

Rashomon is the very first example of a movie telling a story from several different perspectives, and it still remains one of the most influential of them all. He's given audiences a glimpse of a filmmaker's childhood as a filmmaker - a sort of master-class in how heart affects art. Rashomon (1950) Stream on HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, Plex, & Kanopy. And that put him in excellent company, with the likes of François Truffaut and The 400 Blows, Spike Lee and Crooklyn, Alfonso Cuarón and Roma, Greta Gerwig and Lady Bird.īut Spielberg, whose work has made him arguably the most popular filmmaker ever - his movies having out-earned those of all other directors at the box office - has made The Fabelmans more than just a sentimental self-portrait. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The first, 'Fiction,' is about a college creative writing student (Selma Blair) whose boyfriend (Leo Fitzpatrick) has cerebral palsy. It features original music by Belle & Sebastian, later compiled on the album Storytelling.

I was a fearful kid." More than a sentimental self-portraitĭecades ago, Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, who'd just centered his movie 8 ½ on a character who was a director much like himself, said that "all art is autobiographical," adding playfully, "the pearl is the oyster's autobiography."Ī few years later, Fellini released another pearl: Amarcord, about his own youth. Storytelling is a 2001 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz. This is also a mistake I made in one of my first short films where I was worried that the audience wouldnt feel the way I wanted them to, so the middle of the. "I was afraid of small places and I still am today. To accept that you dont need artificial naturalism to have an emotional connection to characters or a movie. For Anderson, its part of an artistic project of using self-aware storytelling to serve emotional ends. "I was afraid of the dark," says the man who created Jaws, and who plunged Indy into a snake-pit. It has a pointsomething it is delivering, something it is serving. "It looked like arms and long fingers and long fingernails," he recalls on Fresh Air, "and later, as an adult, when I wrote Poltergeist, I created a tree out the window that actually comes to life and grabs a kid and starts to suck him into one of its knotholes."
