Saturday, August 27, 2005

Today has been movie day for me.

I rented Charles Kiselyak's "A Constant Forge--The
Life and Art of John Cassavetes" it is a detailed
journey through the career of one of film's greatest
pioneers and iconoclasts. Great candid interviews
with Cassavetes' collaborators and friends, archival
footage, and the director's own words, the film paints
a revealing portrait of a man whose fierce love,
courage, and dedication changed me and the face of
cinema.

Lelia Goldoni has to be one of the most beautiful
women ever. She was in John Cassavetes' "Shadows."
I guess I have always had a crush on her as I have
had on Gena Rowlands.

One Blonde and one Brunette.

I'm so split.

I also rented, "Faces" again for the Bonus Disc and
the documentary, "Cinéastes de notre temps" as I
have always wanted to see Cassavetes' house/film
factory.

Funny that I say Factory, because I also rented
"Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture." The best
thing in that was seeing Mary Warnov describe
Warhol's Screentest technique. Fantastic!

I've been writing a screenplay that so far I am
enjoying. It's a horror film that I want to shoot
very soon.

It would be very different than any horror film
I know, because it would be very much a personal
vision. Dream like and very disturbing, but very
much contemporary. Certainly it will deal with
what I am going through in my life.

The writing has been very easy, it seems to
want to be told. I picked up one of my cameras
to try an experiment that I think I will use in
the movie.

Watching it again as I digitized it into my
Power Book with some filters added, it looks
pretty good.

I hope to be shooting very soon, so if you want
to audition, let me know!