Colleen Laird
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Marketing the Auteur, Cast and Crew in the Acknowledgments
Thank you, Casey, for starting off this week's conversation with not only a solid reminder of the collaborative effort that goes into filmmaking, but a refresher of the complexities of both the "auteur" director persona and the "indie& ... -
Maria, I'm quite taken with
Maria, I'm quite taken with the metaphors you are employing to think about our relationship with authorship! You've provided such a nice conpliment to Casey's writeup on Sunday. Borrowing your metaphors, I'm now thinking of the marketa ... -
Corralling as Collaboration
Hi Braden. A nice shift here in authorship, from three posts about writers/directors to performers. Here, as you outline, the collaboration between director and actor mediates the actor's signature style (for better or worse, as you note). I immediat ... -
Kore'eda
Thank you, Geoffrey. I recommend nearly every Kore'eda film, especially his earlier works like Afterlife and Maboroshi. He can be a little heavyhanded with morality here and there, but he truly is a master of the craft. ... -
audience participation
I'll chime in with the crowd here--the idea of a coutroom drama engaging with audiences directly is so interesting and, from a 2019 perspective, also chilling. It's not hard to go to a dystopian place, something akin to a Black Mirror episode, i ... -
timely
Thank you, Haley, for this post. This clip, particularly as you situate it in our current political climate, is both heartbreaking and powerful. I haven't read To Kill a Mockingbird in decades, but it's back on my reading list. ... -
Involuntary Musical Imagery
Fascinating! I used to mimic this sound on the plaground all the time as a kid (and the Law and Order theme song was one of my favorites). I'm so charmed by Hayley's anecdote that everyone in the airport knew the two notes immediately--what a ... -
justice and masculinity
There's certainly something at work in the courtroom drama, as you suggest, with regards to the defense of masculinity. It would be interesting to pair the development of paternity defense in film with development in women's legal rights. Kramer ... -
Kore'eda and truth
Hi Katie, Absolutely, judgement and truth seem to be overarching themes in Kore'eda's body of work. Of course I haven't seen it yet, but his film The Truth that just premeired at VIFF seems to be right on the nose. If you like Kore'e ...