I actually saw Stephanie Daley in theatres (shoutout to Village East Cinema) and I remember it really impacted me. I was recommending it to people after Roe v Wade was overturned.
I watched Normal Adolescent Behavior last year and I'm so sorry about your traumatic experience, because I thought it was a really honest look at both teenage relationships and polyamorous relationships. The characters and emotions felt real and relatable, and I wish more movies tackled teenage romance that way instead of just relying on silly tropes.
Both movies deserved so much more attention.
I really enjoyed reading that interview, enjoy your time off!
I enjoyed reading your interview, To have it with a long-time and good friend put it above the usual water mark, and made it much more indepth, honest and real. I was fascinated when I heard you say "...In an attempt to name it— the actual process of something coming alive on the page, in the moment it is happening—I could only ever describe it as a ghost-like presence that was, sort of, walking alongside me, or joining me. " For me, it feels like the opposite: like I'm the ghost walking beside my characters. I write Historical Fiction (old genre title)/ Creative Nonfiction (new genre title) about my ancestors. A friend suggested it was more like Narrative Nonfiction, but that seems to me to be more of a Memoir. I put emotions, daily activities, words to my ancestors, to flesh them out in ways that would never happen if I wrote strictly Nonfiction. Because my ancestors couldn't write, or if they could, all we have of them are signatures on documents. If we are to ever know who they might have been, we have to make up stuff. Mind you, it's historically and culturally accurate stuff for their time, but still it's made up. Creative. As I write, it is I who feel like the ghost, walkikng beside them, seeing what they see, their feelings and replies, their actions. I am the ghost.
I do wish your directorial debut in Paint It Black hadn't met such an untimely end, in that you were so ahead of your time. I'm sorry it was sold, so that it cannot rise from its sleep to be debuted today, in the era in which it perhaps more belongs. The outlook would be so much different! I will look for it on Lifetime, trying to keep in mind how it's changed from what you envisioned.. I'm very sorry about that. Perhaps it's time to bring Maude and her victims to life on the screen?
I actually saw Stephanie Daley in theatres (shoutout to Village East Cinema) and I remember it really impacted me. I was recommending it to people after Roe v Wade was overturned.
I watched Normal Adolescent Behavior last year and I'm so sorry about your traumatic experience, because I thought it was a really honest look at both teenage relationships and polyamorous relationships. The characters and emotions felt real and relatable, and I wish more movies tackled teenage romance that way instead of just relying on silly tropes.
Both movies deserved so much more attention.
I really enjoyed reading that interview, enjoy your time off!
I enjoyed reading your interview, To have it with a long-time and good friend put it above the usual water mark, and made it much more indepth, honest and real. I was fascinated when I heard you say "...In an attempt to name it— the actual process of something coming alive on the page, in the moment it is happening—I could only ever describe it as a ghost-like presence that was, sort of, walking alongside me, or joining me. " For me, it feels like the opposite: like I'm the ghost walking beside my characters. I write Historical Fiction (old genre title)/ Creative Nonfiction (new genre title) about my ancestors. A friend suggested it was more like Narrative Nonfiction, but that seems to me to be more of a Memoir. I put emotions, daily activities, words to my ancestors, to flesh them out in ways that would never happen if I wrote strictly Nonfiction. Because my ancestors couldn't write, or if they could, all we have of them are signatures on documents. If we are to ever know who they might have been, we have to make up stuff. Mind you, it's historically and culturally accurate stuff for their time, but still it's made up. Creative. As I write, it is I who feel like the ghost, walkikng beside them, seeing what they see, their feelings and replies, their actions. I am the ghost.
I do wish your directorial debut in Paint It Black hadn't met such an untimely end, in that you were so ahead of your time. I'm sorry it was sold, so that it cannot rise from its sleep to be debuted today, in the era in which it perhaps more belongs. The outlook would be so much different! I will look for it on Lifetime, trying to keep in mind how it's changed from what you envisioned.. I'm very sorry about that. Perhaps it's time to bring Maude and her victims to life on the screen?
.... you know, when you're done with your book. :-)