The Hurt Locker

[nic]

thehurtlocker-movie.com/


Kathyrn Bigelow has been one of my favourite working directors ever since I saw Near Dark and Strange Days. Her new picture has been critically hailed in all corners of the country (and lambasted as potential propaganda by a Brit), and looks to be damn good in my not so humble opinion.


Keep an eye out for it in your neck of the woods!

[bixaorellana]

It sounds harrowingly suspenseful!

I never heard of Kathryn Bigelow before. Her list of credits is intriguingly varied. I will definitely be looking out for her in the future.

[nic]

You can read an article about her over at The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/movies/21darg.html

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Kathryn Bigelow has always seemed to me to be the female director whose films seem the most like they were not made by a woman. Meanwhile, the reverse is not at all true -- there are a lot of male directors whose films could easily be mistaken for the sensibility of a woman. Ang Lee is the first name that pops into my mind.

[nic]

I can definitely agree with that sentiment, K2. The first two names that come to my mind would be the oft-admired Hayao Miyazaki and Pedro Almodovar.

[Jazz]

For me, Leni Riefenstahl's works have a strong male sensibility.

[nic]

Good interview on some of the psychology behind The Hurt Locker from the scriptwriter.

www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/07/inside-the-hurt-locker.html

[nic]

In case anybody is still interested, Jeremy Renner is now on my short list for Best Actor -- the whole film deserves several nods, too.

Here's another interview Ms. Bigelow did with Vanity Fair.

www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2009/07/qa-filming-a-war-of-bombs-in-the-hurt-locker.html