Bright Lights Film Journal

From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal

Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.

"I dare anyone to squeeze between two covers a more varied, useful and flat out entertaining sampling of the personalities that make the seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com

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A. Jay Adler

New York, NY, USA

A. Jay Adler, a New Yorker always, did his graduate work at Columbia University and is professor of English at Los Angeles Southwest College. His poetry has appeared in Pebble Lake Review, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Eclipse, and Poetrybay. He has published reference essays on the poetry of Carolyn Kizer and Paul Zimmer, and his screenplay What We Were Thinking Of won second prize at the 1999 Maui Writers Conference Screenwriting Competition. He was also the recipient of a 2002 residency grant in poetry from the Vermont Studio Center. Adler's latest work is the book-length essay Left Bereft: September 11, 2001 and the Politics of the Moral Imagination.

» Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Jean Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows (BLFJ 53 – August 2006)

"Whether alone or with others, you live with yourself."

» A History of Violence: A Minimum of Thought (BLFJ 51 – February 2006)

"A whole load of 'Aw' with not a lot of 'shucks,' updated only by a little cunnilingus."

» The Disturbance of the Real: Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen (BLFJ 49 – August 2005)

How real is the director's much-vaunted "multilayered depiction of reality"?

» The Altered State of War: Heaven, Hell, and the Structure of the Combat Film (BLFJ 45 – August 2004)

"The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir."

» Together Again for the First Time: Movies holding mirrors up to movies (BLFJ 40 – May 2003)

Imitation: great for flattery, bad for art