
By DP30 david@thehotbuttonl.com
DP/30: Natural Selection, writer/director Robbie Pickering, actor Rachel Harris
A rollicking interview… these two are very funny together.
A rollicking interview… these two are very funny together.
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“This is momentous. I think it is the true beginning of the crumble of the patriarchy. We’ve been living under it for centuries, and I don’t think this would’ve been possible in any earlier period in history. I think all of the baby steps that we’ve taken toward getting more women in positions of power — cinematographers that are women, and actresses who develop their own projects, and studio heads that are women — I mean, it was always one at a time, but it’s been slowly building. I think what’s happened now, it’s like, “Okay, the jig’s up, folks. You’re not going to get away with it. I’m not going to protect you if you treat me badly or disrespectfully.” We now have a woman cinematographer nominated for an Oscar, finally, in 2018. Finally. We’ve had a woman director win an Oscar. So it’s baby steps, but now I think it’s going to change drastically. Plus, I mean, look at Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman was a great movie. It was beautiful and it made a lot of money, which is what talks, of course, in this industry. So I think we’ll be seeing more women in positions of power.”
~ Ellen Burstyn
“I read an amazing thing online recently, from the poet e. e. cummings. I really like him as a poet and there was this great quote at the top of the page: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” That’s given me a lot of inspiration, those words and those ideas… Because we are constantly told to not be what we actually, in fact, naturally are.”
~ Andrew Garfield
I was wondering what happened to this film. Didn’t hear anything about since Ebertfest…hopefully will see it soon.
Fun interview, they sound very much like a couple bickering…it’s good stuff.
Funnily enough, according to The Wrap, I was one of the first people to praise this movie.
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/good-morning-austin-march-16-sxsws-big-winner-25541
But I’m fairly sure David is the first person to give it the video love it deserves.
50 minutes – longest dp/30 yet
Robbie Pickering needs to act in sitcoms …very funny guy. he should do acting instead of directing .. it’ll make him richer probably and then he can use that tv money to direct movies. see problem solved for him.
i want another dp/30 with him this year.
my favorite part is “you talk”
i give this 8/10 . would have been higher if at any point DP spent 2 minutes explaining what the movie was about without spoilers.
I watched it entirely because of Ms. Harris, the (hot) mom from the Wimpy Kid movies. Parent service at its best!
( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentService )
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I was lucky enough to catch Robbie along with Rachel and Matt O’Leary on the day the film premiered last year at SXSW: http://www.tpr.org/news/2011/03/news1103222.html
A fun interview (17 min.) at the link. I second the cheers for interview chemistry between director and stars!