Easy enough: I definitely wished that I had 10 percent more head capacity. Call it intelligence, understanding, analytic ability, lateral thinking, insight into psychology or just mathematics. I felt a deficit. As a first-time feature director I went pretty fucking cockily into the process. I reckoned my vast experience in music videos, commercials and short films had prepared me for anything that would come my way, production-wise. I believed my life as a devoted reader had rendered me understanding about characters and stories and, finally, that my love for film had filled my mental archive to the brim of how […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2008The great film blog Green Cine, which is something of a daily imperative for any literate cinephile, has so many interesting links up today that I might as well give them props for all of the below: An interview with video director Johan Renck on the eve of his first feature, Downloading Nancy, a story about a woman who arranges for herself to be killed by a guy she meets on the interet but changes her mind when she falls for him. Stars Holly Hunter, and the interview is linked to downloadable videos from Madonna and New Order, among others. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 11, 2006