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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Brian Grady

National City, California
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Brian Grady is a father, high school teacher, and writer.

» Class Dismissed: Laurent Cantet and François Bégaudeau's The Class (2008) (BLFJ 69 – August 2010)

"While a teen's emotional landscape can indeed defy reason, the filmmakers insist that a teenager's need to attack supersedes any moral dilemma, even if their behavior results in the expulsion of one of their peers."

» "We're Engaged to Be Engaged": The Paranormal Activity of Trauma and Relationship (BLFJ 67 – February 2010)

"The camera has a motor, you just turn it on and walk away" – Andy Warhol

» Crack Christ: The Excess and the Ecstasy of Bad Lieutenant for you is paid in troubles." (BLFJ 53 – August 2006)

"Lord, my Lord! How true it is that whoever work for you is paid in troubles."

» Open Water, Open Woods: The Camera as Conflict in Horror Films (BLFJ 46 – November 2004)

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