Update!

[Tao Ruspoli]

-Burning Man was, as always, awe inspiring. Photos here:
http://www.taoruspoli.com/Photography/Burning-Man-2009/9566667_cBRbZ#643515754_7HVbf

-Olivia's parents' incredible film about the financial crisis, American
Casino, is opening at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly HIlls on Friday. If
you are anywhere in Southern California, go see it!!!!!
More info at http://www.laemmle.com/viewmovie.php?mid=5072

-Shot Olivia for Malibu magazine:
http://www.malibumag.com/site/article/olivia_wilde/P1/

-New website for FIX, which opens in NY in November and comes out on DVD in
December! http://fixthemovie.com/

-Editing my new film Being in the World, a celebration of human beings
through the eyes of philosophers Hubert Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger and many
others. More soon...

-A little flamenco guitar by yours truly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyjzi0Z5I-U

*Reviews of American Casino:

“FASCINATING! A TERRIFIC documentary chronicling the subprime-mortgage mess
and the financial collapse of the past two years…
With a rare cohesive power, the Cockburns fill in the lines of connection.
They function a little like Raymond Chandler as he traces the corruption
that produces, at the end of a long chain of circumstances, the lady in the
lake... The movie is a lucid and comprehensive picture of a rotten system.”
– David Denby, The New Yorker
Click here to full review

“Aerial shots of decaying properties suggest an unfolding real-life version
of a horror film, meticulously structured.”
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“Authoritative, far-reaching.” – Jim Ridley, Village Voice

“Leslie and Andrew Cockburn's searing expose of the subprime mortgage crisis
matches Wall Street's numbers and graphics
to the flesh-and-blood individuals whose lives have been devastated by the
deliberate machinations of bankers and traders.”
– Ronnie Scheib, Variety

“No heist thriller could ever compete with this probing documentary about
the subprime mortgage scandal and the financial industry’s
greedy embrace of a $12 trillion taxpayer bailout… (by) longtime muckrakers
Andrew and Leslie Cockburn...
The movie manages to get its arms around a complicated story that
constitutes one of the great moral outrages in U.S. history.”
– J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

“An often devastating history of the greed, cynicism and short-term myopia
that got us all into this current mess.”
– Kevin Lally, Film Journal International

“A revelatory howl against the still-gestating, $8 trillion-and-counting
financial-services industry bailout.” – Bill Weber, Slant Magazine online
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I hope you are well!
Sending you all much love,
Tao
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Tao Ruspoli
Director, Mangusta & LAFCO productions
www.taoruspoli.com

"I am certain of nothing but the
holiness of the heart's affections,
and the truth of imagination" -Keats
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