Before Matthew Modine became an actor and starred in movies like Vision Quest and Memphis Belle, he dreamed of becoming a painter. It was the back-up career he never needed after a solid 30-year career of memorable roles on film, television, and the Broadway stage. But he never lost his artistic eye, which proved useful in other creative pursuits, beginning with his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on 1987′s Full Metal Jacket. Modine documented that complicated production experience with still photography, and working with the esteemed director of 2001 and A Clockwork Orange inspired him to try his own hand behind the camera.
- 6/3/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
In the short film I Think I Thought, actor-writer-director-producer Matthew Modine portrays Joe, a seemingly average guy who harbors a troubling addiction. The seven-minute ironic fable is based on a joke someone once told Modine about a man with a "thinking problem." The story is spare on dialogue, unfolding almost like an early silent film, enhanced by a contemporary musical score composed by jazz artist Ben Wolfe. Filmed in New York, I Think I Thought played at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. Then it was released May 13 on iTunes, in a package with another Modine short, the controversially titled (but highly patriotic) To Kill an American. Modine, who recently completed an arc as Mary-Louise Parker's boss on the Showtime hit Weeds and has appeared in such films as Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, financed these shorts himself. He made them, in fact, for very little money — using digital video technology...
- 8/25/2008
- by Mark Dundas Wood
- backstage.com
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