In a previous post I mentioned other subjects I considered including in A Life’s Work. One of them was Michael Apted, the director of the Up films. The reasons I gave in that post for not pursuing him were I thought … Continued
Before I shot a second of A Life’s Work, I grappled with the documentary dilemma. How do you end a film that doesn’t have an ending? (How do the Maysles end Grey Gardens? They show us a looming change of season.) I … Continued
When I first had the idea for A Life’s Work, I was considering a number of subjects/projects. Here are some of them. 10,000 Year Clock – “A monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock as an icon to long-term thinking” to … Continued
Because I have lists on the brain, here’s another: films that have had a huge impact on me in general, and on A Life’s Work in particular. Grey Gardens The first time I saw the Maysles’ Grey Gardens it made … Continued