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March 7, 2011

Lately

I finished the third draft of the next picture and since then have been existing in a bit of a haze. I've been working on the documentary I've been cutting lately, finishing up random odds and ends on a few other jobs and gradually pushing through the membrane of development. There's a chance this movie might actually happen on a larger scale than I'd initially planned. And if it doesn't - well, been there and done that. It looks like we'll shoot in either November or January, depending on the weather and the holidays.

The picture above has nothing to do with the new film. It was just a screengrab I took whilst watching Deadhead Miles the other day. I also rewatched Days Of Heaven for the first time since the first time I saw it, which may or may not have been on VHS (it wasn't, but I think I had a VHS copy from the library at one point that I never got around to watching). Seeing it on Blu-Ray made a big difference, for about five minutes, at which point my appreciation for the pristine image shifted to my subconscious and I just watched the movie. I noted that one of my favorite scenes from Anna Karenina (which I'd read since last seeing the film) had been adapted almost literally - or rather, the tone of the scene had been adapted, the suspense of two men with uneasy allegiances and a woman between them going out together with guns. I remember reading that chapter in the book and thinking it'd make a good movie all by itself. I wanted to put a quote from it here, but I can't find my copy of the book.

Posted by David Lowery at March 7, 2011 10:10 AM