With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete (1947) |
Edie Adams, Musician (1927) |
Herbert Baxter Adams, Educator (1850) |
Akon, Musician (1973) |
Tom Allen, Politician (1945) |
Ellen Barkin, Actress (1955) |
Gina Carano, Actress (1982) |
Peter Garrett, Musician (1953) |
Lukas Haas, Actor (1976) |
Lord Halifax, Politician (1881) |
Fred Davis, Celebrity (1998) |
Ralph Ellison, Author (1994) |
Edna Ferber, Novelist (1968) |
Yasunari Kawabata, Novelist (1972) |
David Lean, Director (1991) |