(Critics) thought I was promoting violence, but the fact is that violence in America is predominant and it’s become commercialized.” “It was a satire and a sad film to make,” Stone said of “Natural Born Killers.” “The media were going out of control looking for more and more sensational stuff, and when you start to live by that appetite you die by it. With that in mind, how does Stone feel about the two films screening at the Drafthouse? Each one was made with passion, and at the time it was the most important thing in the world to me.” “I’m enjoying it myself and going by my own reactions and remembering that time and place in my life that I made that movie. “If I watch one of my films with an audience, I’m not sitting there monitoring the audience,” Stone, 69, said.
Now Chaw is welcoming Stone - the Oscar-winning director of “Platoon,” “Wall Street,” “Born on the Fourth of July,” “JFK” and many others - to his house for March 6 screenings and a discussion of 1994’s controversial, ultraviolent “Natural Born Killers,” starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, as well as 1997’s “U-Turn,” starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez.Īs Stone noted, author and editor Matt Zoller Seitz, who is finishing a book about Stone, will lead an in-person discussion with the director between the films, with “U-Turn” screening first (he’ll also stick around for a March 7 screening of “Scarface,” which Stone wrote).
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Confidential,” “The Black Dahlia”) to host a film series at the Drafthouse shortly after Ellroy moved to Denver last year. He convinced acclaimed writer James Ellroy (“L.A. And he wanted to invite me to his Drafthouse.”Ĭhaw, a critic and author who has taught at the University of Denver, has a thing for crime flicks. “He’s quite perceptive and makes conscious some of the things in those films I hadn’t thought about. “Walter wrote something about my gangster films that my friend Matt Seitz showed me, and it was really lovely,” Stone said over the phone from Los Angeles, referring to Alamo Drafthouse Littleton manager Walter Chaw. If you’re going to invite Oliver Stone to your house to discuss two of his darkest films, you’d better know your crime fiction.
Oliver Stone on violence, satire and watching his films with fans – The Denver Post
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