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Mar 9, 2022Liked by Scott Tobias

Scott, as another frequenter of True/False for the past six years (minus last year), I've always appreciated your enthusiastic coverage. I'd hoped to spot you on the streets of Columbia and let you know in person - we've unknowingly shared many a screening, usually at the larger venues, including the astounding Dick Johnson is Dead showing in 2020 - but it was this year when I finally realized my facial recognition skills are inadequate to making this happen with or without masks, since the timing of your tweets indicates we were among the same handful of people in the small Ragtag Theater for GES-2. I don't know if you were among the people singing along with the karaoke portion of the movie (an innovation Wiseman definitely wouldn't have included!), but either way I'm happy to have shared the moment and to see this appreciation of the movie's timely thoughts on unity in artistic spaces. That film plus the ecstatic audience response to Let the Little Light Shine really highlighted what the theatrical experience can bring that can never be replaced no matter how deep the streaming catalogs get.

For anybody who can possibly make it to Missouri in early March, this is the most welcoming, innovative, and well-organized festival you could hope for. Every year it challenges and excites my perception of movies and the world at large. Hope to see you there.

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I still need to catch up with Ramin Bahrani's last movie, the Netflix one, do you know if this new one is headed for that platform as well?

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