Miranda July's Blog, page 3
October 22, 2011
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ICY on sale from Miranda July on Vimeo.
Ladies and Gentlemen! I am pleased to announce a new book in the world, It Chooses You. I wrote this book.
It is has a cover that is only risque if you look carefully. It is the first book I've made that is non-fiction, ie: autobiographical. While not exactly being a "tell-all" I do tell a fair amount. Other people do too. I was looking through my old emails trying to find the one my best friend wrote me after reading it, but I could only this email about a dream she had: "last night i had a dream about you set in thailand, where you were making a movie that was quite a departure from your previous work. it was scared of the thai water getting in my mouth, but i was very tan, with long braids, and very attractive. you were good friends with lots of stars, including julianne moore. i was about to have sex with a few charming people. it was all very vivid and weird. there were no locks on doors and when stores closed they left all theirs goods out, but no one ever stole." She really liked It Chooses You, and I think you will too. You can get an early copy here: http://bit.ly/qKnJUH
September 28, 2011
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Berliners! Remember the Mexican restaurant in Kreuzberg I mentioned? So many friends asked me for the name of the place that I re-found it, by finding my old apartment on Google maps and then "walking" there using street view. I felt very modern. To have the best appreciation for this restaurant you might have to be an American woman who has spent the entire day working with German men in a windowless room on issues of film post-production that are so subtle that no one is even sure they are visible to anyone but you, the American woman, but you are hell-bent and won't go back to LA until everything is crossed off your list written in tiny crazy-person handwriting. You have to spend all day making very little progress on the list, and then get on your bike and ride in the dark along the side of Grolitzer park, bumping on cobblestones, face freezing, wearing a dumb warm hat with a hipper hat over it, which doesn't look so hip on top of the other hat. Park the bike at La Pulqueria and come in and order the 3 enchilada combo to go. Watch the one very pretty waitress as she makes her away around the restaurant and is nice to even you, a non-person in two hats. Then put the dinner in the bike basket and ride home, lock the bike, take the elevator up, hoping there is no one else in it at the same time because you always feel married to them during the short upward journey, and you have so little to offer as a wife right now, even a 2-minute wife. Unlock the apartment door, throw off the two hats, the coat, the boots, the scarf, the mittens. Sit immediately at the kitchen table with the 3 enchilada combo and the computer, and, almost crying with relief to be at this moment in the day, this zenith, watch The Office (american version), a tv show that didn't seem so incredible back in America, but now is EVERYTHING, all your emotions are processed through the show, you laugh, you cry while eating the enchiladas, which are warm, friendly, loving, kind and reminiscent of Los Angeles, a city which (like The Office) didn't seem so great when you were actually living there, but now, well, it's best not to think about it because you might never finish this movie and might never go home.
Bon appetit!
Mexikanisches Restaurant La Pulqueria
Spreewaldplatz 5, Kreuzberg, 10999 Berlin, Germany
+49 30/61657160
http://www.facebook.com/thefuture.der...
September 27, 2011
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Londoners!
Tickets just went on sale for the special screening of The Future at the Tate. I will be there, answering questions by forming sounds from my throat with shapes made by my tongue (pictured below) and mouth.
Saturday 22 October 2011, 18.30
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventse...
September 26, 2011
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Ok Londoners, I will be making my way towards you, flying with my own giant flapping arms. I may land heavily, descent has never been my strength. Once there I will lay on a towel on my hotel room floor for at least ten minutes, as advised by my acupuncturist. And then the party will begin:
1.
The Future screens at the London Film Festival
Thu 20| 21:00| Vue Screen 5
Fri 21| 12:15| Vue Screen 5
Sun 23| 18:30| Ritzy Screen 2
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/1693
(The public can book from Monday 26 September.)
2.
A "masterclass" at the LFF
Sat 22| 13:30
| NFT 1
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/1751
(The public can book from Monday 26 September.)
3.
A "sermon" at The School of Life
The School of Life
SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2011, 11.30 -12.45
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1
http://www.theschooloflife.com/Sermon...
(Tickets for sale now.)
4.
And one more thing that will be announced shortly.
September 19, 2011
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I'm getting pretty excited about the The Future in Germany, it opens October 27th and I will be there in the days leading up, to introduce you to it. Here's the brand new German facebook site www.facebook.com/thefuture.derfilm, and they are working on some other intriguing web activities which I will update you about soon. At this time last year I was in Berlin finishing The Future (yes it's true, it is a German/US co-production) and I have to say I feel a bit nostalgic about riding my bike to work, past drug dealers in the park, always feeling guilty that I rode right past them, never once stopping to buy drugs. I also miss poppy seed cake, the oddly good mexican restuarant, even being cold seems kind of romantic right now. Here are some items I bought at shops in my neighborhood, Kreuzberg, on my first day in the city. Good thing I went on the first day, because I was working so hard for the next month that I never had another had another moment to wander around like this, my favorite kind of day. Any Germans reading this? Tschüss.
September 12, 2011
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Skype Q+A, at the Belcourt Theater in Nashville, TN. It dawns on me that they are being lit by a giant projection of my face. This is the closest I get to being the sun.
September 9, 2011
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Recorded the director's commentary track for the DVD The Future today. Just before I started it occured to me I've never actually heard a director's commentary. But that didn't stop me from talking for 91 minutes straight. About Midnight In Paris.
August 26, 2011
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The Future is playing in Seattle! Miami! Brooklyn! Cleveland! Berkeley! And many other places: http://thefuturetheaters.blogspot.com/
Answer #1 & 2: My ass and my signal
Answer #3: Pineapple
Answer #4: Patti Smith
Answer # 5: Fans
August 19, 2011
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Many of you have asked about "the signal" between Sophie and Jason -the song that will trigger them to remember their love even if they get amnesia or something tragic happens to make them forget. It is "Where or When", sung by Peggy Lee with the Benny Goodman Trio. (The singing starts at 1:17.) Even listening to it now, for the trillionth time, it is still so haunting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbnA78...
And for those of you who don't yet know about "the signal", maybe the movie opens in your city today?? Please check: http://thefuturetheaters.blogspot.com/
We are trying to bring you the signal, the cat, the dance, all of it.
August 16, 2011
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Denver! Atlanta! Las Vegas! San Francisco! My hometown of Berkeley! These are just some of the cities The Future is playing in starting this Friday. Check here to see where else: http://bit.ly/oFTra3 If you live in one of these cities and read this blog then you are The Official Host of The Future in your city — you are the core constituency. Please welcome it, introduce it to your friends, take care of it for me. Your word of mouthing and facebooking has been breathtaking to watch, don't stop and I won't either.
