Bong’s acknowledgment of Brocka’s influence invites us to consider how two extremely skilled auteurs
attack class issues, and a good place to begin would be to hold side by side the
Oscar-sweeping Parasite (2019) and Brocka’s magnum opus
Manila in the Claws of Light (1975).
“It was really hot, it was the end of summer, there was a lot of flies around and
I remember they were really attracted to Ethan’s desk.”
A dance mashup from the Golden Age.
A behind-the-scenes look at Derek Cianfrance shooting B-Roll for
The Place Beyond The Pines.
Christopher Walken cannot stop dancing.
“We tried to legitimize it a lot by prettying it up, using veteran actors,
handling our camera a certain way and we knew we had to do damage control from the start because
people will look at it as just another hood movie, so we had to take very precise care of it.”
“My favorite filmmaker is Frank Capra. He talked about the redemption of the human spirit
– not the superhero, but the common man.”
“At one point he tells Mr. Cooper ‘you can be boss down there, I’ll be boss up here’,
which must’ve felt like every nightmare for people who were against bringing down Jim Crow laws,
who were against equal pay, anyone who was afraid of the social structure,
was seeing their worst nightmare on screen in
Duane Jones in Night Of The Living Dead.”
“It’s the big element of our medium, isn’t it? The manipulation of time, the perception of time, the control of time- it’s kinda the building blocks of cinema.”
“You’re animating the invisible thing, the hidden motivations in the heart.”