This is just some of the music that plays constantly inside my head, the colors of my internal palette, that bleeds through all my work, and specifically, informed Paint It Black. We live in the creative products of our civilization no less than we live in a house on a street in a city in a country at a certain time in history. In May 2017, a film based on the novel, directed by Amber Tamblyn and written by Tamblyn and Ed Dougherty, starring Alia Shawkat and Janet McTeer, is slated for release by Imagination Films Worldwide.įrom Janet: Here are the works that informed Paint It Black (ran in September 2006 issue of Poets and Writers) Despite a fierce mutual enmity, the two women find themselves drawn into an eerie relationship reflecting equal parts distrust and blind need. Compounding her grief and rage is Michael’s pianist mother, Meredith Loewy, who returns to her native city with the news of her only son’s death. “What happens to a dream when the dreamer is gone?” is the central question of Paint It Black, the story of the aftermath of Michael’s death, and Josie’s struggle to hold on to the true world he had shared with her.

Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, actress in student films, thinks she’s found her chance at real love and entre to a greater world in Michael Faraday-artist and Harvard dropout, son of a renowned concert pianist and grandson of a legendary film composer–until the day she receives a call from the Los Angeles County Coroner, asking her to identify her lover’s body. The aftermath of a suicide, set in 1980 punk rock LA.

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