Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maude Chopin: Basically we want to bring an international mix of provocative and well-made films to Newport that they otherwise wouldn't have an opportunity to see. We'd love to have a haven for film executives who don't want to go to a big mass market to come and enjoy the reasons they came into the film business in the first place, because they love movies. Yet, we don't want to be a big market. Although we do want to show things that are new and fresh, and it might be of interest to them, that...
...succeed. They have a certain personality and a certain desire to get things done. And then there are people who are purely talented and don't necessarily have an outlet in their personality to get the right people. If you're not a filmmaker and you think you might want to be one, you don't necessarily have to go to a film festival and meet Harvey Weinstein. Making a film looks easy, but there something that goes into the process that you get a sense of in film festivals...
Dancemaker, however, is different. An Oscar-nominated film about dance legend Paul Taylor, known by some as "the world's greatest choreographer," is not something you want to miss. Directed by Matthew Diamond, it presents many aspects of the modern dance world that Taylor helped shape. Diamond, who was himself a dancer and choreographer, is very successful in capturing poignant moments that will captivate any type of audience. From behind-the-scenes looks at his ballets revealing the creative process which went into them to interviews with company members that expose an ultra-competitive artistic world, Diamond paints an vibrant...
However, neither Diamond nor executive-producer Walter Scheuer (Oscar-winning From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China) paints a one-sided picture. After Taylor fires a company member simply because he "just didn't want to work with her anymore," one questions whether jealousy is an appropriate emotion. With honor and splendor come fatigue and exhaustion, and Diamond tells no lies. Both the professional pressure of being a modern dancer and the realities of continued physical exertion often climax to create an emotional and physical strain that is often unbearable for both dancer and choreographer...
...explain this to my friends and hear the standard reaction: "Twenty pages? And you've already written 15? I don't want to talk to you. I have 60 pages to write in the next five days...