Light’ning in a bottle
Doug Block discusses changes in filmmaking on Film Courage radio show.
The Kids Grow Up now available on DVD and on iTunes
You can buy the DVD here, or get it from iTunes here. And you can get it from Cinema Now, where it was recently pick of the week. The DVD release has 45 minutes of bonus material on it, including outtakes and a video essay by director Doug Block on making personal documentaries. Below is [...]
Moms vs Dads at HBO
At an advance screening of the HBO Father’s Day broadcast premiere of The Kids Grow Up (airing this Sunday), bloggers Catherine Connors, Doug French and NFI head Roland Warren discuss pros and cons of the changing roles of parents with our Doug Block. Read what other bloggers are saying. And check out HBO’s website for additional broadcasts.
Dads
Even though we’re spending a lot of time thinking about mothers here in the Hard Working Movies office, that doesn’t mean we forget about our paternal roots. Father’s Day is just around the corner, and with that, the broadcast premiere of The Kids Grow Up on HBO. In building up to the broadcast, we’ve been [...]
Kids vs Buzz Lightyear
We’re opening The Kids Grow Up tonight in Washington DC at the Avalon. Ann Hornaday writes in the Washington Post: Between “The Kids Are All Right” and “Toy Story 3,” audiences were gifted with particularly sensitive portrayals of one of the most bittersweet passages in family life, when the first child prepares to leave for college. [...]
How real is it?
In yesterday’s New York Times Magazine, A.O. Scott writes on reality in documentaries with a nod to The Kids: ”To take examples only from this calendar year, a single generic rubric covers a muckraking, talking-head essay on Wall Street like Charles Ferguson’s “Inside Job,” a ruminative memoir on parenthood like “The Kids Grow Up,” by Doug Block, and [...]
TKGU back from L.A.
Had an excellent week in L.A. for the opening of The Kids Grow Up. Doug and Lucy held their own with the big guns on The Talk. One of our favorite filmmakers, Michel Gondry, took out time from his own film and book tour to host a great Q&A on opening night. We had help during [...]
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