Robin Wright is using his extra time at home in the midst of the pandemic to improve his knowledge of cinema.
“I think my greatest pleasure in freeing up my days is going to bed and watching a movie on the Criterion Channel,” said Wright, 54, during Cut’s “How I Get It Done” virtual panel at the Sundance Film Festival at Friday. “There are so many films that I haven’t seen, I realized … to see old films that you can’t find anywhere else.”
Wright, who is debuting “Land” at the festival, noted that Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 film, “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, really left a mark on her.
“What a great movie, and you will also see how everyone steals some of that person, some of that person,” she said, laughing. “… It is so mind-boggling to watch these films from the 1940s and say, ‘My God, now I see where that director got this idea from.'”
Actress and director Zoe Lister-Jones, who is debuting “How It Ends” at the festival and also participated in the chat, said she is updating iconic programs and films she has never been able to see.
“I’m also watching a lot of content because that’s what you do,” she joked, adding that she watched “The Sopranos” in its entirety.
“I started to enjoy writing creative nonfiction about my childhood,” she added of her downtime during the pandemic. “It’s like keeping a diary, but telling your story, which I discovered as an interesting practice and exercise to dissect things in a new way about how I got here.”