Leaving Hollywood, Headed South, Bound for Indie
di Dennis Lim The New York Times
MOST movies set out to tell a story. Lance Hammer was after something more amorphous. He wanted to depict a tone, an atmosphere, how a place feels and how that affects the people who live there.
A native Californian, Mr. Hammer was driving through Tennessee one winter about 10 years ago, he said, kicking around ideas for a film. Recalling the oft-repeated assertion that the lobby of Memphis’s Peabody Hotel is the northernmost point of the Mississippi Delta, he decided to head south to see the heart of that fabled alluvial plain. [...]
di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (7578 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 28 Settembre 2008