Jul 29, 2016
Movie Meltdown - Episode 358
This week we are coming to you
"live" from the Flyover Film Festival where we talk with
actor Nick Offerman and director Laura
Dunn about the choices that helped guide them through
their careers as well as creating and promoting the documentary -
The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry.
Not only will we hear about Laura's
approach to documentary film-making, but we'll also hear how she
came to work with an amazing team including Nick as a co-producer
and executive producers Terrance Malick and Robert Redford. As well
as collaborating with cinematographer Lee Daniel (Boyhood, Dazed
and Confused, Before Sunrise, Slacker).
And while we discover that
film-making (and life) may just be the the art of endurance, we
also discuss... raising a family, Chicago, The Unsettling of
America, art and wood and trees, Christian Bale, he's spitting at
me... staring daggers at me... and I manage to keep my feet, Axe
Cop, I like to interview people, a narcissistic culture, hey... you
know what - orange and purple come here, Good Clean Fun,Yale, edit
it like a piece of music, those perfect little green lawns, my gut
would never let me, acrimonious, I'll come dig trenches, the state
of Austin, building scenery, the question of truth, you had this
plan... it never works out that way, I don't sleep much, a piece of
the conversation, nature is a character itself, I'm chasing the
ideas, bringing her her slippers and pipe at the end of the day, a
more groovy version of the way Mike Leigh makes films, he
disregards screens, we talked about fishing... and Pittsburgh,
social justice issues, film as a mirror, Tugg, there's no
accounting for taste, it's own blue collar attitude, one douche
flexing and staring at you, Leo Burmester, Knight of Cups, a labor
strike broke out, the Rodney King tapes, I'm trying to make you see
what I see, the natural world, I care about something... and I want
to make a film that makes you care about something, hammered
away,Will and Grace, Jesse Eisenberg, The Unforeseen, they call it
the Death Star, making yourself vulnerable as the interviewer,
weird in a wonderful way, I was a good sword fighter, a very slowly
rolling snowball, I did two back flips and said yes please, Michael
Keaton, I feel a lot of things before I think them, more messy
expensive and takes longer, and maybe the coolest woman...
ever.
"...I'm much messier... I really
like getting lost and letting the material get me completely turned
around and find my way out. I feel like it's the most honest way to
be a documentary filmmaker."
For more on the documentary "The Seer", go to: http://www.theseerfilm.com/
For more on the Flyover Film Festival, go to: http://www.louisvillefilmsociety.org/