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Pop & Me 27 Aug 00

I saw this at a festival over a year ago and I noticed it got a small theatrical run recently; hopefully you can catch this remarkable documentary on video. The concept is both simple and borderline egotistical: a father and son reprise a family trip around the world, taking a video camera to make a film about fathers and sons. I think even they were startled at the honesty and depth they caught, both around the world and from themselves. Worth searching for. A



I can remember a time when where we went to the movies was just as important as the movies we went to see .... From the moment moviegoers arrived to buy their tickets, there was a sense of something special, a feeling that to step inside was to enter another time and place. - Gene Kelly