Oh Greta, you get me. I don't have the same intimate love of film my husband has. Usually they serve as the background noise in my overly responsible feeling day-to-day life- a TV on in the back ground. So when I asked Pete to watch the kids so I could see the new Little Women he was perhaps overly enthusiastic to kick me out of the house. Leaving my new nursling and toddler in his good hands I set off with the intent to have some wine, sit beside a friend, and catch my fi

This Christmas my wife gifted me the 100 Years of Olympic Films box set from Criterion Collection. I’ve been pulling out documentaries from it pretty much at random and recently I landed on Visions of Eight, the somewhat experimental documentary about the 1972 Munich summer games with segments directed by Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, Man on the Moon, and more), Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde), Claude Lelouch, John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Marath