Robin Wright uses her extra time at home during the pandemic to brush up on her film knowledge.
“I think it’s my guilty pleasure to take the days off, get into bed and watch a movie on Criterion Channel,” said Wright, 54, during The Cut’s “How I Get It Done” virtual panel at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday. “There are so many movies that I haven’t seen that I realize … to see old movies that you can’t find anywhere else.”
Wright, who premieres “Land” at the festival, noted that Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 film “The Man Who Knew Too Much” had really left a mark on her.
“What a great movie, and you also get to see everyone stealing a little bit from this person a little bit from this person,” she said with a laugh. “… It’s so trippy to look at these 1940s movies and say, ‘Oh my god, now I see where that director got that idea.’ ”
Actress and director Zoe Lister-Jones, who debuts ‘How It Ends’ at the festival and also participated in the chat, said she has caught up with iconic shows and movies she’s never been able to see.
“I watch so much content too, because that’s the thing to do,” she joked, adding that she’s fully watched “The Sopranos”.
“I liked to start writing creative non-fiction about my childhood,” she added of her downtime during the pandemic. “It’s like writing in a journal, but telling the story of yourself, which I’ve found an interesting exercise in dissecting things in a new way about how I got here.”