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High Impact Filmmaking: Kathryn Bigelow

“I don’t want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.” “Everyone else seemed so much more normal. I began drawing in order to create my own universe. I still have a tendency to withdraw into my own world. Directing films requires communication with hundreds of people, and it has made me open up.” "Exactly, there are rest notes and there are flurries. You need rest moments where the camera is simply covering two people in an unbroken wide shot and you see the body language. It's a cinematic exhale. That's why we have punctuation. Peak experience only exists in relation to something that is not. It's all context." "I don't believe in censorship in any form." “Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time...

Talking Strange Days at The After Movie Diner

Are reading my convoluted thoughts on film and popular culture not enough? Then you're in luck. Jon Cross was kind enough to invite me onto his fabulous podcast The After Movie Diner (a website I've been known to write for now and again). Besides sounding like a sedated thirteen year old boy, I think I acquitted okay here. I don't know if deliberate, contemplative talkers like myself make the best podcast guests, but I know that I had a blast and would love to do it again. So, hop on over to the Diner and listen to Jon and I dissect Kathryn Bigelow's 1995 neo-noir sci-fi thriller Strange Day s. I've been on a massive Bigelow kick lately, revisiting her films when I can. Hopefully I'll write about her work here or at the Diner soon. This film might well be my favorite of hers, although it's nearly impossible to choose between this, Near Dark , Blue Steel , and Point Break . Nevertheless, I love  Strange Days enormously. It always hold up to repeat viewi...