“If the Film is the Producer’s Baby, We Fully Adopt that Baby”: Silje Glimsdal on Film Sales
I’m talking to a young director at a film festival who hasn’t seen any movies in the festival’s program, except several in the retrospective slate. He doesn’t like to watch many contemporary films, he explains, because he’d rather be influenced only by the classic greats. Sort of pretentious, I think, not to support the work of his peers. Also, a little sneaky, to excuse himself from typical film festival banter, dodging the obligatory ego-stroking or untimely bad-mouthing that everyone else endures. But the director’s resistance to new festival favorites is not a personal judgment on their quality, he insists, but a […]
by Taylor Hess on Dec 15, 2015
