The Art of Theft (2010)

Actors

• William Bonwick (actor)
• Julia Faragher (actor)
• William Faragher (actor)
• Lachlan Piper (actor)
• Jeremy Bonwick (producer)
• Julia Faragher (producer)
• Lachlan Piper (producer)
• Jeremy Bonwick (writer)
• Jeremy Bonwick (writer)
• William Bonwick (writer)
• Julia Faragher (writer)
• Jeremy Bonwick (costume designer)
• William Bonwick (costume designer)
• Julia Faragher (costume designer)
• William Faragher (costume designer)

Genres

• Crime
• Mystery
• Short

A River Runs Through It (1992)

Actors

• Philip A. Braun (actor)
• Rob Cox (actor)
• David Creamer (actor)
• Michael Cudlitz (actor)
• Byron Dingman (actor)
• MacIntyre Dixon (actor)
• Jim Dunkin (actor)
• Daren Eastwold (actor)
• Hawk Forssell (actor)
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt (actor)
• D. Gorton (actor)
• Vann Gravage (actor)
• William Hootkins (actor)
• Don Jeffery (actor)
• Chuck Adamson (actor)

Genres

• Drama

Taglines:

The Story of an American Family.

Quotes:

Older Norman: [narrating] My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.

Paul: Oh, I'll never leave Montana, brother.

Older Norman: [narrating] In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

Norman: Truth is, I'm not sure I want to leave.::Jesse: Montana? Why? It'll always be here.::Norman: Not Montana.::Jesse: Then what? WHAT?::Norman: I'm not sure I want to leave you.

Norman: Dear Jesse, as the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots, before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming softly; not to the music, but something else; some place else; a place remembered; a field of grass where no one seemed to have been; except a deer; and the memory is strengthened by the feeling of you, dancing in my awkward arms.

[last lines]::Older Norman: [narrating] Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

Older Norman: [narrating] It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Rev. Maclean: Each one of here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

Jesse: Why is it the people who need the most help... won't take it?

Rev. Maclean: [walking away from the river] The Lord has blessed us all today... It's just that he has been particularly good to me.

Famous quotes by Ken Burns:

"The Civil War."

"Oh, I'm just sitting here dying about it,"

"OK, I'm going with Altman,"

"This is what I don't understand, why we're not taught this. I mean, you would be hard pressed to say that there was no machine more important than the car in the last 100 years. Nothing has been more influential in how we live, how we work, what's worked itself into our songs, into our mythology. The idea of a road trip is very much in everyone's life, and this is the first road trip."

"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"

"impossible to imagine what we would have been like without it."

"[Sometimes, for example, we assume the people hearing us don't know anything. I've read a commentator saying that the new] Jazz ... OK, we got that part, move on."

"Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics."

"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being."

"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."

"The flame is not out, but it is flickering."

"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."

"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films."

"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts."

"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches."

"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."

"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."

"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style."

"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."