
I don't remember the first time I met David Kinder, but it was probably sometime early in 1982. I had started writing film reviews for the Riverfront Times in the fall of '81 and was just starting to make connections to get onto mailing lists and into press screenings; David was running two of the most important film series in the area, one at the Saint Louis Art Museum, the other at Webster College (it wasn't a university yet).…