Writing Samples
David Chute
Hungry Ghost Productions
708 S. Mariposa Ave., #407
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Tel 213-389-7397
Fax 240-368-7071
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Criticism
- Brad Bird's animated libertarian comedy-thriller The Incredibles.
- Iraq's beleagured Kurds find a visionary spkesman in Turtles Can Fly.
- World Musicals
-- LA Weekly essay on the landmark UCLA series of international musicals.
- Neal Stephenson
-- A pulse-pounding literary essay, from the "Tech" section of the LA Weekly.
- Gunman's Walk
-- Noir Westerns at UCLA, LA Weekly, July 11-17, 2003.
- Dirty Old Stanley
-- Review of Eyes Wide Shut for the Santa Monica Mirror.
- Adam Sandler's About A Boy
-- Review of Big Daddy for the Santa Monica Mirror.
- The Opposite of Sex
-- Review for the Los Angeles Times.
- Shanghai Gestures
-- A program of Pre-Revolution Chinese films at UCLA.
- Master Builder.
-- LA Weekly essay on Egyptian master moviemaker Youssef Chahine.
- Closely Watched Terrains
-- New Iranian Cinema at UCLA.
- The Truce
-- Francesco Rosi on Primi Levi, for The Hollywood Reporter.
- In the Realm of the Senses
-- Korean Buddhist films at LACMA.
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Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
-- A review from the Los Angeles Times, May 22, 1998.
- Selected reviews from IFilm.com...
...which used to be cool.
Journalism
- Bruce Campbell and Don Coscarelli on Bubba Ho-Tep
- Pulp Friction
-- Roger Avary on Rules of Attraction for the LA Weekly, October 11-17, 2002.
- Fire in the Bowl
-- Los Angeles magazine article on David Tran's Huy Fong hot sauce empire.
- Remembering Things Past
-- LA Weekly interview with Korean director Im Kwon-taek.
- Film Preservation 2000
-- Are movies destined for the Dead Media Hall of Fame? An article for Film Comment. It incorporates material prepared for (but never published by) the LA Weekly
- Man of The West
-- LA Weekly interview with the late great Budd Boetticher.
- The Kids Aren't Alright
-- Kinji Fukasaku's teen-splatter satire Battle Royale. Premiere, Jully 2001.
- Movie Mecca
-- A feature on LA's great American Cinematheque, from the final issue of Buzz, June 1998.
- The Truman Show and The Secret Cinema
-- Culture evolves in mysterious ways. From the Los Angeles Times, June 8, 1998.
- Size Doesn't Matter: Joe Dante and Small Soldiers
-- A feature on the new film and its director, from the Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1998.
- The General
-- John Boorman and Brendan Gleeson on Irish Godfather Martin Cahill.
- Coppola's Rainbow
-- From the Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1998.
- Harrison Ford
-- One of my favorite early interviews, from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 1981.
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