Everything is Beautiful, and Nothing Hurts: Bertolucci's 'Stealing Beauty'

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Bertolucci's 'Stealing Beauty'

I tried to fit this film into a course proposal last week, but it got bumped by Bertolucci's Besieged. Which is a shame, really, because Stealing Beauty has...many virtues...including this scene with Liv Tyler:

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My Short, Happy Life as an Auteur

I am a filmmaker. Or, at any rate, I once was. Between 1999 and 2002, I made several short films, starting with "My Mother Received a Wound"--which showed at a few film festivals and is still featured in the Moondance Festival's annual "best of" restrospective. The zenith (or nadir, perhaps) of my moviemaking was surely MOCK, a 47-minute mockumentary film about a filmmaker who makes mockumentary films. You can watch MOCK and other projects on my Youtube channel if you click here. Enjoy! (By the way, another filmmaker with my name lives in San Antonio. He spells Erik with a k, and his movies are a good deal more accomplished than mine. I'm quite sure he wouldn't want anyone mistaking my work for his.)