If you’re going to give money on Kickstarter to one literary film projects, consider “Algren — The Movie.” And if you aren’t familiar with Nelson Algren, at least do it because you want to hear some Simone de Beauvoir sex talk.
“For much of his life, Marker functioned as a foreign correspondent, a romantic leftist in the Malraux mode travelling the world from West Africa to Siberia. Most of his early films were personal travelogues—short features notable for their wry, poetic voiceover narration and serendipitous approach to foreign societies.” (via The Lost Futures of Chris Marker by J. Hoberman | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books)
Photo by Heidi Gutman:
Bryan Greenberg plays Nathan Fisher in A Short History of Decay. This scene is from the shoot in Brooklyn at Kos Kaffe on 11/19/12. The shoot was covered by The New York Times, New York Magazine, Word and Film and other outlets.
Spot the Vol.1 Brooklyn editor in the background. He looms!
