Happy Birthday: Kathryn Bigelow

kathrynbigelow.jpgKathryn Bigelow

Born: November 27, 1951 in San Carlos, California, USA

I always want to make films. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live. Perhaps just because I just came off The Hurt Locker (2008) and I’m thinking of the war and I think it’s a deplorable situation. It’s a great medium in which to speak about that. This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film. There will always be issues I care about.

[on The Hurt Locker (2008)] War’s dirty little secret is that some men love it. I’m trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

Near Dark
1987
dir. Bigelow
Starring:
Adrian Pasdar
Jenny Wright
Bill Paxton
The Weight of Water
2000
dir Bigelow
Starring
Sarah Polley
Sean Penn
THE HURT LOCKERThe Hurt Locker
2009
dir. Bigelow
Starring
Jeremy Renner
Anthony Mackie
MOVIE POSTERZERO DARK 30
2012
dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Stars:
Chris Pratt
Jessica Chastain
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