He was introduced to the films by Black, co-director of one of the movies.ĭemme carried prints of Invasion of the Aluminum People, Speed of Light, Fair Sisters, Mask of Sarnath, Leonardo Jr., and The Death of Jim Morrison home to New York City to present them at the Collective for Living Cinema. In the spring of 1981, Demme was enjoying his first mainstream success with Melvin and Howard when he visited Austin and fell in love with the short films made by our tightknit group of film students and punk rockers. I had been invited to the set by fellow Fort Worth expat Bill Paxton, who was a production assistant on and bit player in the film. Demme had been a hero of mine since 1975, when I saw him directing Cloris Leachman in Crazy Mama on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
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