Discovery Productions

06/10/2024

Simple pleasures. Enjoying the best cup of coffee in LA ( ) with one of the best people on the planet . ☕️ 💙

05/29/2024

We have houseguests! 🐦 Exhibiting excellent parenting, skills: calm and keeping a close watch. 📷:

05/17/2024

“Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.” - Dennis Hopper. You succeeded, Dennis. And then some. Born on this day, May 17, in Dodge City, Kansas.

04/19/2024

Opening Night for Fernanda Lavera Exhibition I’M NOT A ROBOT. Bold. Stunning. artwork on view through June 28, 2024 . 🙏🏼 for inviting me !

04/09/2024

🎶 Total Eclipse of the Sun! 🎶 My view from SoHo House & John’s from our backyard. 🙏🏼 John for getting us safety glasses. BTW You can recycle eclipse 👓 at & WB will donate them to people🧑🏽👩🏼👨for future 🌖 solar eclipses.

03/09/2024

Wasting away in Margaritaville… 😉🍹🙃 (thanks cousin Amy for snapping this pic) And yes, I drained this monster! 😵‍💫

01/18/2024

Happy Birthday Zach! So proud of you. 💙

01/15/2024

For artists like & their daily bread is all about the work; the Awards and recognition are icing on the cake. And it’s awfully nice when the Emmys brings your friends to LA. Good luck to Brian Cox and the Succession team tonight! Wonderful that TV and Film have exposed Brian‘s work to large audiences. If you get the chance to see Brian on stage, don’t miss it. He’s opening in Eugene O’Neill‘s LONG DAY’s JOURNEY INTO NIGHT directed by Jeremy Herrin at the Wyndham in London in March. Photos are from two stage productions that blew me away. RAT IN THE SKULL (Brian got the Olivier) and STRANGE INTERLUDE with the late great Glenda Jackson.

01/13/2024

TOTEM has so much heart. Beautiful film directed by Lila Alviles. About family, life, love, loss, joy. Naíma Sentíes as Sol is our way in and she is wonderful. 🇲🇽

01/13/2024

Lotta love for 4K Restoration in my . & I embarked on this journey to bring Dennis Hopper‘s magnificent film and LInda Manz’ incredible portrayal of Cebe to new audiences. And Sharon Farrell’s heartbreaking Kathy. It’s something to see the personal connection so many of you have to this film. Power of storytelling is timeless. Here’s wishing you and yours a lot of good things in 2024.

01/08/2024

Power of friendship is limitless: Bonnie Stoll and Diana Nyad. fierce belief she could swim 110 miles in open ocean from Cuba to Florida was matched by her friend whose support and coaching helped Nyad accomplish her lifelong dream. At 60!!!! Nyad‘s book FIND A WAY and capture their journey beautifully.

12/17/2023

A lot of Radio Free Albemuth birthdays to celebrate today! Author Philip K. Dick, RFA director John Alan Simon and actors Jonathan Scarfe & Jon Tenney. solo shot is front of PKD‘s house in Berkeley when we screened Radio Free Albemuth at the Philip K. Dick Festival.

12/09/2023

With Jessica Chastain for MEMORY. Beautiful film. Written and directed by Michel Franco. Wonderful cast: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever, Brooke Timber, Elsie Fisher, Josh Charles and Jessica Harper. Mexican-American production.

10/31/2023

Halloween Treats 🎃 💀 ☠️ 👻 Chocolate skeleton and pumpkin spice cakes. I don’t even like marshmallow candy, but I found these peeps ghosties irresistible! And rest your weary bones on a skull throw pillow… HAPPY TRICK OR TREATING! 🎃 🎃👻🕷️

09/25/2023

Happy Anniversary to my best friend and husband, John, Alan Simon! What better place to celebrate than where it all began at my cousin’s beautiful 🍂compound in Door County. 💙 No filter - Egg Harbor sky, and Lake Michigan are really that blue. 💙 🍂

09/20/2023

Beautiful Egg Harbor!

08/14/2023

Linda Manz, August 20, 1961 - August 14, 2020. Gone, but never forgotten. Portrait by our friend inspired by Linda’s iconic image on the poster.

08/05/2023

Sharon Farrell, Dennis, Hopper, Linda Manz, Out of the Blue. Haunting. For those of us who’ve see , the Barnes family leaves a deep mark. Her sister recently shared that Sharon Farrell passed away in May. Talented actress, and a spitfire IRL right up into her 80s. Sharon, Dennis and Linda are gone from earth, but never forgotten. RIP

07/28/2023

Philip K. Dick panel, 2023! Lovely, sharing the stage with other PKD filmmakers, scholars and fans, including my partner . Panel moderated by . Packed auditorium & great questions from the audience.

07/23/2023

John Alan Simon & I are at doing a panel all about Philip K. Dick. Sunday, July 23 at 3:15 PM. Join us, and the other panelists, while we explore the prescience and sheer brilliance of this great sci-fi author.

