Good Movie Alert: Filmmaker Kris Rey Mixes Nostalgia and Reality in ‘I Used To Go Here’

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The optimism of one woman’s 20s meets the disappointment of her 30s in I Used To Go Here, a new film from Chicago filmmaker Kris Rey.

We talked to Rey about the inspiration for the film, her recent name change from Swanberg to Rey, and what she tells young filmmakers.

“Go for it,” she said. “The stakes are not that high. You can always start over.”

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0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
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0:57.0	I'm Greta Johnson, and I am very excited to introduce you to our guest today. She is filmmaker Chris Ray. She wrote and directed the new movie I Used to Go here, which stars Gillian Jacobs, who you might know from the TV show Community, and Jemaine Clement, who you might know from the HBO show, Flight of the Concordes. Chris has written and directed a number of films over the course of her career.
1:01.3	Most recently in 2015, she did a movie called Unexpected, which is also great.
1:07.1	I used to go here was supposed to premiere at this year's South by Southwest Festival, but because 2020 is the worst year ever, well, I don't know. I guess now you can rent it,
1:16.7	so that's cool. I will say it is great. It's great to see you. That was good to see you.
1:22.4	Thank you for having me. I was so excited to hear you're still teaching. Yeah, I'm still at it.
1:26.9	Hopefully I'm better at this whole professor thing than when you were in my class.
1:30.4	Come on, you blew everyone away that first year. You were this young writer who came out of nowhere. You were so enthusiastic.
1:36.4	Well, I'm older now, but thanks, Kate. There's such a big compliment. Thank you.
1:40.6	Hi. Hi. Oh, hey, Alexis. Okay. This is my wife, Alexis. You have a wife?
1:48.9	I do. I got one about five years ago. Well, it is so nice to meet you. So nice to meet you. David
1:55.6	talks about you all the time. Oh, really? Not all the time. Not all the time.
2:03.1	Chris, hello. I'm so excited to talk to you about this movie.
2:06.5	Oh my God. I'm so excited to be on this podcast.
2:10.5	So I used to go here is about Kate, who's a woman in her like mid-30s. She just wrote
2:16.8	her first book. And in the first
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