Just minutes before I left the house for our recent Eastport screening of What a Way to Go, a friend posted a video of the tsunami in Japan. It was the most striking footage I’d yet seen. I sat there, mesmerized by the unfolding flood, struck by how calmly it proceeded, how quietly, how inexorably. [...]
Continue reading...Well this is a treat. Guy Morant who, along with Kristen Lagadec, translated What a Way to Go into French (which I am busily adding now to the DVD master!), just sent me a translation of my latest blog! So here it is! I didn’t add in all the links, as my [...]
Continue reading...Nine percent into the year now, this phrase keeps leaping at me from behind the bushes of my mind. It comes from the movie version of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two, a film directed by Peter Hyams in 1984. I remembered liking this sequel quite a bit at the time I first saw it, [...]
Continue reading...“You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered . . .
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your [...]
When I watch a movie, my thinking always wanders to the same few questions.
How is this a story for our time?
What does this film tell us about ourselves, our deepest feelings, our secret thoughts, our invisible yearnings?
And how conscious are the filmmakers themselves about these processes?
Because we seem to be living in a time of [...]