Film Festival Day 1 September 1

We were very happy to be able to start seeing movies this morning. First up: a very long Wormwood  about a real man, Eric Olson, who searches for decades to learn about the death of his father who died in the 50s while a government scientist.  You might remember the events. It will be on Netflix as a miniseries but the whole thing was shown here. . . Like Binge watching.

 It's an Absolute must see!

Next The Cotton Club--a 1984 Coppola film that he restored and re edited. Coppola introduced it to us. Also present were Gregory Hines' brother & son.G  Hines starred  & choreographed. The 

Cast of familiar faces was extensive. Fun. 

Then we saw Lady Bird which we all loved starring Saoirse Ronan as a teen growing up in Sacramento. Had the feel of Juno. See it!

Finally was Downsizing with an incredible cast ( see yesterday's post) and director, Alexander Payne.  However three of us decided to skip it & get some sleep.  Reports the next day were not very positive, so we didn't regret the decision.

Off to a wonderful start!