I would say Hal Hartley is among my top twenty heroes in cinema. As a viewer, his films are just what I want to see; intelligent, witty, insightful, literate, with precise visual compositions and gentle rythms. The comedy is often subversive with subtle irony, and...
Of course, for many filmmakers being independent is everything. Being able to produce their own work without interference and without being subjected to the sheer boredom of going down the industrial route is of paramount importance to them. With developments in technology and the way...
With Noirish Project, I wanted to get away from impressive, domineering cinema, which exists merely as a showcase for itself, and sees the audience as simply an appendage to the career's of the filmmakers. Noirish Project offers no loud emotionalism nor any of the ultra-realistic-extreme-violence...
Mauro Bolognini's 1963 film La Curruzione is the fabulous story about Stefano Mattoli, played by Jacques Perrin. At the start of the film, we see Stefano graduate from college before journeying back to his family home in order to get permission from his father to start...
I once knew an actor who, every time I ran into him, kept telling me that he was going to make a feature film and that there was a part in it for me. The first time he told me this, I thought "oh wow"...
When Jacques Rivette arrived in Paris, he stayed with the only friend he had. A local bookshop owner told him Robert Bresson's Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne was playing at a film club and Rivette went along. There he met Eric Rohmer who was a...
We are living in an era where there are more people offering themselves as actors than ever before. You can try to get ahead of the game by turning yourself into a great actor, by striving to be better than everyone else. But you can...
One of the key lessons learned while making Noirish Project has been adaptability, adjusting our plan to deal with the actual situation in front of us. This was especially true of locations, where very often the actual location used was very different to what was in...
