On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to talk about Shirley, about the writer Shirley Jackson, two of Josephine Decker’s previous films, and recommend a few more movies about writers—Veronica even tosses … Continue reading
From Boulder Weekly Vol. 25, No. 39, “How we got here.” What good does it, writing about classic films? If it’s covering an undiscovered gem or a movie never properly released, that’s one thing. But to cover a classic, a … Continue reading IN A LONELY PLACE
“I don’t think plot as a plot means much today. I’d say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven’t seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don’t worry much about plot anymore.” “I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story change the name of the characters, change the name of the town and make an entirely different picture.” –Howard Hawks Continue reading Born On This Day – May 30, 1896
“You think you know fuck everything and I know fuck nothing. Well let me tell you, I know fuck all!” “The next time I want an idiot to do this, I’ll do it myself!” –Michael Curtiz (and his wonderful grasp of the English language Continue reading Born On This Day – December 24
“The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.” -John Huston Continue reading In Their Words – Thursday, November 1, 2012
