Movie City Indie Archive for April, 2017
Jonathan Demme in the Modern World: On MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004)
Unlike his actors, Demme saw John Frankenheimer’s film on its first release. “I saw the original when I was a teenager,” he tells me. “I was an avid moviegoer, I saw everything,” he says, hardly taking a breath.
DEMME: Everything, everything. I was really hooked on movies at a very young age. The Manchurian Candidate, along with Seven Days in May, Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove [were] this quartet of anarchistic black-and-white American movies, each of which did things that you just didn’t do in American movies, especially in the realm of irreverence toward politics and government institutions and the Army. I was what, 16, it was shocking, it was thrilling and interestingly, it predated my exposure to the French New Wave, so in away, this was the American, a certain kind of new wave in American movies. So Manchurian Candidate was a trailblazer, it was a shocker, it was a great picture and it altered the way I thought about movies! [Demme caps the rush of words with a pleased whooshing sound.]
Jonathan Demme And Paul Thomas Anderson In Conversation (2015) (26’46”)
Trailering The Restoration Of Ophuls’ MEMORY OF JUSTICE (1’00”)
Terrence Malick, Man In The Hat… But Not Always
Now that Terrence Malick has shown his face and sounded his voice in public spaces for Song To Song and Voyage of Time, how many clandestine cameos have been hiding in plain sight?
The Complete Cast Of “Twin Peaks,” Season Three
Debuted 27 years ago today. Returns a mere six weeks from now…