Alex Ross Perry
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
- Awards
- 6 wins & 28 nominations
Director
Writer
Actor
- Alternative name
- Alex Perry
- Quotes[on his cinematic inspirations forQueen of Earth (2015)] All this came together during aRainer Werner Fassbinderretrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. I went to a double bill ofDie bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (1972)andMartha (1974).I knew that was the kind of movie I wanted to make. From there, it became this fun little maze of what other kind of movies you can fold into this - you can take a very sad, emotional drama and find yourself talking about a cheap horror movie likeCarnival of Souls (1962)and realizing it's more connected to those other films than they seem. The common thread here is these really interesting women stories - these unique, threatening and occasionally frightening stories about the troubles of broken women. That's the driving force behind almost all of Fassbinder's films. So immersing in a retrospective gives you time to marinate in this theme of women under extreme duress. But then you look at "Carnival of Souls", orRoman Polanski'sRepulsion (1965),and it takes the form of exaggerated gothic horror. Then you look atRobert Altman'sImages (1972),which straddles both lines and becomes a fascinating text of its own. In his body of work, at the time of that film and now, that one sort of sticks out as this quasi-horror experiment. Then I was also thinking ofWoody Allen'sInteriors (1978),which is as quiet a drama as you can have. I wanted this movie to live in this cinematic world of broken women.
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