Episode #48 - Alex Ross Perry (Husbands and Wives)

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"When you aren't planning where you are going, you end up somewhere peculiar."

When most directors talk about the films that influence their work, they might mention one of two obvious citations. For writer-director Alex Ross Perry, there are literally hundreds that can range all over the history of movies. The director of Impolex, The Color Wheel, and his audacious new film, Listen Up Philip, comes on the show to discuss his work ethic, his rounds on the repertory scene, and his breakthrough onto the growing microbudget cinema. Alex talks about the making of his three features and their roles in forming an alternative to mainstream independent cinema, and how breaking traditional models has led him to the most fruitful of territory. Finally, Alex discusses one of the major influences on Listen Up Philip—Woody Allen's anti-Woody Allen film Husbands and Wives. The two discuss how the aesthetic choices made here are radically thrilling in a way rarely shown otherwise by the director, or any filmmaker for that matter.

0:00-2:10 Opening

2:54-9:45 Establishing Shots - People's Park / Approaching The End

10:29-1:13:00 Deep Focus - Alex Ross Perry
1:13:59-1:15:37 Mubi Sponsorship - The Color Wheel and Wuthering Heights

1:16:50-1:35:51 Double Exposure - Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)

1:35:55-1:37:48 Close / Outtakes

Listen Up Philip is now in theaters and on iTunes.
View The Color Wheel on iTunes and Amazon. Impolex has appeared on No Budge.
Husbands and Wives on Amazon.

Notes and Links from the Conversation

-People's Park on iTunes
-More information on Cinema Guild
-Approaching The End
-The Color of Pomegranates was discussed on last week's podcast
-The Legend of Suram Fortress
-Peter's reviews of The Color Wheel and Listen Up Philip
-Alex on his influential movies
-Orson Welles 100 at Film Forum
-Karl Bardosh
-Alexander Kluge
-Alex on his time at Kim's Video Store
-Joe Swanberg is producing Queen of Earth
-Frownland
-Letters Never Sent and They Were Expendable
-A preview interview on The Traditions (and an explanation over its cancelation)
-A profile of Fluffy the Cat
-More on La Ultima Pelicula

Theme Music: “Forward” by Northbound

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