hello? I forgot my mantra

Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín Matte has a movie called Jackie coming out.





The 40-year-old director's first English-language movie, it world-premiered at the Venice Film Festival September 7. 


Deadline Hollywood says Jackie "focuses on the days immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy from...[the] widow's perspective."




Asked if the movie is a biographical picture, Larraín says he doesn't think so:  "It is an approach to something that is fascinating to us.  ...I believe she was someone incredibly mysterious; one of the most unknown known people."









It's told from Mrs. Kennedy's point of view as she shares some memories with a reporter at Hyannis Port (in real life, the reporter was Teddy White, for Life magazine -- the conversation took place about a week after the President's death)....




The scenes in Jackie do not go in chronological order.




Reading that, I got inspired:  Annie Hall is done the same way -- in non-chronological order.  This weekend, I'm going to watch that, study it, and make notes of each scene, and then -- which order the scenes would be in, if you rearranged it and put it in chronological order.


I'm not sure what I will learn about Story-telling, from this exercise, but it will be something....








Jeff Goldblum, 1975, in Annie Hall -- making the "I forgot my mantra" phone call during a California party


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