Whenever I hear/read someone discussing something amazing happening in LA, like a cast/crew screening, or the Jason Reitman live readings, etc., I get so very jealous that I can't partake. But as I constantly have to remind my kids, who said life is supposed to be fair?

Even growing up in Boston, with it's extremely vibrant film culture (helped by the 50+ colleges and universities in the area), just pales in comparison to having QT or Edgar Wright drop in to show their favorite movies in a great theater with some of the people who made them--which regretfully will always be a pipe dream to those outside of LA.

I'll just have to make do with the Seattle Cinerama and the SIFF (which is really great this year, btw), and live vicariously through those who can.

Cheers

There's tons of awesome film knowledge to be had outside of SoCal, though.  Toronto, New Mexico, and Austin are cities that see a ton of production and have great film communities.  As a result they get a lot of cool events.

I mostly make stuff up.

Cinefex has been mentioned at least a few times on the show (I believe by Dorkman) and on Adam Savage's podcast. It looks very, very cool but I've hesitated subscribing or buying older issues online because I'm worried it's so industry specific as to not be approachable to the layman. Any thoughts?

Reading books about film making by Bogdonavitch and Ebert and others has been more instructive than reading Cinefex, tho. And listening to the director's commentary on the movie is better still. Here and there you get bits of film making philosophy dropped into the "it was so cold that day" stories.