Helen Hunt’s Family Day at the Beach
Helen Hunt’s Family Day at the Beach
Showing off her six pack abs, Helen Hunt was all smiles during a Thursday afternoon trip to the beach in Venice, California.
Accompanied by daughter Makena Lei and boyfriend Matthew Carnahan, the “As Good As It Gets” actress kept busy building sand castles with her daughter in between brief sunning sessions.
As for her career in film, Hunt is in the middle of the worldwide release of her directorial debut film, “The She Found Me”.
Out in the States in limited release beginning last month, the film tells the story of “a New York schoolteacher hitting a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.”
Helen Hunt Promotes “Then They Found Me”
Helen Hunt Promotes “Then They Found Me”
She’s stepped away from the spotlight for quite some time, but Helen Hunt is ready for a comeback on the big screen.
The Mad About You actress was in attendance at last night’s Miami International Film Festival to promote her latest work, Then They Found Me.
In the film, which is based on the Elinor Lipman novel by the same name and co-stars Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick, Hunt took on three roles - actress, director and co-adapter.
The film, which hits theaters in the States on April 25th, “A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.”
Alfred Hitchcock on How the Introduction of Sound Hurt Cinema
I just discovered this quote from master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, talking about how the introduction of sound and dialogue had in many ways hurt cinema:
“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema; the only thing they lacked was the sound of people talking and the noises. But this slight imperfection did not warrant the major changs that sound brought in. In Many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema. They are mostly what I call ‘photographs of people talking.’ When we tell a story in cinema, we should resort to dialogue only when it’s impossible to do otherwise. I always try first to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between… To me, one of the cardinal sins for a scriptwriter, when he runs into some difficulty, is to say ‘We can cover that by a line of dialogue.’ Dialogue should simply be a sound among sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”