“I tell people that my camera is a healing mechanism. Whatever you’re thinking
about that is negative or positive, just release it onto me right now…
let me photograph it and take it away from you.”
Kaufman and I quickly settled into a routine of talking on the phone every Wednesday,
usually for an hour and a half or longer at a time. At least once, to be polite,
I offered to give him a break, but Kaufman didn’t seem to want one.
“The more we talk, the more I have a chance of saying
something that’s not idiotic,” he said.
“I’m very skeptical of storylines. So much so that I turn a script’s narrative
over in my head endlessly, to the point that often, at the last minute,
I want to cancel the filming of it.”
“Safe” is an unsettling film to watch while in quarantine from a disease that feels
both everywhere and nowhere, and which is being willfully misunderstood
by powerful people who can’t quite care enough to fight it.
“I had to find four young guys that together would create a fifth character,
which was the group mind. There were no actors that I felt could play these roles.
It had to be real, it had to be what was really going on in the streets.”
David Lynch shares his insights into his life, his work and his many passions
– painting, film, music and meditation during his visit to Australia for
‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’.
“You might be in search of books to read and films to watch on the subjects of protests,
racial injustice, and police brutality. Below are 12 documentaries worth
watching today and always.”
We have so many ideas for episodes now and are being joined by people in different areas of the craft.
We find ourselves continually coming back to the collaborative nature of the film business
and this makes us want to delve into all the areas of making a film.
I was asked to make a five to ten minute film about Marty to introduce his retrospective.
As it happened, Marty was shooting THE DEPARTED at that time.
I asked him if I could follow him for a week or two,
and he said yes. So that’s how this film happened.
“A glimpse into the mind – and heart – of wild western elegist Sam Peckinpah
during the making of his still underestimated 1974 quasi-self-portait,
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia.“