FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF

10 MOST RECENT FILMS WATCHED: Indie Memphis, NewFilmmakers L.A., a benefit, the theater, VOD, and DVD – movies coming from all over the place from Films Gone Wild

This one includes the last couple of films I caught at Indie Memphis, the L.A. Premiere of QUALITY PROBLEMS at New Filmmakers L.A., a benefit screening of FERRIS BUELLER to benefit my friend, and Dallas’s legendary personality Devin Pike, some eclectic choices on VOD and DVD, the first holiday movie, and the irony of watching Chris Nolan’s totally shot in film DUNKIRK on a plane as I headed home from Los Angeles.

aGLIFF 2017 REVIEWS: Clyde Peterson's TORREY PINES is a unique pastiche of lost youth and endless curiosity that you and your inner child need to see

And there is craftiness. Petersen is telling us something we all know, but don’t want to admit to ourselves: our pleasant memories are easily deconstructed into impactful trauma, and not even the warm fuzzies of crayons and construction paper can hide the truth from a person honest with themselves.