Formative Directors (Part One)

Published: Nov. 28, 2017, 6:37 p.m.

There\u2019s nothing like first love, especially when it\u2019s projected on the silver screen. This week\u2019s episode of the podcast revisits formative cinematic fascinations\u2014one director who kickstarted cinephilia at a young age, and another who reinvigorated and maybe even recontextualized the passion a bit later down the road. This week\u2019s participants\u2014Nick Davis, professor of film, literature, and gender studies at Northwestern; Girish Shambu, author of The New Cinephilia and the September/October FC feature on immigration cinema \u201cA Double Life\u201d; Michael Koresky, Director of Editorial and Creative Strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; and Violet Lucca, Film Comment Digital Producer and podcast host\u2014took a breather between TIFF screenings to discuss their favorites, as well as how their emotions have evolved with (or been challenged by) the passage of time. Jane Campion, Manmohan Desai, Ingmar Bergman, and Quentin Tarantino make this half!