Strand Bookstore
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Michel Gondry, You'll Like This Film Because You're In It
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Monday Oct 27, 2008 (7pm)
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Michel Gondry creating a how-to book on filmmaking is a little like Italo Calvino penning a fiction-writing manual — it's bound to be delivered in a one-of-a-kind idiom. Tonight's reading of You'll Like This Film Because You're In It finds the low-tech French auteur pushing — in no uncertain terms — for egalité and liberté for filmmakers everywhere. The DIY tome also reflects on Gondry's last film, Be Kind Rewind, and addresses the BKR-inspired films made at Deitch Projects, where the director set up a makeshift studio for fan reenactments. Crafting a classic is never as easy as lights, camera, action, but Gondry's noncommercial, yes-you-can approach is a good start.
