True Detective

Have to say this is the best show on TV at the moment.  If you haven't seen it, run, don't walk to your viewing station.  

Subscribe to the HBO YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10qIqsj The new HBO series, True Detective, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson premieres January 12, 2014.

Empire Marketing Board

Reminiscing about teaching documentary film conjured up the Empire Marketing Board.   I used to show their first film Drifters by the head of the EMB, John Grierson.  It's a silent movie and the students didn't dig.  Maybe next time, I'll show this re-imagining with a live soundtrack interpretation. 

John Grierson's "Drifters"- an improvised live soundtrack by Paolo Spaccamonti & Ben Chasny "Crossroads" - Cinema Massimo - Torino, Italy, May 11, 2013 Ben Chasny: guitar, vox - Paolo Spaccamonti: guitar, fx http://www.paolospaccamonti.com/ http://www.sixorgans.com/ http://www.museocinema.it/ Drifters (1929) is silent documentary film by John Grierson, his first and only personal film.

Apricot Lane Farms on OWN

Check out our good friends up at Apricot Lane Farms, now screening on OWN 

From Film to Farm: Meet the Keepers of Apricot Lane Farms

Filmmaker John Chester is stepping out from behind the camera and getting his hands dirty on the lands of his new home, Apricot Lane Farms. In 2011, he and his wife, Molly, started this organic and biodynamic farm in Southern California. Find out why he says the experience has forced him to become very comfortable with embracing failure and how it has taught him true patience.