Robin Wright uses his extra time at home in the middle of the pandemic to deepen his knowledge of the film.
“I think my guilty pleasure in freeing up my days is to go to bed and watch a movie on Criterion Channel,” Wright, 54, told Cut’s virtual panel The How I Get It Done on Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. “There are so many movies I’ve never seen that I make … to see old movies that you can’t find anywhere else.”
Wright, who premiered “Land” at the festival, noted that Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 film “The Man Who Knew Too Much” really left its mark.
“What a great movie you will see and how everyone steals a little from this person a little from this person,” she said with a laugh. “It’s so threefold to watch these 1940s movies and say, ‘God, now I see where the director came up with that idea.'”
Actress and director Zoe Lister-Jones, who debuts “How It Ends” at the festival and also chatted, said she has caught up with iconic shows and movies she has never seen.
“I also watch so much content because that’s what needs to be done,” she joked, adding that she watched “The Sopranos” in its entirety.
“I started liking writing non-creative fiction about my childhood,” she added of her pandemic downtime. “It’s like journaling, but telling your story, which I found an interesting practice and exercise to dissect things in a new way about how I got here.”