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I sometimes wonder just why it is that I love Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye so much. I know that it's because it encompasses my love for California (especially at a time when I was still living in Britain and dreamed of living here - though
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On Thursday evening, we saw our longtime friend Andrew Hale perform with Sade at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, in one of the most beautifully conceived and produced concert performances I have ever seen. Sade is a rare musician, in that she and the band only write, record and
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On Friday night, the whole family went out on the lake while Hudson fished. As we were coming back across the water, the light changed as the sun set and the moon rose - and for about ten to fifteen minutes we were enveloped by the most sublime color show
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Random thoughts following my post about the new Criterion edition of Insignificance: 1. I particularly remember the thrill, while we were shooting at night outside Carnegie Hall (the location for the original, iconic sequence in which Marilyn Monroe's dress is aroused by the air blowing up from a
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I am very excited by the release of the beautiful new Criterion DVD and Blu-Ray transfer of Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance, a film I was lucky enough to executive produce...without ever really having intended to be a producer. The film, which is about a remarkable (and entirely imagined)
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I look on British film director Nicolas Roeg as many things: a friend, a mentor, almost a second father to me, but also the filmmaker who had the greatest personal influence on opening my eyes to what film could do. His films, not least Performance, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell
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This piece is from my wife, Charong Chow's food blog, Eating With Hudson. Muse is a remarkable school... Nestled in the hills of Topanga Canyon, California, is an extraordinary school called MUSE School CA. Inspired by the Italian Reggio educational philosophy, founders Suzy Amis-Cameron and Rebecca Amis wanted
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It's vital, I think - especially as the father of two young children - to have some moments in the day of silence and stillness, time in which you can be totally "alone" and quiet and reflect on who fundamentally you are, and ask the question:
Some years ago, the British film director (and wonderful friend and collaborator) Nicolas Roeg gave me a book and told me, “Read this, it will change your life.”I had no idea what to expect – except that with Nic, I trusted that he knew what he was talking about. I
On the morning of Monday July 26, I will be giving a talk at UCLA to visiting film students from the University of Miami, thanks to my dear friend, Paul Lazarus, Director of the Motion Picture Program of the School of Communications there. I used to teach a graduate screenwriting
A young friend of ours, Whitney Martishius, recently saw an art piece that I created for the Miami Art Museum in 1997 hanging on our wall. She read it and was greatly moved by it, so much so that I offered to send her a copy. (The actual artwork is