Down in Front

CURTAIN UP... it’s Film Week. We’ll be posting three archive pieces from our film issue – originally published in 2004 – plus a new article by novelist and film buff Jeremy Sheldon, ‘The Simple Art of Screenwriting’. Watch this space for Gaby Wood in Lana Turner’s bedroom, and Atom Egoyan on the documentary he will never make about musical-singer-turned-porn-actor, Dr Gonad. And so, to begin...

‘Down in Front’

Colson Whitehead, author of The Colossus of New York – once called a ‘lyric symphony’ – and lately the novels Apex Hides the Hurt and Sag harbor, turned his hand to a cinema visit for Granta’s film issue, published in summer 2004. ‘This is the part where they have sex,’ he drily observes. ‘They just met but they have a lot of chemistry and it has been foretold on the poster.’ Click on the link above to read the piece for free.

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