The Film Panel Notetaker

Salesman
Q&A with director Albert Maysles
Stranger Than Fiction at IFC Center
New York, NY
May 22, 2012
Notes by Brian Geldin
I have been very lucky to see Albert Maysles speak at several discussions after viewing his collaborative work with his late brother David, and Tuesday night, I was captivated again upon my first screening of the Maysles Bros. classic, [...]

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The Tillman Story
Q&A with Director Amir Bar-Lev
Stranger Than Fiction
December 20, 2010
IFC Center
New York, NY
The Film Panel Notetaker is no stranger to Stranger Than Fiction, but for the first time we co-presented an evening at the invitation of STF founder Thom Powers on the occasion of our 5th anniversary, and what a powerful film [...]

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One-on-One Q&A with Amir Bar-Lev – Director, The Tillman Story

The Film Panel Notetaker will co-present Amir Bar-Lev’s The Tillman Story at Stranger Than Fiction at IFC Center on Monday, Dec. 20 at 8:00 P.M. The Tillman Story will be available on DVD beginning February 1 (Pre-Order here), but if you can’t wait, or already saw the [...]

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To commemorate its 5th Anniversary, The Film Panel Notetaker will co-present Amir Bar-Lev’s, The Tillman Story at Stranger Than Fiction at IFC Center on Monday, Dec. 20 at 8:00 P.M. A Q&A with Bar-Lev will follow the screening. To read more about the screening and to purchase tickets, visit http://stfdocs.com/films/the_tillman_story/.

About The Tillman Story:
When Pat Tillman [...]

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CRUDE Screening & Benefit for Joe Berlinger’s Legal Defense Fund
Stranger Than Fiction
June 22, 2010
New York, NY
By Brian Geldin

L to R: Thom Powers, Joe Berlinger, Maura Wogan, Morgan Spurlock and Michael Winship. Not pictured: Ilan Maazel. Photo by Brian Geldin.
As reported in the press recently, Chevron served a subpoena on Joe Berlinger’s documentary CRUDE in [...]

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“Off and Running”
Opening Weekend Theatrical Release
Q&A after 4:05pm screening with Director Nicole Opper and others
January 30, 2010 (Notes by Brian Geldin)
IFC Center
New York, NY

(L to R: Rita Taddonio, Nicole Opper & Sharese Bullock. Photo by Brian Geldin.)
It has been over a year since Nicole Opper’s documentary “Off and Running” was brought to my attention. I [...]

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“Running Fence”
Stranger Than Fiction
January 19, 2010
IFC Center
New York, NY

Stranger Than Fiction’s Thom Powers and “Running Fence” co-director Albert Maysles. Photo by Brian Geldin.

Fresh off last week’s Cinema Eye Honors, Thom Powers presented this week at Stranger Than Fiction David and Albert Maysles’ and Charlotte Zwerin’s 1978 documentary “Running Fence.” Albert Maysles, who was [...]

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“Snowblind”
Stranger Than Fiction
January 12, 2010
IFC Center
New York, NY

Stranger Than Fiction’s Thom Powers and “Snowblind” Director Vikram Jayanti. Photo by Brian Geldin.

 Tuesday saw the official opening of the new season of Stranger Than Fiction with an appropriately snowy-titled screening of Vikram Jayanti’s (“Game Over – Kasparov and the Machine”) “Snowblind,” which Thom Powers noted during the post-screening Q&A [...]

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Stranger Than FictionUpstream BattleQ&A with director Ben KempasIFC CenterNew York, NYJanuary 13, 2008

(Upstream Battle director Ben Kampas and STF’s Thom Powers)
Tuesday night was the first screening of 2009 and new season of Stranger Than Fiction at the IFC Center. It’s been since last spring that I last reported from STF. Upstream Battle is story of [...]

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Q&A after screening of Barbara Kopple’s My Generation at IFC Center.
This week I saw some really incredible nonfiction films at IFC Center. Monday night was a travelling festival of short documentary films called doxita, and last night was Barbara Kopple’s 2000 feature documentary My Generation, about all of the Woodstock music festivals (1969, ‘94 & [...]

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