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Kate Siegel's husband, and filmmaker. Founder of Red Room Pictures.

Los Angeles, CA
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Favorite films

  • All That Jazz
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Ikiru

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  • Final Destination Bloodlines

  • Black Bag

  • Talk Radio

  • The Vietnam War

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Talk Radio

1988

Liked 10

Fierce, hypnotic, and one of my favorites from the eighties. Eric Bogosian is incredible, both on camera and on the page, as he adapts his stage play through the lens of a remarkably restrained Oliver Stone. It's riveting throughout, as Bogosian's razor-sharp performance takes us on a journey of loneliness and disillusionment, staring into the abyss of "entertainment" and "audience" and finding that it has no bottom. Prescient and provocative, this is a movie I frequently find myself recommending. It doesn't get the flowers it deserves.

The Vietnam War

2017

Liked 20

This 10-part, 18-hour series is, in my opinion, the greatest documentary ever made.

I make a point to try to watch this once a year, an hour or so at a time, broken up over many weeks. It is immersive and thorough, benefitting fully from the hindsight of history as it painstakingly chronicles one of the most tragic follies in American foreign policy.

From the ignored foreshadowing of 's attempted occupation in the century prior, to the dawning realization of…

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Madame Web

2024

Liked 225

We come to this place… for magic.
We come to the theater to laugh, to cry, to care.
Because we need that, all of us:
that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim,
and we go somewhere we've never been before;
not just entertained, but somehow reborn.... together.
Dazzling images, on a huge silver screen.
Sound that I can feel.
Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this.
Our heroes feel like the best part of us,
and stories feel perfect and powerful.

Because here...

They are.

The Holdovers

2023

Liked 30

Lovely slice of life story from Alexander Payne. Simple, humble, and elegant reminder that everyone we encounter is fighting their own battles, and that we rarely know what they are. I found this to be a gentle ode to comion, very well acted, and written and directed with quiet wisdom. Highly recommended.

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