Juliet Landau has now released her second film (her first was the dark music video Hero) Take Flight – a documentary focusing on actor Gary Oldman making a music video for the Jewish hip hop band 'Chutzpah'. Landau, who has appeared on the Tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and in the Tim Burton film Ed Wood, was asked to shoot a ‘making of’ for Oldman, a friend of hers, and the resulting footage became an experience all its own. Over 50 hours of footage, from a cell phone with Pov shots to 3 cameras at once, were cut into this short.
We're happy to have Landau back with us again, discussing Take Flight along with her upcoming films The Yellow Wallpaper and Haunted Echoes...
With complete free reign, Landau pieced together a film that
“Shows a very light, playful, childlike, fluid, free, funny side to Gary... It’s like being inside his head,...
We're happy to have Landau back with us again, discussing Take Flight along with her upcoming films The Yellow Wallpaper and Haunted Echoes...
With complete free reign, Landau pieced together a film that
“Shows a very light, playful, childlike, fluid, free, funny side to Gary... It’s like being inside his head,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
It's so Hollywood for an actor to admit that what he or she really wants to do is direct. And it's even more Hollywood for an actor to direct an actor directing, in some vain attempt at creating a vehicle for a side career. But in the case of Juliet Landau — daughter of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain and most recognized for her role as Drusilla in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel — her first directing project is innovative and feels surprisingly un-Hollywood. Landau's short, Take Flight (www.julietlandaustakeflight.com), began as a basic making-of documentary for a nanobudget music video Gary Oldman directed while shooting this summer's blockbuster Dark Knight. Take Flight is a technologically groundbreaking yet intimate glimpse into Oldman's creative process. Not only does the audience get to see a goofier, looser, and even wistful side to the actor whose characters are usually borderline psychotic, but because...
- 9/8/2008
- by Cassie Carpenter
- backstage.com
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