Bright Lights Film Journal :: D.J.M. Saunders

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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D.J.M. Saunders

Cardiff, Wales, UK
davejmsaunders@ntlworld.com

D. J. M. Saunders paints nudes and abstracts and writes "strange, awkward" poetry. Under the pseudonym Genji he recently illustrated language-starter storybooks for ESL students.

» Young Ones and Swan Songs: Luis Bunuel in Mexico, Bela Tarr in Edinburgh (BLFJ 73 - August 2011)

"Attempts to create interesting projects of any sort despite our limitations can sometimes touch us more deeply than slick illusions that – literally by design – hide a lot of skill and effort, yet, in so doing, also hide something of the crazy courage it takes just to be human."

» Helping Humanity: We All Get Stressed Out (BLFJ 72 - May 2011)

But have you stopped behaving strangely?

» A Funny Valentine to Crime: Where Jim Fits a Bill or Two (BLFJ 71 - February 2011)

And Claude Rains.

» That's My Girl! Well, actually, she's not. (BLFJ 70 - November 2010)

But we love each other anyway

» Black and White Orpheus: An Audio Visual Species (BLFJ 69 - August 2010)

That still finds musicians easier to rob

» Ossessione: Shabby Little Shocker? (BLFJ 68 - May 2010)

Or Advanced Guide to Cinematic Survival?

» Jean Renoir's Toni: Unreal and True (BLFJ 67 - February 2010)

And staying forever young