September 03, 2008
Stone Barns Farm

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Farm
This center for food and agriculture in the Hudson Valley supports the so-called "locavore" movement of eating locally grown food. What a great day we had touring the grounds, buying from the market, and eating on picnic tables at the café.

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August 31, 2008
Summer jumps the shark

I love the enduring absurdity of the term, "jumping the shark," and here's the "Happy Days" video clip that started it all.

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August 29, 2008
Movie Pick: Sukiyaki Western Django

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Kiyomori Taira (Koichi Sato) and the red clad gang
Wow, what a visual treat! And don't miss the (sexy) pistol-packing grandma in Takashi Miike's genre-bending western, in (often hilarious) Japanese-accented English.

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August 22, 2008
Opening night for "Trouble the Water" at IFC Center

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Stealing the evening was baby Skyy, born to Scott and Kimberly Rivers Roberts last January during Sundance, where the film premiered
It was heartening to see a multi-racial audience, children up through seniors, at a movie theater watching a documentary film. How often does that happen?

In addition to the IFC Center, the film opened at imagenation in Harlem.

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Movie Pick: Trouble the Water

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Kimberly Rivers Roberts and Scott Roberts survived Hurricane Katrina

With the tenacity of a journalist, and the soul of a poet, Kimberly Rivers Roberts reported the truth behind the Katrina disaster, in Carl Deal and Tia Lessin's galvanizing film. Shockingly uplifting while recounting the horrors by nature and government, the film conjures a thirst for the power of community and the grace of God.

In the film's theatrical release, this force can be experienced in the communal spirit of a movie house.

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August 14, 2008
Movie Pick: A Girl Cut in Two

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Paul Gaudens (Benoit Magimel) and Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier) tangled in a complicated passion

Who is the blonde starlet to watch, with a movie opening this week? No, not ScarJo in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," but French actress Ludivine Sagnier in Claude Chabrol's "A Girl Cut in Two." Playing up-and-coming television personality Gabrielle Deneige, the magnetic actress tangles with two dangerous men--an older, married author and a younger, wealthy ruffian.

The 29-year-old has accumulated an impressive list of credits with top directors, including a breakout role in Ozon's "Swimming Pool," where she was the sexy counterpoint to Charlotte Rampling's prim Englishwoman, unexpectedly sharing a summer house.

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