1) What was the best movie you saw this summer?
Chandler: “My favorite movie I saw this summer is a little documentary called ‘Make.’ It was produced by The MusicBed, which is a website that curates and licences music for filmmakers to use in their productions. The film is 75 minutes long and explores the lives and core motivations of roughly half a dozen filmmakers, musicians, and graphic designers as they try to make good art while still somehow paying the bills.”
Dr. Hart: “It would have to be the Woody Allen movie ‘Café Society’ because Woody Allen is one of my favorite directors, and it was nostalgic in a ‘Great Gatsby’ way, in the way it ends. It has an ending like that, a man looking out and thinking about a missed loved. But he also made Hollywood in the 30s look good, and if you know Woody Allen’s movies, he has always been anti-L.A. and anti-Hollywood.”
2) What is on your “must see” list for this fall?
Chandler: “I’m not as knowledgeable as I wish I was about this fall’s releases, but I have had my eye on Terrence Malick’s ‘Voyage of Time’ and Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Manchester by the Sea.’”
Dr. Hart: “Christopher Guest, who has made ‘This is Spinal Tap’ and ‘Waiting for Guffman’ and ‘A Mighty Wind’ and ‘Best in Show,’ is now doing a mockumentary about sports mascots called ‘Mascots.’ I expect that to be pretty darn good.
