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Lou Nell Gerard
December 14, 2013
Être et avoir, (To Be and to Have), 2002, directed by Nicolas Philibert. French with English subtitles. This award-winning documentary captures a year at a rural one-room school in France with a dozen students ranging in age from 4 to…
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Lou Nell Gerard
November 7, 2013
This wonderful gouache by Franz Marc is only one of the ~1,400 artworks found in a Munich apartment among piles of garbage which has me thinking about a few films related to this story. I have three in particular in…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 29, 2013
Interested in industrial design, husband and wife creative teams, designs with lasting influence? Then check out: Eames: The Architect & the Painter (2011), written by Jason Cohn, directed by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey. This is probably one of the…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 22, 2013
Recently watched “The Return” directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (2003). Superb direction, cinematography and acting working a good story. Mystery that is not solved, suspense & human drama without exclamation marks and expletives. A man, a husband a father returns after…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 18, 2013
We recently saw four documentaries about film. There were common threads intertwining these films on film and I was glad we saw them in close proximity which highlighted their connections. I recommend watching these as a set, but each one…
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