Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris met when they were students at UCLA, and their long collaboration, personally and professionally, explains why they have such a rapport as filmmakers, and why they have a tendency to finish each others’ sentences. When I spoke to them on July 23, 2012, the film in question was their second… Read More »
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris & LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Johnathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are partners is life (as in married) and in business (as in successful makers of commercials for umpteen years). Maybe it took such a combination to bring LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE to the screen without slighting either the family angle of the story, or the sly visual vocabulary used to portray… Read More »