Himself
This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.
Claude Dubois-Millot
Steven Spurrier, un británico expatriado que vive en París y propietario de una tienda de vinos, pone en marcha un plan para demostrar a los parisienses la calidad de los vinos provenientes de otras partes del mundo. Pullman y Rickman dan vida a una historia real en la que dos soñadores consiguen que en 1976 un vino criado en el Valle de Napa triunfe en un concurso en Francia y sitúe para siempre a la localidad de Calistoga en el mapa de los amantes del buen beber.
