Near the end of the millennium, some five years after leaving Paris, approaching the end of my time in graduate school, driving on the Cross Bronx Expressway with my fiancée and my uncle Jimmy, headed into the Bronx to meet part of my father’s family, I listened as…
Read MoreI received this message today. It was sent to the email address form on my web site. I want to share it with you. I rarely get a compliment that means as much to me personally as this one does.
Read MoreAt a major cultural institution in New York City, I once served on a committee that had been tasked with making recommendations as to what kind of seating should be installed in new screening rooms they were planning to build.
Read MoreNear the end of a long and painful-to-read series of reports on his eight years at the hospital they showed that during the final weeks of his life, preceding when he was struck by a train, the chief psychiatrist of the hospital had denied a staff recommendation that Richard be among the next group of patients to receive a lobotomy.
Read MoreBrady writes of asking my father, more than forty years later, at lunch at the Yale Club, about the circumstances of the accident the night before he was to leave for the place that in the title Brady has described as “the scariest place in the world.”
Read MoreRecently, when I was texting back and forth with my daughter about how we should “do a zoom soon,” what came to my mind was the scene of calling home in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 (1968).
Read MoreAt a major cultural institution in New York City, I once served on a committee that had been tasked with making recommendations as to what kind of seating should be installed in new screening rooms they were planning to build.
Read MoreI reached out to the legendary film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and asked him if he would watch V13. I have never previously had any contact with Jonathan Rosenbaum but I did this at the suggestion of a friend of the film who happens to be a distinguished European producer.
Read MoreIn the spring of 1986, I took a trip from Paris to London, crossing the channel by ferry, to visit my friend John Kimber. He has since disappeared.
Read MoreThinking about finding an audience for the film, I remembered long ago hearing about a prop George Lucas always used when he was raising money for STAR WARS. It was a map of the United States with pins stuck in it. He would place it behind him when he spoke to his potential investors.
Read MoreWith the actors strike having ended, I can finally take care of the Additional Dialogue Recording (ADR) that was holding us back from completing V13.
Read MoreBetty Milan has published a book with the title “Adieu Lacan,” named after the film I made based on two of her works that are contained in it. I wrote the postface to one of the works in the book.
Read MoreExciting news to share: For those of you who live outside the English-speaking world and have wanted to see ADIEU LACAN, it is now possible. Starting immediately, here on my website you will find the following link to
Read MoreRichard Hamon has made two documentaries that should be of particular interest to anyone who, like myself, has a passion for American culture: 2004 Howard Fast, Histoire d’un Rouge (Howard Fast, the Story of a Red)
Read MoreRichard Hamon a réalisé deux films documentaires qui devraient être particulièrement intéressants pour qui a, comme moi, une passion pour la culture américaine: Howard Fast, Histoire d’un Rouge, réalisé en 2004 et
Read MoreAntu Yacob on playing Gloria in ADIEU LACAN
Read MoreDavid Patrick Kelly speaks about playing Jacques Lacan in ADIEU LACAN
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