Red rocket sean baker9/23/2023 So going into NYU with like, aspirations of doing, you know, making robot cop or Die Hard down the line, you know, it turned into me wanting to make mystery train down the line, you know, like, by the end of those four years, and yeah, and then shortly after NYU, I pulled together enough money out shortly, I guess it was a few years. But also foreign film barn film was made its impact. Yeah, and being exposed to not only much, you know, the greater world of independent film and discovering passive Eddie's was etc. And during those four years, I got being in New York, you know, this was still pre internet, but I had access to a lot more towards in terms of repertory houses and Kim's video store. And I was so I don't know, there was something that was that was telling me, you know, I'm already close to New York, I really want to embrace that New York indie thing that these guys have going on. You know, I applied to USC, UCLA and NYU I forgot if I got into the other two, but NYU is like the one I really wanted to because to go to because at the time, you know, it was really Spike Lee and John moosh had made such an impact. So being exposed, you know, using the video store, essentially, as my, my education, making, you know, VHS films in high school, doing my yearbook, my video yearbook for my high school, you know, the geeky AV club thing, then I'm then going to NYU going to NYU. You know, just just just taking in as much film at the time as I could, being in suburban New Jersey. And I went through the cliche, you know, that that shooting Super Eight film until VHS rolled around, I'm showing my age right now. And the next day, I was like, I want to be a filmmaker. And I remember that night, the day before, I wanted to be a construction worker. And I fell in love with an image from James Wales, Frankenstein, the burning windmill sequence At the end of the film. And they were showing clips from the universal monster films. Well, I, I've wanted to make films since I was six years old when my mother brought me to the local library. But for for everybody listening who might not know what you've done, how did you get into the business? What like made what drew you in? And it was it was a it's an experience, we'll talk about it. And they're like, do you wanna see Shawn's new movie? I'm like, Yes. Okay, I went to a press, I went to a press screening at it. So, I understand, did you watch that AFS? I mean, you talk to people in West and West Texas, and they have no idea what's happening over in East Texas. So I was out I was in Texas, and I was just like, wow, this is just another part of Texas. And it's so funny because I literally just moved to Austin. And we're also going to talk about your amazing new film red rocket, which I had the pleasure of watching a couple weeks ago and I was just of course floored by it. We're gonna go a little bit into your process. You had that little iPhone film that did okay. I like to welcome back to the show returning champion Sean Baker. I watched Red Rocket and I have to tell you it’s one of the best films I’ve seen this year. The audacious new film from writer- director Sean Baker ( The Florida Project, Tangerine), starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, Red Rocket is a darkly funny, humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him. Starlet (2012) was the winner of the Robert Altman Independent Spirit Award and his previous two features, Take Out (2004) and Prince of Broadway (2008), were both nominated for the John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award. His previous film Tangerine (2015) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won an Independent Spirit and two Gotham Awards. Among the many accolades the film received - including an Oscar nomination for Willem Dafoe for Best Supporting Actor - Sean was named Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle. His most recent film was the award-winning The Florida Project (2017) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released by A24 in the U.S. Sean Baker is a writer, director, producer and editor who has made seven independent feature films over the course of the past two decades.
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