Geek To Me Radion #254: ‘Like a Dirty French Novel’ with Writer/Director, Mike Cuenca

Oct 14, 2021

Writer/Director Mike Cuenca (https://twitter.com/MikeCuenca_) talks about his movie “Like a Dirty French Novel”, which is a noir film made up of 5 different chapters. Check out the trailer https://youtu.be/-O23vC1GoHI

0:00 SEGMENT 1: Mike Cuenca (https://www.instagram.com/mikecuenca_/) talks about how wild it is to see his film on the big screen at the legendary Chinese Theater in Hollywood, making a movie in only a week, giving the actors just their specific scenes, whether the movie turned out exactly the way he pictured it, his inspirations for the film, and whether he would let someone else direct one of his scripts.

12:10 SEGMENT 2: Mike Cuenca (https://linktr.ee/mikecuenca) talks about having a shared universe for all of his movies and his feelings on crowdfunding.

19:28 SEGMENT 3: Mike Cuenca talks about submitting his films to festivals, the rewatchability of his movies, and filming “Boys About Town” over many years to show the characters aging in real time.

27:42 SEGMENT 4: Mike Cuenca talks about creating the music for his films as he edits and why he recommends people check out the double album version of his film “I’ll Be Around”.

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