Cynematik on IndieWIRE

David Hudson over at GreenCineDaily pointed me to the terrific interviews over on IndieWIRE. They've contacted all of the Sundance directors via email and gave them a series of questions. Some of the responses are quite intriguing. FLANNEL PAJAMAS director Jeff Lipsky gave a detailed interview. According to IndieWIRE, Lipsky says, "The four filmmakers who have most influenced me are John Cassavetes (for whom I worked for five years and was a friend for eighteen), Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen, and Mike Leigh. These four men have consistently demonstrated a love for language, a propensity for exploring the human condition as it can be and is experienced almost anywhere in the world, and are the only filmmakers who conjure up and are inspired by multi-dimensional female characters, strong women, fragile women, fearless women, real women." No wonder I like this guy.

COME EARLY MORNING director Joey Lauren Adams says her greatest influences include, "Bruce Beresford's TENDER MERCIES was the template for the film. I showed it to everyone involved. I've always admired its achievement in telling a story in the most simple and honest way. The combination of Horton Foote's writing, the acting, the production design, the cinematography, the music and the sound design all lend to this. Also, URBAN COWBOY had a huge influence. It seemed to me the actors were never commenting on the people they were portraying, instead, they were just being. It was so important that the film not be a caricature of Southern culture, but instead an honest view of very real people and places."

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