I’ll be interviewing Todd Field, director of In the Bedroom and Little Children, this afternoon (right before I head off to the screening of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men). You may have seen his work… and you may have seen him, too. He played the jazz pianist in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
If you’re interested in Field’s work and have any questions for him, let me know!
Here’s an interesting Washington Post article/interview that reveals some intriguing details about his past, his perspectives, and his childhood in a Lutheran household. That’ll get you thinking…
I can’t wait to watch Little Children! After watching In The Bedroom I would have been ready to watch Todd Field film paint drying! Not simply because I think the film itself is one of the greatest ever made (although heck, that’s usually a good enough reason) to make you want to see a director’s next film) but moreso for what it says about Todd Field as a complete filmmaker. The subtlety and confidence with which he puts the film together, the reliance he places upon actions rather than words. His understanding of emotional restraint blew me away and I don’t think it’s unfair at all to compare it to such masterworks as Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Ophuls’ Reckless Moment, because there are certainly almost no filmmakers working today who’ve demonstrated as complex an understanding as Field shows in this film. Despite having seen plenty of demented and twisted things put on film before: torture, death, rape, no other film has ever come close to making me feel as viscerally sick as I felt watching the lives of Matt & Ruth fall apart. There are so many questions I would love to ask Field, hope your interview is able to shine more light on the brilliance of this young filmmaker Jeffrey.
Ask him how it felt for so many critics (and audiences) to misread In The Bedroom as a kind of apologetic for vigilantism.
And tell him there’s plenty of us out here in the heartland who’re anxious to see his movie— where is it???
I’m probably too late with this, but I’d be interested if Ingmar Bergman is a big influence. I see some similarities in their cinema and their backgrounds.
“Ok, I am “only” a physician who has had 10 years of higher education…”
There’s something very irksome about this line.restart4
Levi! Don’t you know better than to use a “five-dollar” word like “irksome”? You might offend readers who don’t understand that intricate of a vocabulary! 😉
(oh darn, now I’m doing it! I guess my intellect ran away with me again!)
For reference, Jeff, I think the negative commenter is elaborating upon Miller’s alleged superfluous use of complicated words, not the caliber of your book. 🙂
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Films and movies have already viewed as postmodern product, but the author held a relatively narrow view towards film.
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I’d wager that this one is comment spam.