And Everything Is Going Fine

I have seen two more movies today. Mama, a Russian film, about a mother and her morbidly obese son. Each scene was one shot filmed with an unmoving camera, with the characters walking into and out of the scene. Also no dialog. It is an interesting idea, but it did not work.

I also saw And Everything Is Going Fine
, a documentary directed by Steven Soderberg about Spalding Gray. It consists of just footage from Gray's movies, monologues and interviews, cover his life up to about two years before his suicide. No one else appears in the film, except a couple scenes where he is with his father, and some with his children. Gray's widow hosted the film, and answered question after it was over. She said that they started with about 120 hours of film. I mainly went to see the film because it was directed by Soderberg, and he did a great job editing all the original footage down to a coherent film. I think it is to get a theatrical release this fall.