on screen bawled out a name and then I suddenly remembered why we had decided to make this film part of our Sundance schedule.  It was Nowhere…

  • THE LIFE OF REILLY

    The late great Charles Nelson Reilly had a tough start to life: a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a loud-mouth racist mother and he was the only gay kid on the block in the Bronx back in the 1940’s.  Who would have guessed then that he would have ended up as Tony Winning Actor, acclaimed…

  • LETTERS TO JULIET

    Sophie, a young gauche American woman is in Verona for a pre-honeymoon trip (?) and is abandoned by her fiancé, a budding chef who prefers hanging out in kitchens and wine cellars than doing the usual tourist sites.  She comes across a wall where desperate women attach letters to Juliet (Shakespeare’s one) bitching about how…

  • INSIDE JOB

    I think this is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through well-documented research…