My Kid Could Paint That is a documentary about the career of 4-year-old painter Marla Olmstead, who was producing powerful abstract paintings in Binghampton, NY in 2005. The lure of a child painting prodigy was irresistible to the media and the New York art scene, and Marla’s paintings started selling for thousands — and then…
Month: August 2008
A Colt is My Passport (1967)
I had big plans to see several of the films in the Pacific Cinemateque series of 1960s Japanese genre films over the long weekend (happy BC Day!), but laziness and a high neighbourhood Walk Score conspired to keep me around Main Street, which I am still enthusiastically exploring. Today, for instance, I walked up to…