Comments for Catherine Taylor

Comment on Press by admin

admin — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:00:18 +0000

Hi Jessica,

Actually, I feel pretty much the same way. Vampire films very rarely go where I want them to in terms of humour, story and where the camera goes. I’d really like to see more of vampirism taking more realistically- True Blood does it sometimes, and when they do, they nail it, but it gets lost in all the other stuff.

I loved Interview With a Vampire, but there’s always this negativity which isn’t that much fun.

I’m very intrigued by what you say about people with Aspergers seeing things differently. I would love to make a film seeing like that. Can you elaborate on how differently you see things?

xxxx

Comment on Cinderella’s Revenge: The Highest Pointe by Jessica Read

Jessica Read — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:17:49 +0000

how she danced and balanced in those shoes I can only put down to talent as a ballet dancer … which is what I always wanted to be! in one of those pink tutu’s with a whispy waste. This reminds me of a beautiful cartoon draft of a dancer but the pictures produced where numerous and the flow was magnificent. I think it was french (of course). It’s a pity you don’t play your music (guitar) as a sound track also … maybe using Cakewalk and a MIDI. Some of the sound tracks remind me of American Beauty when he films a plastic bag being manipulated by the wind.
I love the ugly duckling for my own personal reasons of course (being a transwoman) and I once owned a purple wig too. Hugs xxx Jessica

Comment on Press by Jessica Read

Jessica Read — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:50:28 +0000

Lake Placid 3 has awesome sexy voiced female hunter and sets that wobble and a bloodied left arm which is then right arm in different shots … I bought this movie I thought it was very enjoyable.
Life’s Blood has two fem gay’s who are brought back to life as basiically vampires by a female god. A very sensual and moving film with lots of emotion.
I feel no one has yet quite made the vampyre film that just ‘does it’ for me. I guess I need to make my own to get what I want, like you say about diving into the water after Neo (K Reeve) and following them both under the surface … Like in one of the Matrix scenes when Trinity falls backwards out of a window wwhilst firing at an agent and he follows her out off the window as does the viewer (camera) and a lot of the scenes where written and designed by aspergers people (like me) because we can see things in a different way to real people. Hugs xxx Jessica

Comment on Currently in Production… three films about “Cinderella’s Revenge” by Jessica Read

Jessica Read — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:24:49 +0000

Just watched my own copy of Temptation which I found very interesting and obviously enjoyable. I love the idea of Cinderella’s Revenge. Tilda Swinton would have been really cool dressed in leathers and black feathers as was Joan of Arc (Alice in Resident Evil) and can never spell her name!
I watched The Drowners and found this in some ways more sensual than the Temptation. Perhaps cause I love being under water and thee sounds it conjures up. I am 58, a transwoman from birth which means I have the wrong genitalia for who I am in my head. I also have autism/aspergers and am now retired but still continuing my art and other talents which seems to be numerous as if to be a substitute for my being born a freak and a mutant. Films are everything to me and a way for me to escape my own prison in this body. I love your work and I really have made note of your name and wish to see as much of your work as is possible. What I have seen of you I really like. I love where you work is taking you and the direction you are taking. I also have all three short films by different women directors. I can only wish you well with your work and future career as a Director. Directing and Editing are the two main things I have always prefered to acting which is very boring on the set of a film. I Can’t Think Straight was well edited and the conflict of religion and culture was also intersting.
Please carry on with your work. I hope you can still find funding for your films. Hugs xxx Jessica