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WANDER DARKLY

December 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment

WANDER DARKLY

WANDER DARKLY is the antidote to the generic rom-com. Set in the subjective viewpoint of a woman who is convinced that she is dead, it explores a relationship gone wrong using the unencumbered honesty of retrospection. The woman is Adrienne (Sienna Miller), who is always quick to point out that the father of her infant,… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, car crash, grief, illusion, reality, Trauma

TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR

May 2, 2017 By 2 Comments

TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR

You could, if so inclined, sit back and enjoy Richard Mundy’s counterintuitively dynamic film, TWENTY TWENTY- FOUR, merely as an engrossing study of a loner going slowly mad in isolation. As the difference between reality and madness builds to a fever pitch, the mystery of what exactly is happening in Roy’s underground bunker matches the… Read More »

Tagged With: bunker, computer interface, dystopia, isolation, nuclear war, paranoia, reality

Perry Blackshear, MacLeod Andrews & Evan Dumouchel Insist that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE

February 18, 2015 By 1 Comment

Perry Blackshear, MacLeod Andrews & Evan Dumouchel Insist that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE

  THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE is a first-rate existential horror film, as well as a psychological thriller. I got the same vibe watching it that I had gotten watching PI and BRICK, the maiden efforts of Darren Aronofsky and Rian Johnson respectively. Writer/director Perry Blackshear understands more than just how to create evocative, even sumptuous, visuals, he knows… Read More »

Tagged With: ABSENTIA, alienation, apocalypse, cinema, Danny Boyle, dating, delusions, demons, director, emotional trauma, Evan Dumouchel, existential, friendship, horror, indie film, interview, isolation, loneliness, MacLeod Andrews, male-bonding rituals, Mike Flanagan, movie, OCCULUS, Pantheon of Evil, paranoia, paranormal, Perry Blackshear, primal fear, reality, schizophrenia, screenwriter, self-help, Slamdance, sound design, SUNSHINE, suspense, THE LOOK LIKE PEOPLE, thriller

Brit Marling Considers ANOTHER EARTH

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Brit Marling Considers ANOTHER EARTH

ANOTHER EARTH is a film that sets the synapses firing with its consideration of identity, reality, and redemption as it posits a reality where the sky is suddenly filled with a duplicate of our home planet. When I spoke with co-writer and co-star Brit Marling on July 14, 2011, the conversation reflected that as it… Read More »

Tagged With: Brit Marling, identity, metaphysics, narrative, reality, redemption, Sci-fi, speculative fiction

Armistead Maupin & Patrick Stettner Pay Attention to THE NIGHT LISTENER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Armistead Maupin & Patrick Stettner Pay Attention to THE NIGHT LISTENER

The story on which Armistead Maupin based his novel and now film THE NIGHT LISTENER proves the old axiom that truth is stranger than fiction. When I spoke to him and to the director of the film, Patrick Stettner, on July 26, 2006, I was curious what conclusions they had drawn about the human capacity to… Read More »

Tagged With: Armistead Maupin, book to screen, director, human nature, illusion, Mr Rogers, mystery, narrative, Patrick Stettner, radio personality, reality, Robin Williams, screenwriter, self-deception, suspense

Andrew Niccol on Creating SIMONE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Andrew Niccol on Creating SIMONE

In S1M0NE, Andrew Niccol (GATTACA, THE TRUMAN SHOW) presents an intriguing and, for SAG members, a somewhat disturbing glimpse of what the future of entertainment might be. In it, a computer-generated actress becomes a pop-culture sensation for a public that doesn’t know that she’s a collection of pixels. What that says about reality and perception is something worth… Read More »

Tagged With: Al Pacino, director, Ethan Hawke, fantasy, film, movie, narrative, perception, reality, SAG, Sci-fi, science fiction, special effects, Uma Thurman, virtual reality

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