Draw your own conclusions.
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I don’t care who sits in the director’s chair as long as she or he knows what they’re doing. Apparently, Hollywood is not so open-minded.. nor open-walleted. Opportunities for filmmakers — other than young, white men or wealthy, older, white men — are very limited. Is it racism? Is it sexism? Does it matter? If we limit the scope of who can make movies, don’t we also limit the scope of the stories we’ll see?
On Friday, March 20th, 2009, KUOW’s Sound Focus aired an interview with yours truly about the unfortunate paucity of distaff directors. I name two women whose work I greatly admire and one who may be terribly over-rated… or, just terrible. As always, I urge you to draw your own conclusions and share them right here on this blog post. The smartest and/or funniest response received by Noon on Friday, March 27th, 2009 will receive a film related sur-prize!
Click below to hear my chat with public radio’s jovial Jeannie Yandel.
Today’s recommended viewing: BLUE CAR
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May 3rd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
[...] Catherine Hardwicke epitomizes hip… minus the attitude. The director — who rocked Baby Jesus, tweaked LORDS OF DOGTOWN and chaperoned Edward and Bella — is a strong-minded artist with a gentle soul and a gracious sense of humor. She is opinionated, yet compassionately so. Her desire to delay production of TWILIGHT’s sequel was well-considered; her commitment to the “greening” of film production is immensely laudable. [...]