[A Pleasurable Headache] choose your words as if someone will remember them
It’s not a huge edition this week as I’m prepping to drive down south for a family gathering. North Devon in December, of all places.
Time off at the day job will give me enough space to hopefully pull together something more substantial for the next edition (and the last of 2022).
Links
I’ll kick things off with two interviews.
The Thinker: FFC Interviews Rian Johnson
https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/11/rian-johnson-interview.html
Walter Chaw interviews Rian Johnson. They mostly talk about the forthcoming (at least for those of us who didn’t get to enjoy the short cinematic run) movie Glass Onion.
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The Neon Splatter Interview: Guillaume Pierret
https://www.neonsplatter.com/editorials/the-neon-splatter-interview-guillaume-pierret
Secondly, we have an interview with the director of the excellent Lost Bullet 2. The film, and the original, are both on Netflix. If you are even halfway into action movies give yourself a gift and watch both movies as soon as you can. They feature some truly amazing fight sequences (including a scene in a police station which the sequel riffs on) and some phenomenal driving setpieces and stuntwork. I cannot wait for the trilogy closer in 2024.
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My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I’m a writer
Isabel Kaplan on perhaps the least supportive and shittiest boyfriend of all time.
“We had just moved in together for the first time, in Paris, when he confessed that my keeping a journal made him uncomfortable. People in relationships make all sorts of off-the-cuff comments, and they don’t mean anything, he explained. It made him nervous to think of me remembering or writing down things he said. He joked that if I wrote about him, it would be the end.
He didn’t suggest that I give up writing. He purported to support my ambitions, and I tried to come up with justifications for keeping a private journal. I didn’t counter that maybe he should choose his words as if I’d remember them.”
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Right, I’m off to pack for a trip that will already be over by the time you read this. See you in two!