Word: writer-director
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...isolated desert camp on the pretext of fixing their car. Around a campfire, he tells his captive audience: "Fair dinkum, I get around. You never know where I'll pop up." Almost an hour into Wolf Creek, the pressure has become almost unbearable. Which is exactly how first-time writer-director Greg Mclean wants it. When he learns that at a recent screening, five people left the theater around this point in the movie, and only four came back, his voice perks up: "They came back? That's amazing...
...Zant because they are both of equal importance,” says one character in Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown,” the latest work from the creative genius behind “Almost Famous.” In this new film, the writer-director attempts to make sense of the varied and often irreverent cultural contrasts and contradictions he finds amid the Mississippi River Valley. Crowe starts his film in the contrastingly sterile and bland corporate world, in which shoe designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) has just been fired (“Jerry Maguire?...
When a book becomes a movie, the novelist goes from author to spectator--always a bewildering transition, even more so when the book in question is based on his life. For me the process began about four years ago, three years after the novel's publication, when writer-director Mike Mills invited me to his house in California to discuss his adaptation of the book. He had shortened the time span of the narrative, combined several young female characters into one and focused on the protagonist's complex relationship with his unhappy mother. He had improved my work, in other...
...only mistake Linklater thinks he made was allowing a video-game trailer stocked with junk food on the set. The kids, he says, "were all putting on weight." Unlike his local friend, reclusive writer-director Terrence Malick, Linklater doesn't think moviemaking is some big Sisyphean chore to fret over. "[Malick] is a guy who sees his movies and thinks, 'I would have done that differently.' I see mine and say, 'Given the circumstances, that's what I did and that's what I'd do again.' I don't know how much of a free-will...
...first few minutes of Saraband, certain viewers will slip instantly into the world of Ingmar Bergman. The immediate clue is the presence of two familiar actors, Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson, stalwarts of the Swedish writer-director's informal repertory troupe. Here they are revisiting the roles they played in the 1972 Scenes from a Marriage, to which the new work is not so much a sequel as a descendant. There are also echoes of a dozen or more of Bergman's despairing, exhilarating films. The old themes nudge you: death, and those who aspire to it; love...