B O N D P H O N E.
Words and pictures by Chris Lamb.

David Mamet's ON DIRECTING ruins everything. All at once brilliant and glaringly obvious, Mamet's lectures at Columbia University render the pages of plot points and desperate stabs at a proper beginning obsolete and wrong. The oh-so-cute twists, the dialog/visual contrasts that would make me the most-cleverest ever are rendered sloppy and amatuer, an insult to me and and the audience moreso. The nattery beginning gets trimmed to the bare bones, finally finding the quiet despair it just missed before. It's more than a little humbling how fast brillance turns to so much masturbation when you resolve to tell the story.

Pouring rain and ten year old scotch, Portishead and low lights. Back to it.

posted by chris  # 9:02 AM