christopher münch
may 2 - 8, 1997
photo: a scene from
COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY
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"...I really had to learn how to make films out of nothing, or just out of ideas. Filmmakers should experience that. It gives you a sense of priorities, makes you resourceful. It kind of dispels the idea that you need money to make films. Or to do anything. You can make films out of thin air. And once you're committed to something, the things that you need fall into place. The gifts are there. They're not always in the shape that you expect them, but they're there nonetheless." -- Other Voices, Other Rooms, Robert Horton's interview with Christopher Münch, Film Comment magazine, July-August 1992
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a scene from THE HOURS AND TIMES 
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COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY (1996; 85 minutes) Set in post-WWII Los Angeles, COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY tells the story of John Lee (Peter Alexander), a Chinese-American who tries to keep train service on the 78-mile Yosemite Valley Railroad route from being discontinued, as a kind of half-humiliated homage to his track-laying immigrant grandfather. As Lee pursues his obsession, he tries to find himself, as well as his proper relation to girlfriend, sister and father. This beautiful black-and-white movie looks like Ansel Adams in stylized motion, and rightly won the Sundance Cinematography award last year. (With Jeri Arredondo as a Native American park ranger, Henry Gibson and R.E. M.'s Michael Stipe.) Friday, May 2: 8 and 9:45 pm Saturday, May 3: 6:15, 8 and 9:45 pm Sunday, May 4: 4, 6, 8 and 9:45 pm Tuesday, May 6: 2 and 4 pm Wednesday, May 7: 4 pm Thursday, May 8: 2 and 9:45 pm
THE HOURS AND TIMES
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