Music For Maternity

Alive Inside:A Story of Music & Memory fits my category Movies That Should Play in Sag Harbor. This Friday it opens nationally, as it begins its second week in NYC. Director Michael Rossato-Bennett literally ran to the post office before its midnight closing in order to submit it in time to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. At Sundance his film won the Documentary Audience Award and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene–equipped with an iPod and earphones, long-time nursing home resident Henry, who suffers from dementia, sits up in his wheelchair for the first time in years and starts cheerfully singing along to the Cab Calloway song–Alive Inside is extraordinarily uplifting. Read more here…