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My Son My Son What Have Ye Done (2009)

My Son My Son What Have Ye Done (2009) is based loosely on the actual story of a disturbed San Diego man though this fact is only a rough sketch for director and co-writer Werner Herzog who quickly resorts to improvisation, spontaneity, and wackiness to get inside the head of the main character. What starts like a story on the five o’clock news and perhaps the outline for a serious character study, soon becomes a quirky, perhaps myopic portrait of madness personified. Continue reading

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Female Directors Redux

As with any list of who’s who and what is what, I am certain I have left other notable female filmmakers out of this article. In part I think it is vastly important to recognize that for every female director working today there are most likely dozens if not hundreds who are struggling to find their way to success in Hollywood Land – a place that for all intent and purpose is a predominantly male environment. This is not to say that statistically speaking, it is any easier for novice men than it is for novice women to break into the business. The biz’ is, as one might expect, a mountain and most of us filmmakers are scampering for adequate hiking boots. Continue reading

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