Shock Corridor

I was going to write a blog post about Spike Jonze's new film 'her' and I had tonnes of clever stuff lined up about relationships, and the future, and technology, and about being a human being, and...y'know, life. Then I remembered, he'd already done it himself in January in the old Sight and Sound : 'I was thinking about how I interact with technology every day, how much everybody I know does, and what that means.... There is a distancing to relationships today, and it's obviously a big part of the movie, but it's not necessarily just technology, it's also the tempo at which we live our lives, and the amount of information and communication that come at us and that we're expected to react to. It's easy to say technology connects us and it's easy to say that it doesn't. There's no black and white, the conversation is more complicated, and it's in those grey areas that it's interesting and real. I tried to make a mo...

Charlie "I've written myself into my screenplay." Donald "That's kinda weird, huh?" The above quote from Adaptation (2002) sprang to mind this week when I noticed that I seem to have somehow started following my own blog. So on the back of that, I decide to write about a unique voice in contemporary cinema; a rare beast, a screenwriter autuer. Few writers (I say few but I can only think of one and it's him, and I just like to be on the safe side, and am more than willing to bow to anyone's superior knowledge) are bestowed with the title autuer. Despite the the fact that that the term translates as author, that high regard is reserved for the directors of film, perhaps not surprising really given the visual nature of the medium. Kaufman has had his screenplays brought to the screen by a diverse range of directors (Michel Gondry, George Clooney, Spike Jonze and Kaufman himself) the worlds and the characters that inhabit them main...