Kimberly Peirce, Where Art Thou?

6Feb/070

Kimberly Peirce, Where Art Thou?

A generation of directors has gone missing, including the director of Boys Don't Cry, Kimberly Peirce:

Ms. Peirce declined a request for an interview, but a spokeswoman said that she took a long time to find material she liked well enough to make into a movie.

Ms. Peirce has had many opportunities along the way. She landed a two-year deal at New Line in 2000, which expired without a project getting off the ground. She had been slated to direct “Memoirs of a Geisha” and, later, “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” based on the book by Dave Eggers. In 2001 she spoke in interviews of spending seven months researching an unsolved murder for what was to be her next project. That movie was never made.

--Young Directors of the 1990s - Movies - New York Times