Cinema of the Forgotten

Hello to the 15,000, You haven’t heard from me much in the last months. But silence on the page does not mean silence in the field. It has been an amazingly productive year. But first things first. At long last! We are ready to open the 9 @ night film series in ...

Berkeley is Free

My friend Bobby Roth is showing his feature film BERKELEY, featuring his son, Nick Roth, Henry Winkler, Bonnie Bedelia, Laura Jordan and others at the University of California this Friday night. It's at 7:00 PM at ...

Letters to Ray - Energy

Below are a series of correspondences between Ray Carney and Rob Nilsson. The first letter is about the writer strike, and it involves Rob's friend Bobby. The second letter Rob speaks of ENERGY and touches on a project in the works about de Kooning. Hello Ray, Your whole Modest Proposal makes ...

Northern Lights Screening and a Letter from Denny Dey

NORTHERN LIGHTS is going to play in Los Angeles this coming Friday, Jan. 18, 8:00 PM at the Silent Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax near Melrose. This is late notice but I've been laid up with a cough for the last month and things have ground down a little. I plan ...
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I've always liked the slogan, "Opinion rules the world." The 15,000 is a chronicle of opinions I'd like to have more heft in the neighborhood. I've lived long enough to realize that silence has great value. I think it's the great growing space pregnant in the seed before it blooms. And then you talk.

Every month I'll be writing on a topic related to our films: production, distribution, exhibition. Or I'll follow inspiration, desperation and other burrs under the saddle to talk about cinema, art, society ... the gamut.

I'm hoping to hear your views. I only know my own and so I'm at a disadvantage. You are 15,000 and I am one. The only way we can make progress is if you are as candid as I try to be. If you make an honest effort to cut through the mist and tell the truths... read more

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