Jennifer Reeder, ‘Naked Came the Stranger’ and ‘Love Actually’

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Andersen talks with director Jennifer Reeder about her path from making short arthouse films in the 1990s to her new film, “Knives and Skin.” Producer Sam Kim has the story of erotic potboiler “Naked Came the Stranger,” which climbed The New York Times bestseller list in 1969 but, it turns out, was meant to be a parody of the very bodice-rippers it was outselling. And Richard Curtis’ 2003 movie “Love Actually” is much parodied for its cheesy gimmicks and accelerated marriage proposals, but screenwriter Oliver Butcher makes a case for why it is actually a deft work of screenwriting and direction.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:06.2	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.4	I wanted to make a feminist film that had a missing girl at its center.
0:13.5	How one director deals with the beautiful dead girl trope.
0:17.2	Certainly, I want this film to be a kind of battle cry for young people.
0:21.2	Why Jennifer Reader's, Knivesives and Skin is being called a contemporary heathers.
0:30.7	Plus, a new novel about sex and suburbial seems to be on the way to becoming another instant bestseller.
0:39.4	The big 1960s erotic novel...
0:41.9	But it is not all it seems to be.
0:43.8	That turned out to be a great prank.
0:46.1	What came out of it was a plan for writing the worst bestseller in the world.
0:51.7	One of the greatest literary hoaxes ever.
0:55.6	That's ahead on Studio 360 right after this.
1:08.1	This is Studio 360.
1:10.0	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This first level of garden. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.0	This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable dog. I'd like to have the roasted chicken piece.
1:18.0	Very well done. Editing is all about timing. I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:23.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right? Studio 360.
1:28.8	With Kurt Anderson.
1:34.4	If you don't know the work of the film director Jennifer Reader,
1:37.2	a good way to get a sense of her sensibility is watching one of her earliest short films.
1:42.2	A while back, in a time not so far from this time, there was a girl.
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