Ishmael Reed on Melinda

“Porter’s poetry and paintings have a soft, lyrical quality.”

                                        - Ishmael Reed



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Melinda interviews Alain Robbe-Grillet for Through Parisian Eyes

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922 - 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker.

Despite self-imposed periods of abstinence before the completion of a film, Alain Robbe-Grillet is well known for the bouts of theorizing that follow.

"The camera records surfaces and the 'meaning' of the images does not interest me. I do not use symbolism in my films."

"My films are not erotically stimulating. There is a complete difference between my film and a pornographic film. They aim to excite the audience. I intend to deprive these images of excitement and hope to reveal their banality."

"I never make films for a particular audience, and when I started directingI felt my films did not cater to any existing public. But I seem to have created one myself."

Read the full excerpt from Through Parisian Eyes here.

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Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Roger Vadim

Roger Vadim (1928 - 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director, producer, author, and actor.

ROGER VADIM is bored with the image he has created for himself. He feels that he has lost sight of what he wants to do by fulfilling the demands of producers, distributors and stars. In the 20 years since he directed his first film, And God Created Woman with Brigitte Bardot, he has known only too well how to sell himself, his wives and there by his films. He calls himself someone who has been typecast too long.

“It was very difficult to me to liberate myself from commercial success. When you've made a successful film, producers want to repeat the formula,” he says, talking in a mixture of French and English (although he has a perfect command of the latter).

At 46, he had made his first film for which he is willing to take full responsibility. La Jeune Fille Assassinee is, according to Vadim, an exploration of the problems of the new freedom that women have today. He has scripted, directed, and produced it and also stars in it. Its heroine, Charlotte, played by a new actress Sirpa Lane, is “young, beautiful and brilliant and feels that she can do whatever she likes”. But Vadim shows that it isn't that simple: she ends up brutally murdered.

Read the full article from The Observer here.

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