Rule #1 of talking about movies— If you've said it well, Steven Soderbergh has said it better.
Soderbergh on Scorcese's comic gem AFTER HOURS
AFTER HOURS is a low budget film from Scorcese's out-of-fashion mid-80s period, when he was in film jail for NEW YORK NEW YORK and in his humility made my 2 favorite films of his, both jet-black comedies: THE KING OF COMEDY and AFTER HOURS.
As Soderbergh points out, everything that makes AFTER HOURS work is cheap if not free for the indie filmmaker— perfectly cast talent in the lead, a great screenplay, and clever limits on scope: 1 day, all at night, with the focus on great, off-balancing supporting roles.
"Great screenplay" is a term thrown around a lot (indiewood vampire John Sloss dropped it on twitter earlier today, in fact) so pay special attention to Sodernbergh's breakdown of what that means:
"The way information is doled out in this film is fucking masterful, an absolute clinic in implication and inference—none of the key events that drive the story forward and fuck with the main character occur onscreen—and the math of plotting is absolutely airtight. "
Let's all be so aspired and inspired.
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