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So much closer to me...

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tini4- now you're making me curious. just how close? :D

http://deadcenter.festivalgenius.com/2012/films/sidebyside_chriskenneally_deadcenter2012

For those near Oklahoma City

http://youtu.be/-o5IOKlF8JA

Side By Side interview with Slaza and Keanelly starts at 23:00 but the whole thing is kinda interesting.

And watching the documentary at a film festival was a special experience per se. It was shown in a small old-fashioned theater, with creaking seats and wood floors and velvet curtains and no air conditioning; an old theater where once I used to go watch old cinematheque movies in black-and-white. There was a bitter-sweet irony about it. The audience was formed mainly by film festival guests and film students; people with technical background in movie making, and a few stray cats like myself, who just wanted to watch the documentary we read so much about. And it was a joy to see them react to the technical jokes; to hear a few of them hoot when on the screen someone was talking about the operator and the DP losing their god-like status on the set, or to hear them snicker when Cameron rhetorically asks Reeves 'you've been on a few sets in your life, haven't you?'

... And I've got a confession to make. Remember that reviewer who wrote that he found Reeves' sporting twenty-something haircuts during the film distracting? Well... it might have been because I've seen the blessed haircuts before, in stills and other photos, but... after the first twenty minutes, I didn't even notice it was Keanu Reeves interviewing all those people. I was so caught in the whole experience of having that whole world explained to me that it didn't matter. Yes, the corner of my eye did capture the images of someone asking questions with his hands ;) but the images were filed for later analysis. The fangirl was dismissed; I was a student watching and listening a captivating lecture. you know those 'Keanu Reeves film school' jokes the fish like to throw around? well, at the end of the day, the joke's on them.

It's a film about nostalgia and inevitability, with a very light note of sadness.

... and they'd better release it on DVD !!! :D

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I was a student watching and listening a captivating lecture

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the sentence makes me full of envy for you. I want to watch the documentary too.

I hope they'd release it on DVD. ( or they'd show it at taormina film festival just for me ;)!!!!!)

you know... it's funny and eerie but there is a certain kind of atmosphere around a film festival. After watching Side by Side, in the same day but late in the evening I attended an open air projection of a film ( a Danish smart little comedy). The location was a plaza in the historical center of the city; imagine a square place surrounded by 250 years old buildings and a 700 years old cathedral 'occupied' by about 400 plastic chairs and a huge movie screen. The film projector was mounted in the back of a truck and when leaving the plaza we had to pass by it. And I heard myself thinking out loud: 'hey, look, it's still on celluloid!' Quite a few people around me chuckled, and I realized we had seen the same film earlier that day :) It felt like being around kindred spirits.
... or maybe just the festival fever ;) :D

maybe the festival fever woke up the kindred spirits.:D

oh there's someone still use celluloid for movies...I could already know what James Cameron or Georges Lucas think of them XD XD XD

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without the (almost always compulsory) elitism and snobbery ;) :D

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How someone so very elite, with every opportunity to be a snob, manages it is beyond the norm to say the least.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Very well said.
I believe Kenneally says something about the august release of a dvd and maybe some limited theatrical release on the vid?

http://youtu.be/-o5IOKlF8JA

ARYA - didn't watch that video yet; I'm still playing bits of the documentary in my head and don't want anything to interfere with that just yet :D
But if he said that, I'm happy :)

and for some Europeans:
http://www.filmfest-muenchen.de/de/filmprogramm/film-abc.aspx?filmId=3646