IF CINEMA IS TRUTH

then we begin with heartbreak

one

more

day

Once I read these words I couldn’t shake the feeling of those echoing rings as parents sobbed on the other end of the line. Like a seed, the pain grew into a single take that hoped to get past finger pointing around gun control. That noise on the news is a way to escape the tragedy, helping us look away from the carnage and find new ways to not imagine our loved ones waiting to be carried off.

w i n n e r ↔ c a n n e s l i o n ↔ d a & d p e n c I l ↔ v i m e o s t a f f p I c k

‘The cell phones in the pockets
of the
students
were still ringing
when we were told that it was wrong to ask why.’

THE
GREAT FAIR

I wanted to discover
AN America
I hadn’t
Seen before.

I still remember the first time I saw The Great American Cowboy. Overwhelmed by the slow motion, the voiceover—the power, it was like seeing the essence of cinema [words, images, sounds] for the first time.

After wrapping Feral, Colleen Dodge and I spent the summer crossing the country seeking the people, places and peculiarities that celebrate the best parts of our country.

f e a t u r e d ↔ d i r e c t o r  n o t e s  p r e m i e r e ↔ v i m e o s t a f f p i c k

f e s t i v a l s ↔ b u s h w i c k ↔ a n c h o r a g e ↔ m a r y l a n d ↔ I f f b o s t o n

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I don’t know if I’ve ever felt more alive moment to moment in the act of creation.

We wrote it in two weeks and six weeks later I was in the tunnels for the first time in years, trying to find the scars of the wiped away mole people.

I saw the tunnels get ripped apart and knew it was the last chance to make it part of my story.

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FERAL

r e v i e w s ↔ v a r i e t y ↔ n y  t i m e s ↔ h o l l y w o o d  r e p o r t e r


f e s t i v a l s ↔ w p. s a r a s o t a ↔ b u s h w I c k ↔ m i d d l e b u r y ↔ y e s ↔
a r I z o n a u n d e r g r o u n d ↔ d u m b o ↔ a n c h o r a g e / s I d e w a l k ↔
m o n t r e a l f e s t i v a l d u n o u v e a u c I n é m a


d i s t r i b u t o r ↔ 1 0 9 1 ↔ s t r e a m  n o w

PAUL SCHRADER

FUTURE OF MOVIES

70TH BIENNALE DE VENEZIA

I still remember when Paul forwarded me the request from Venice asking what the future of cinema would be. I told him it what Coppola said 50 years ago had come true and we had to decide what’s next. We built the rig, climbed the high line and opened the festival with Bertolucci’s submission.

UNDERCITY

I
wanted
to see
it all.

My dream of remaking C.H.U.D. turned into 36 nights of exploring the city beneath our feet. The first night I told Steve to explain things to me like he was taking me out on a date. I lost my shoe jumping out the way of a train, climbed the bridge with a bloody shin and knew I had found something real.

i n t e r v i e w ↔ t o d a y

p r e s s ↔ n y t i m e s ↔ n p r ↔ w i r e d

v i m e o s t a f f p I c k