06/07/2023

Intimate, beautiful film. Luminous performance by Rosy McEwen. First feature from Writer-Director Georgia Oakley. Blue Jean Opens in theatres June 9 from . Set in 1988 England about a le***an woman’s struggle to navigate work,love and family in in an environment increasingly hostile to g**s. By laser focus on Jean‘s relationships then, Oakley finds the relevance of her film’s themes still today.

02/19/2023

Great to see Discovery Productions 4K Restoration of Out of the Blue - Dennis Hopper on Severin Films disc's FIVE nominations for Shelf Shock Rewind Awards 2022!!! The Physical Media Awards Show to honor the best releases in 2022! Streams live on Sunday, Feb. 19 @ 7 pm ET.

Today, Sunday, Feb. 19, 7 pm ET Shelf Shock Rewind Awards.
OUT OF THE BLUE 4K Restoration nominations:
Best Home Video Restoration Upgrade
Best Visual Essay- "Subverting Normality: Linda Manz Comes from Out of the Blue"
Best Commentary- Kat Ellinger
Best Overall Extra Features Package
Best Region A Release
Be there! Shelf Shock Rewind Awards 2022!!! The Physical Media Awards Show to honor the best releases in 2022!
Live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd5LAejM0Yk
Live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/Disc_Connected

12/31/2022

2022 Best loved IG posts belong to 4K restoration! Dennis Hopper’s OUT OF THE BLUE 40th anniversary Theatrical Re-release played 50+ cities in US Canada and Europe. More coming in 2023. 💫 Restoration and theatrical release by & my company Discovery Productions. Huge respect and gratitude for my partner John Alan Simon who was the engine then and now for getting Dennis Hopper’s magnificent film in front of audiences. And big thanks to everyone who is taking this journey with us, including presenters & 🎞️ the wizards at where we restored the film 🎞️ co-exec producers 🎞️ & slacker backer supporters 🎞️ audiences & theatre bookers around the 🌎🎞️ everyone who bought a 📀 from & Out of the Blue website 🎞️ interviewees on 📀 special features including 🎞️ & 📀 contributors including 🎞️ our friend 🎞️reviewers, bloggers, essayists who wrote about the film and restoration & 2K+ reviewers who took the time to share their experience of OUT OF THE BLUE. It’s incredible how Dennis Hopper’s film and Linda Manz performance touches so many lives .🙏🏼💙💫

12/15/2022

Bright lights. Big city. Loving LA wintry wear-a-coat weather & seeing movies at CAA with . Awards Season screenings are in full swing.

10/31/2022

Happy Sweet Halloween! 🎃😋 Stay safe out there! 🎃👻🕷️

10/14/2022

Beautiful, powerful, heartbreaking documentary about a Polish town whose Jewish population was decimated by the Holocaust. Directed by Bianca Stigter: Three Minutes - A Lengthening. Three minutes of 16 mm footage shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in Nasielsk, discovered by his grandson, Glenn Kurtz. The home movie is shot on a happy occasion - visiting the town Kurtz grew up in before he emigrated to America. Children and adults gather around, smiling and kibbutzing for the camera happy to be caught on film. Not knowing that within a few months they would be rounded up by n***s and Polish collaborators and sent to the camps and their deaths. Finding the footage sent the grandson on an odyssey to find out as much as he could about the people on film. He donated the footage to the . He wrote a book. That book and now this film unravel their stories as best they can with so little to go on. And yet, these adults and children caught forever in celluloid become vividly alive. It is one of the most imaginative documentaries I’ve seen that brings home the brutal loss of lives and inhumanity of the Holocaust. The score is somber and poignant. Voices in the film include Glenn Kurtz, Maurice Chandler, who appears in the film as a boy and narrator Helena Bonham Carter. As they discover and reveal the stories, so do we. For a brief moment, we are transported back to that village in 1938. But unlike the Jews in Nasielsk, we know what Hell awaits. History is not over yet.

09/29/2022

John Alan Simon and I had a great couple of creative weeks with “Coming Home in the Dark” Writer/Director James Ashcroft. Catch James’ brilliant horror thriller on .

09/19/2022

Happy birthday to beautiful, wonderful Rosemary Harris! Brilliant actress on stage and screen. Kind and generous friend. Performing Chekhov, Shakespeare and other Classics Midsummer in Oxford was bliss! 💫🙏🏼🎭🎂

09/19/2022

Great thing about releasing a film is talking to journalists and cinephiles about FILM. Taking a deep dive into a shared love and appreciation for movies & filmmaking. Felicity Ford aka “Flick” zoom interviewed & me for Melbourne premiere September 22-29. Flick’s 📻show Primal Screen airs on Monday 7pm. GMT+10. We loved talking to Flick and Flick loves Dennis Hoppers’s OUT OF THE BLUE and was blown away by Linda Manz‘s performance. If you go see out of the blue in Melbourne let me know. Shows are selling out but they are adding more!

09/03/2022

Kind, compassionate, intelligent, warm, giving welcoming, fun are only the beginning of adjectives for this wonderful woman my siblings and I call mom. Her big heart and loving embrace reached out to our extended family and the students she taught and the communities she lived in. She made a mark. She made a difference. Thinking about you today mom. Grateful to you for giving me life and values. 🙏🏼 🎂💫 ❤️