Guus Bosman

Today was the first day of the Full Frame documentary festival in Durham and I saw my first movie in the late afternoon. I'll write about it in a separate article but it was a great start.

I've done something quite unusual: I took a day off. I had such a good time last year at the festival that I'll spend a good chunk of tomorrow watching documentaries. In the afternoon I have to go to Raleigh to pick up my packet for Saturday's. So far it looks like it going to rain on Saturday morning. Rain is fine, as long as the race doesn't get cancelled.

I must say that I'm disappointed with the selection for opening movie of Full Frame this year, and we decided not to go see it. The movie is called Trumbo; various people are reading from the correspondence of Mr. Trumbo, a writer who in the 1940's got blacklisted as a suspected Communist. I'm sure it is a good documentary but it seems overly self-focussed for a documentary festival to start with a movie about a screenwriter. I suppose I'm just disappointed that it's not as brilliant as a choice as Castells was last year