![]() ![]() Set in the African-American community of the fictional crossroads town of Harmony, Ala., in 1950, "Honeydripper" devotes much of its time to spaces that don't even qualify as neighborhoods: a struggling backwoods juke joint, a cotton field, a train depot, an Army barracks. But I'm kind of interested in what's in that neighborhood." ![]() "Say you're walking from here to there, and there's this neighborhood, and people say, 'That's a funky neighborhood, you gotta avoid that neighborhood.' I feel that's what most movies do, what most generic movies do - 'That's just gonna complicate our story if we get more real.' Part of your job as a Hollywood screenwriter is to simplify, simplify, simplify. Said Sayles, who brings his new movie, "Honeydripper," to the Indie Memphis Film Festival tonight: Filmmaker John Sayles ought to like Memphis, a city where the distance between zones of affluence and neglect, uniformity and eccentricity, and perceived danger and safety often can be measured with just a few footsteps. ![]()
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