June 23, 2004
To follow-up my theater related post below, here's Neil LaBute talking about why he likes the stage more than film.
But back to movies. I just finished watching A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Cinema, which chronicles the role of the director, personified by the filmmakers Scorsese personally found most influential and inspirational, from the birth of cinema up until he himself started making films in the sixties. It's just under four hours long, is far too short, and was yet another reminder of how many amazing movies there are out there that I still haven't seen. The clips from Duel In The Sun particularly struck my fancy. After it was over, I went straight to Netflix, determined to finally sign up, lack of income be damned, but the site was down for maintenance.
The doc was made in 1995, which I had forgotten until Scorsese started talking about Kubrick and how he "moved to London, where he still lives and works." That brought back memories of going to my high school library and reading on-set reports from Eyes Wide Shut on the internet during lunch. By that point I had seen most of his films and was a big fan, and remember thinking how important it was that he was, at that moment, shooting a new one.
Posted by David Lowery at June 23, 2004 2:16 AM