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Deliver: The All-Female Remake of Deliverance

By Lauren Wissot posted 1 month ago

Hearing about Jennifer Montgomery’s Deliver, an all-female remake of John Boorman’s 1972 Deliverance, having its world premiere at BAMcinématek this evening, I got the same feeling I had when my friend Rose told me about her sister’s all-female, Motley Crue tribute band Girls Girls Girls. How exciting! Upending and giving the finger to notions of gender and sexuality always gets me all hot and bothered. As did watching Burt Reynolds strut his sexy stuff in Boorman’s original (with its screenplay and book by that ornery southern, man’s man James Dickey).

So who would take on the Burt Reynolds role of Lewis – the dude who stands apart from the rest of his male bonding, canoe trip comrades? …Read more

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People at Denver: Vlimos Zsigmond

By posted 2 years ago

I had the pleasure of interviewing Vlimos Zsigmond following a screening of Robert Altman’s film, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. I had wanted to see this film for quite some time and seeing it at a festival with the cinematographer was a rare and wonderful gift. As I listened to the Q&A after the film, I could see why directors like Robert Altman’s, Woody Allen, and Steven Spielberg wanted to work with this man. He was patient, good natured, and a consummate artist. Zsigmond has been the cinematographer on such films as Deliverance, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, Melinda and Melinda and more recently, The Black Dahlia. Listen as he discusses his experience watching McCabe again, what it was like to work with Robert Altman, and the cinematographers and films that inspire him as an artist.