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Q&A immediately following with writer/director/producer Christopher Munch, and actors Campbell Scott and Leith Burke. When his 85-year-old father dies of a heart attack, Jeremy Rudd (Campbell Scott) is summoned to the exclusive California golf resort where he lived. Estranged from him for two decades, Jeremy is forced to confront his father’s secretive legacy and as an investigative journalist, uncovers the truth behind President Eisenhower’s long-suspected involvement in extraterrestrial events. This imaginative work of fact-and-fiction is by Award-winning independent filmmaker Christopher Munch. Munch shared, “One of my earliest inspirations for The 11th Green was a dream of an unmade Robert Altman film, a dark comedy set in the Nevada desert involving a group of extremely unhappy workers in the classified aerospace world who could talk to no one, not even their families, about what they did for a living. Ultimately, I settled on a reporter as a framing device fo ....
Cinema Chat: 12/24/20 2020 IN REVIEW: NEW YORK WRITERS (EDITED & ADDED TO BY RUSS REFLECT ON THE YEAR S HIGHS AND LOWS Since March, the year in cinema has been defined by a near-total absence of significant theatrical releases first, because theatres across the country were shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic and, subsequently, because even after they reopened people largely stayed away. The new 007 film and the new Wes Anderson film, among dozens of others, were bumped to next year’s schedule; “Soul” [“Hamilton”] and “Wonder Woman 1984” are being released on streaming sites rather than in theatres; the Cannes Film Festival was cancelled, and many others, such as the New York Film Festival, were held online. In spite of this, 2020 has been, against the odds, a wonderful year for new movies. … [However,] even the best new independent films were being met with a muted response, stemming in part from … a collective sense of numbness … and ....
Oh, what a sad story this is, about a woman who never accepted anything good in her life because she was hoping for something better. Now she is dying, and in her quiet and civilized way is trying to double back and see what can be retrieved. We think we ll have enough time to tidy up the loose ends, and then death slams down. Sleepy Time Gal stars Jacqueline Bisset as Frances, a woman who in some ways has led an admirable life. She made her own way. Very early, she was the late-night disk jockey on a Florida radio station, and her later jobs reflected various causes or passing fancies. She was married twice, had a son by each marriage and she also, we learn, had a daughter by a third man and gave her up for adoption. She has not been an attentive mother. One of the sons faithfully attends her bedside, but he observes, She doesn t really know very much about me perhaps not even that he is gay. The other son phones in from London but will not supply a return number. She wis ....