Somm Documentary

Chris and I finally got around to watching the documentary Somm this weekend (while drinking a lovely bottle of Barbera del Monferrato), and I recommend it to anyone who likes wine even the teensiest bit. It follows four guys studying and training to pass the Master Sommelier exam. Which is a crazy, intense test!

The doc is awesomely on Netflix now. Here's the trailer:

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Amazing places.

Want to see this documentary: Stories We Tell.

Also, kind of related: the stories that bind us.

Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us.

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A Place at the Table documentary

Our tiny and awesome neighborhood grocery store in.gredients hosted a free screening of the documentary A Place at the Table last night, which was quite moving and illuminating. I had never heard of the idea of food deserts in America, have you? The fact that America has enough food to feed everyone in the states but somehow doesn't (for all the reasons explored in the documentary) is mind-boggling. Ways that you can help can be found here.

Trailer:


A glimpse of the screening:

Vivian Maier

S: I can't wait for this Vivian Maier documentary to come out. You can read more about her here and here.

From the New York Times article:
The still unfolding legend of Vivian Maier has been one of photographic genius discovered only after a lifetime of shooting. Now hailed as a master of street photography, she spent most of her working life in obscurity as a nanny in New York, where she was born, and Chicago, where she died in 2009 at age 83.

Some of Vivian's amazing photos:

 

The doc trailer:

 

 (Photos via the New York Times and Colossal)