it seems like she's hooked in with Benson/Moorhead and possibly the Coatwolf people now which is neat to me
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 July 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
and as others mentioned I can't recommend Girlfriend Experience s1, which she co-wrote/directed with Lodge Kerrigan, highly enough. (fair warning that Carruth briefly cameos as...a dead-eyed psychotic sex pest :/)
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 July 2020 11:54 (three years ago) link
Go with what you know.
Anyway all these years I've heard 'these films are incredible, you've got to see them' and thought "Okay one day" but I did hear a very indirect rumor a couple of years ago via a Twitter friend that he was at the least pretty shitty and thought "Hm, maybe not." After all these past few days I shrugged and finally just read the Wikipedia summaries and hopefully I won't think of the guy much again. Life's too short.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
I screened Upstream Color to/with different friends and the reactions were always delightful. no ugliness on Carruth's part will diminish the specialness of those experiences. but as brad said the nature of the situation and the fact that the movie is almost entirely an intimate Carruth/Seimetz two-hander makes a rewatch very difficult to imagine. and certainly I would never again be an evangelist for it as I was then even if I'm more flexible on the art/artist issue than some/most.
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
yes it's truly an amazing film. it's too bad it's tainted now due to his fucking shitty behaviour.
― akm, Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
Anyway
Shane Carruth, the director of independent films “Upstream Color” and “Primer,” was arrested last week at the home of his ex-girlfriend on allegations of domestic assault. https://t.co/6kCVq1sRgd pic.twitter.com/oFfT6TF2rH— Variety (@Variety) January 19, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
Ugh!! This guy is SO awful — makes me wonder how he made it as far as he did.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 20 January 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
being awful probably helped 🤮
― cowboy bopeep (cat), Thursday, 20 January 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
So unusual for awful people to be successful in film.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 January 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
valuable insight jimbeaux
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 20 January 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
xp you have a pretty rangey definition of “successful in film”
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 20 January 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
It doesn't ALWAYS hold true, but given this and several other recently documented cases, there's definitely reason to be, shall we say, hesitant about men whose art involves 'the brutal exploitation and torture of a woman', as Forks put it way upthread long before anyone suspected a thing about him. Waving those red flags where everyone can see 'em
― imago, Thursday, 20 January 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
xp Yeah, I stretched it for purposes of the joke, but otoh Primer is still pretty fucking good.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 January 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link