Durga Chew-Bose on "Bonjour Tristesse" and the Beauty of Being a First-Time Filmmaker

I needed somewhere to write, to integrate what I had learned while my world was being reshaped. The MA was a study of imagination and the first of its kind in that it was a scholarly pursuit but also soul work and deeply transformational.

Substack became that. It became the place where I set out to figure out what I think and endeavour to give words... See more

When I made Four Letter Words , I didn’t deep dive yet beyond the big titles. Of course, I saw maybe three or four of [John Cassavetes]’(https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001023/){:target=”_blank”}, but I hadn’t seen the entire Cassavetes library, I hadn’t seen the entire Ken Loach library, et cetera, et cetera.