Every year, the Australian-based online quarterly, Senses of Cinema, invites writers from all over the globe to submit their selections for the best movies of the year—including those seen for the first time regardless of the year of release. As I … Continue reading SENSES OF CINEMA: 2021 World Cinema Poll
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
Writers themselves aren’t that dramatic or empathetic a subject,” screenwriter Sarah Gubbins says. “As a genus and species they are wont to be solitary, sedentary, and sullen. Social mores often elude them. As a breed they are prone to paranoia, … Continue reading Home Viewing: Writers on Screen
I am interested in the story and the characters. The camera is an instrument, it’s the microscope which allows you to detect the “melody of the look.” It’s a wonderful instrument because its microscopic power is for me the equivalent … Continue reading Born On This Day — August 7, 1911
If it were all in the script, why make the film? —Nicholas Ray Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, August 7, 2013
The closer I get to my ending, the closer I am getting to rewriting my beginning. —Nicholas Ray Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, July 3, 2013
You like these films, but you can’t imagine how often they represent only fifty percent of what I wanted to do. You have no idea how I had to fight to achieve even that fifty percent. —Nicholas Ray Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, June 6, 2013
In the beginning I just wanted to make movies, but with the passage of time the journey itself was no longer the goal, but what you find at the end. Now, I make films to discover something I didn’t know, very much … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, January 25, 2013
One thing is certain, time and space play no role at all in the construction of a film, the cinema is unaware of them; a scene can carry you into another world, another age. One simply tries to capture, in … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, November 10, 2012
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