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 ...

Recent Comments

  • Vernon Keel: Mr. Nilsson: Greetings. I am looking for a copy of your first movie, Northern Lights, but am unable to fine on...
  • Julie Marie Angel: My condolence as to the loss of Richard Rekow go out to all. I appreciate this opportunity to be able to...
  • Carl Macki: Watching “Need” and meeting you at the reception last Thursday has lit up some many aspects of my life....
  • david fine: Can’t wait! It’s gonna be Fun!
  • Brette McCabe Jim Bulldis: Rob: Congratulations on 9@Nights debut at the Roxie and other theaters. Everyone is very excited. We...
  • Rob Nilsson: Hi Sunni, Have you received a copy of Used? If not, please send an e-mail and we will have that to you right away.
  • Nonnie: In your interview ” Making Films like a Viking Marauder” with Stephen Teo you say: RN: … In my own...
  • Rob Nilsson: Hi Jim, I’m not sure my reply reached you so I’m trying again. Sometimes I forget how to use the tools...
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The 15,000

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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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