Miranda July is making another movie? Yes.
We tried to ask him about it afterward, but got cockblocked from some wealthy, air-kissing sycophants, but during the Q&A following a Brooklyn screening of “Ken Park,” the co-director and lauded cinematographer Ed Lachman revealed his next project would be lensing July’s next film.
Who knew? Like we said, we tried to ask him details, but got disturbed and then gave up, but that was one eye-raising tidbit that came out of the film’s screening (Lachman co-directed Ken Park with perv-cinema auteur Larry Clark and his cinematography work is currently being feted at BAM).
But further research tell us that July is currently working on the script which is going to be based on her performance “Things We Don’t Understand and Definitely Are Not Going To Talk About.” Apparently this multi-media stage performance which incorporated live and taped video segments included musical help from Jon Brion, so will he be scoring this thing? Let’s hope so (Brion previously scored, Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind,” “Punch-Drunk Love” and in recent years produced an album with singer Dido that is expected to finally see release later this year.).
Either way, if Lachman is onboard, the project must be getting closer to fruition.
Miranda July last film, her debut, was the extremely auspicious “Me And You And Everyone We Know” in 2003 and we’d heard some rumors from a reliable source that she would never make a film again, so we were happy to hear she’ll be back as ‘Everyone’ is one of our favorite indie films of this decade (yes, it’s too precious for some, whatever, to those we say: ))(( . And we gotta throw down the gaunlet. The ‘Everyone’ score by Michael Andrews (“Walk Hard,” “Freaks & Geeks”) is probably our favorite of this decade (at least so far).
Earlier this year Alia Raza directed a short based on July’s short story collection “No One Belongs Here More Than You,” with Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Lavender Diamond’s tinkerbell, Becky Stark.
Maybe this good news will force something to come out soon. Lachman also said that the many Polaroid portraits he took of the actors – including the now deceased Heath Ledger – on the set of “I’m Not There,” (he was the cinematographer) would soon arrive as an photo art gallery showing.