Billy Wirth - Director
"I LO-OVE directing!"
Billy's answer to Julie Brown when she asked him "Do you prefer directing to acting." ---Sundance 2001
"MacArthur Park," thesp Billy Wirth's feature directing debut, belies its arduous five-year production history with a rare balance of concision, sympathy and brute realism." --- Variety 1/24/2001
"Wisely, Wirth's direction --- which is confident yet self-effacing, reaching for stylized bravado only to amplify the characters' drug-fogged viewpoints --- refuses to let us off the hook with "money shot" pyrotechnics, delivering all eventual carnage in brief, blunt strokes. While chain-reaction catastrophes are duly grim, pic's terse morning-after epilogues do allow some residual hope to survive, however tenuously. " --- Variety 1/24/2001
"-- MacArthur Park, a tale of crack addicts in the famed L.A. park, could have been a standard junkie movie. But credit director Billy Wirth with hitting the rhythms of homeless life, and praise Thomas Jefferson Byrd (Get on the Bus) for a soulful central performance." ---Film.com 1/24/2001
"Actor Billy Wirth (Body Snatchers, The Lost Boys) makes a terrific directorial debut with this acutely observed urban drama, which boasts a gallery of sharp performances, a fine visual alertness and remarkable tonal control: his film manages to confront potentially grim subject matter without either euphemizing it or wallowing in it." --- Seattle Film Festival 5/10/2001
"As a filmmaker,I was in search of capturing the moment and letting the truth reveal itself"... states Director Billy Wirth, "Homeless people have a life and a story to tell. I wanted to make a film that could show the homeless and addiction in a non-judgmental way... Offical MacArthur Park Official Site 2001
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