ON VARIOUS BOOKS ABOUT DIRECTING…
“I’m frequently asked for suggestions of books about directing–by students, and others who want to direct. Here are some of my favorites, which hopefully provide a good place to start.”
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, MY ADVICE…
“A friend used to say to me–free advice is worth exactly what you pay for it, which is nothing. However, that doesn’t seem to stop people from asking and I find that I say the same things over and over. So here goes: my advice here on my blog, where I can direct people to read it when they come knocking…
These are some random thoughts–some specific, some more general–but hopefully some of you will find some of it helpful.”
HITCHCOCK’S MID-CENTURY AMERICAN MAN
“Even Hitchcock films that are considered lighter entertainment—like NORTH BY NORTHWEST—can be analyzed for their insightful examination of human behavior. After all, what is the journey of Roger Thornhill (played by Cary Grant), if not the journey of a man towards self-realization?”
TO WANT AND NOT TO HAVE – AN ANALYSIS OF “A PLACE IN THE SUN”
“Indeed her effect on him was electric—thrilling—arousing in him a curiously stinging sense of what it was to want and not to have—to wish to win and yet to feel, almost agonizingly that he was destined not even to win a glance from her.” –Theodore Dreiser
STILL HERE WITH ME — MEDITATIONS ON THE FILM “BIRTH”
“Perhaps this film affects me so much because it feels so personal to me. In 1988 my first significant other died, when he and I were both 32. It was a shattering loss for me and completely upended my sense of reality. For a very long time, my grief enveloped everything and colored the way I looked at the world. Years passed before the wound could heal–grief takes a long time to transform, to give birth to something else.”
DREAMSCAPES
“Everything we see hides another thing. We always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” –Rene Magritte “Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a
FELLINI: CONSIDERING THE IDEAL
March 19, 2011 On our recent trip to Rome we went to the Trevi Fountain. Unlike the evocative scene in Fellini’s LA DOLCE VITA, the fountain was not deserted and
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PLACE
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” –Shakespeare November 12, 2010 There’s an idea
PARALLAX VIEWS
parallax |ˈparəˌlaks| noun the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions, e.g., through the viewfinder and the lens of a
ADAPTATIONS AND INSPIRATIONS
March 14, 2010 This past week I shot a series of fragrance commercials, three for women and one for men. They’re brief and, since the viewer is not able to
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