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One of the best evocations of cinema as jazz, and vice-versa."Grace of My Heart" (Allison Anders, 1996) -- pop music history mix-and-match (not unlike "Velvet Goldmine" in that respect) with terrific songs co-authored by Brill Building vets and contemporary artists. I watch this one over and over.
Growing up in rural Kentucky, Allison Anders survived a brutal gang rape age 12; three years later she fled to LA with her mother and sister after her stepfather threatened her with a gun. When she enrolled at UCLA film school a few years later, she was a single mother getting by on waitressing and welfare.
Before carving out a niche as one of the most distinct voices in nineties American cinema, Allison Anders made her debut, alongside codirectors and fellow UCLA film school students Kurt Voss and Dean Lent, with 1987’s Border Radio. A low-key, semi-improvised postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D., of the Flesh Eaters, as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife (Luanna Anders), a no ...
Writer/Director Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging, Grace of My Heart, Four Rooms) sits down with us to talk about two of her favorite directors, Ida Lupino and Anthony Mann. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode. Frankenstein (1931) Border Radio (1987) Gas Food Lodging (1992) Mi Vida Loca (1993) Four Rooms (1995) Grace of My Heart (1996)
Apr 11, 2016 · Interview with: Allison Anders, conducted January 2006 Allison Anders' films are often marked by her great love of music and her interest in a woman's struggle to find and assert her identity, whether she's telling the story of small-town teenagers in 1992's Gas, Food, Lodging, East L.A. homegirls in 1993's Mi Vida Loca, or an aspiring singer-songwriter in 1996's Grace of My Heart.
Feb 22, 2019 · Allison Anders is an award-winning American director whose best known films include Gas, Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace Of My Heart – she’s also directed television shows like Orange is the New Black, Sex and the City and The L Word, among myriad others. Born and raised in Kentucky, Anders graduated from UCLA in 1986 and soon began working on independent films, many of which featured themes of human resilience and the realities of fame.
Caroline Gil. Allison Anders’s 1994 film Mi Vida Loca follows the stories of young Chicanas in the pre-gentrification Los Angeles neighborhood Echo Park. The women portrayed are rebellious, independent and emotionally complex, recalling Los Bros Hernandez’s Locas stories. And contemporary audiences can relish at the women’s ...
