Miranda July is one of my favorite artists in the world today. I say 'artist' because in addition to her most well-known work, the film "Me And You And Everyone We Know"*--which she wrote, directed and acted in--she is also a great writer of short stories and a brave-ass performance artist who's done her shit at the fucking Guggenheim.
She has a new film premiering in DC this Friday. It's called "The Future" and though it features a talking cat narrator and an anthropomorphized moon, it looks like it'll be fantastic, at least to me it does--it's getting a fair amount of Twitter hate right now, but who cares about that, really? Anyway, I'm going to see it with a friend on Sunday, and in my excitement I've been relentlessly watching Miranda July clips on youtube, which I will now share with you.
Here is the trailer for the film...
followed by an awesome out-take therefrom about how to be creative...
and also a nice short film she made back in 2005 with John C Reilly, Mike White, and a fellow named Chuy Chavez. It's called "Are You The Favorite Person Of Anybody?"
*MaYaEWK ranks EASILY amongst my top-5 favorite films of all time. SEE IT if you haven't. It's perfectly lovely.
2 comments:
I distinctively remember watching "You, Me and Everyone We Know" with you and experiencing media with you is always an experience unto itself.
Have you seen Beginners yet? Not off topic because MJ's husband wrote and directed and it could theoretically be seen as their love story. Rather fantastic and an excellent late-coming-out story.
Either way, good taste as always, ml.
I'll have to check out Beginners. I guess I've become a bit out of touch with cinema of late, only keeping up with a select few of my favorites and kind of neglecting the unfamiliar in favor of other, non-film-based artsy shit. I trust you've seen Tree of Life, though, yea? That's really all I've seen all summer long, and I loved it. Did you love it?
Anyway, thanks, Whit. Beginners is next on my list. Love always.
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