#everything is copy

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Nora Ephron: Everything is Copy

"We all grew up with this thing that my mother said to us over and over and over and over again which was: everything is copy. Now, you'd come home with some thing that you thought was the tragedy of your life—someone hadn't asked you to dance or your hem had fallen out of your dress or whatever you thought was the worst thing that could ever happen to a human being—and my mother would say: everything is copy.

I now believe that what my mother meant is this: when you slip on a banana peel people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

I think that's what she meant. On the other hand, she may merely have meant: everything is copy."

Nora Ephron on EVERYTHING IS COPY (2015)

The doc is on youtube here.

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first time views - december 2017 (best of ranked)

persona (1966), dir. ingmar bergman

blue velvet (1986), dir. david lynch

mad max: fury road (2015), dir. george miller

one flew over the coockoo’s nest (1975), dir. miloš forman

beginners (2010), dir. mike mills

loving vincent (2017), dir. dorota kobiela, hugh welchman

fight club (1999), dir. david fincher

birdman (2014), dir. alejandro gonzales inarritu

star wars: the last jedi (2017), dir. rian johnson

sin nombre (2009), dir. cary fukunaga

district 9 (2009), dir. neill blomkamp

molly’s game (2017), dir. aaron sorkin

american hustle (2013), dir. david o. russel

127 hours (2010), dir. danny boyle

the wave (2008), dir. dennis gansel

coco (2017), dir. lee unkrich

bright lights: starring carrie fisher and debbie reynolds (2016), dir. alexis bloom, fisher stevens

everything is copy (2015), dir. jacob bernstein, nick hooker

carrie fisher: wishful drinking (2010), dir. fenton bailey, randy barbato

the straight story (1999), dir. david lynch

sin city (2005), dir. frank miller, robert rodriguez

the little hours (2017), dir. jeff baena

following (1998), dir. christopher nolan

batman returns (1992), dir. tim burton

pee-wee’s big adventure (1985), dir. tim burton

the beguiled (2017), dir. sofia coppola

thumbsucker (2005), dir. mike mills

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WATCHLIST 2022: Everything Is Copy

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Everything is Copy (2015), dir. by Jacob Bernstein and Nick Hooker

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Everything Is Copy

Everything Is Copy    [trailer]

A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron.

While understandable why it's the case, it is often highly personal, which I don't like, it feels too intrusive for me. But it's for the most part very entertaining and funny.