I spent all of last week with my classmates and a few staff from school in the Poconos, hunting and outlet shopping. Actually, we were visiting a film archive and a film lab, both somewhat mysteriously located in the Poconos, so we didn’t have much time to engage in the typical modern-day Poconos leisure activities. […]

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Last week, I returned from a six-day trip to Los Angeles, my first, to visit some film archives and labs and to see the sights. I had a great time, visited some amazing places, and enjoyed getting to know L.A. a little. Requisite celebrity sightings: Eric Idle and Queen Latifah (not together). I visited the […]

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We used a reading by David Sedaris as an excuse for an afternoon trip to Syracuse to look around. We enjoyed a walk around the campus, dinner at Alto Cinco (a favorite from Cinefest), and a fun evening at the Landmark Theater. What an ornate, amazing place, in such a desolate downtown. We ate at […]

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Yesterday we enjoyed two screenings with Kris Kristofferson at the Dryden, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid at 2pm and Cisco Pike at 8. It was a long, busy afternoon into evening, but it was a lot of fun; he’s a charming, funny, interesting guy, and he’s had a fascinating film career. They’d put together […]

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