BWood
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | filmmaker |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | Bret Wood is the writer/director of the feature film Psychopathia Sexualis (2006). His first feature was the documentary Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003), which was acclaimed as "unnerving and much fun" (The New York Times) and "endlessly fascinating" (Los Angeles Times). Filmmaker Magazine called it "A Lynchian view of the nightmarish underbelly of middle America." His previous documentaries include Kingdom of Shadows (1998, narrated by Rod Steiger). He has written several books on film, including Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film (co-written with his wife, art/film critic Felicia Feaster). Wood's film-related essays have appeared in Sight and Sound, Film Comment, Positif and other publications. He also works as an editor, graphic artist and producer of classic films on DVD. He is currently developing his award-winning screenplay The Seventh Daughter. |
| Favorite Movies | (filmmakers), John Boorman, Tod Browning, Dwain Esper, John Ford, Michael Haneke, David Lean, F.W. Murnau, Erich von Stroheim, Orson Welles |
| Favorite Books | (authors), T.C. Boyle, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, William Lindsay Gresham, Horace McCoy, Patrick McGrath, Peter Matthiessen, Arthur Schnitzler, Nick Tosches, Nathanael West. |