Bright Lights Film Journal :: Matthew Sorrento

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."
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Matthew Sorrento

Collingswood, NJ, USA
film@identitytheory.com; msorrento@camdencc.edu

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Matthew Sorrento teaches film studies and writing at Camden County College in Blackwood, NJ and lectures on film at Rutgers University in Camden. He has regularly contributed to Film Threat and Identity Theory, where he serves as film editor, and his work has appeared in Senses of Cinema and Pop Matters. His first book, on contemporary genre cinema, will be published by McFarland in 2011.

» Of Time and Place: An Interview with Writer Jon Raymond on Meek's Cutoff and HBO's Mildred Pierce (BLFJ 72 – May 2011)

"In Meek's Cutoff — about a community making decisions based on limited information, confronting their own attitudes toward the unknown — it seemed appropriate that the movie would end on a moment of unknowing, incompletion."

» Loving the Bad: An Interview with Frankie Latina and Sasha Grey on Modus Operandi (BLFJ 71 – February 2011)

"Any director who shoots a grindhouse film without exquisite, triumphant, dangerous, and naked women is doing a disservice to the genre and should move into a different field."

» Catching It All in Stride: An Interview with Ariel and Nev Schulman on Catfish (BLFJ 70 – November 2010)

"We just followed the leads."

» Family Remains: An Interview with Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler on Documenting Fishbone in Everyday Sunshine (BLFJ 69 – August 2010)

"Being middle-age rock and rollers, just trying to pay the bills, isn't an easy lifestyle."

» Film Noir: The Encyclopedia, (BLFJ 69 – August 2010)

4th edition; edited by Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward, James Ursini, and Robert Porfirio

» A Writer's Evolution: An Interview with Eddie Muller (BLFJ 68 – May 2010)

"[My film] is stylized and theatrical because the story is so telescoped – we have a life-and-death outcome played out over 20 actual minutes."

» Writing (and Filming) the Memories: An Interview with Guillermo Arriaga on The Burning Plain (BLFJ 67 – February 2010)

"Arriaga's use of eroticism and semi-incest between respective children of the two illicit lovers is more than a pastiche; it's an organic outgrowth from an idea."

» Pinned on Both Sides: No Escape for Paul Muni's Fugitive (BLFJ 67 – February 2010)

"The film suggests the denial of the common worker, whose service to industry is only as worthy as his social status."

» Bright Lights, Big Cine: An Interview with Gary Morris (BLFJ 67 – February 2010)

On Bright Lights, online film writing, and the collection he recently edited, Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran

» Book Review: Harlan Ellison's Watching (BLFJ 61 – August 2008)

» Object in Mirror May Be Closer Than It Appears: Stuart Gordon Talks about Horror, the Absurd, and Stuck (BLFJ 61 – August 2008)

"These two people are stuck in life."

» The Devil Wears a Fatsuit: John Travolta in Hairspray (BLFJ 58 – August 2008)

"Even if the new Hairspray seems a welcome return to camp for Travolta, his mock-seriousness is as frozen as ever."