The rough timeline editing is basically done now for the second half of Friday, showing the guys back in Seattle talking to friends about what happened. Now there's only one chapter left, the final show at the Happy Palace.

Just finished capturing clips from hour 15, and added a new progress bar on the right to show this status.

Just finished the transition from Missoula back to Seattle, taking a total of 42 seconds screen time.

Work resumes on the movie today. It's been a long break since the last update, but in the meantime I've seen some great documentaries which should be on all of your watch lists:

The Corporation: A history of the concept of the "corporation". Now that it has legal status as a "person", they show that a corporation meets all the criteria for antisocial personality disorder.

Nobody Knows How to Talk to Children: A backstage look at a White Stripes concert in 2002, this was one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. I was very surprised that it had been released, because it looked like crap, sounded like crap, and was edited worse than my grandma's first home movie. Today I found an interesting disclaimer on the White Stripes website where they say the filmmaker released it even though they didn't approve, and after he'd signed a contract stating that the band owned all the footage. This confirms my opinion of the guy, who was there at the showing of the movie. Although he didn't have the guts to wait around for the end for questions, before the movie started he thanked SIFF for "having the balls" to show the film. My intuition warned me that it was going to suck right then and there, and it was correct.

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus: A spooky tour of the south, hosted by musician Jim White. Some amazing music, fantastic photography, bizaare locations. They paint a picture of the south as a haunting, freakish, gloomy, disturbing, hypnotic landscape. At first I was put off by the obviously set-up moments, like when they show The Handsome Family playing tunes at a country crossroads. But by the end of the movie I had settled into the groove of the movie and didn't care anymore that it wasn't pure cinima verite.

Fahrenheit 9/11: Great movie, everything's been said about this already. Go see it.

The Five Obstructions: Fantastic movie where Jorgen Leth is pushed to remake his 1967 short film "The Perfect Human" five times, each with increasingly challenging restrictions on what he cannot do.