Likewise, a dead man sets the plot of "Paint It Black" in motion, only this time, the corpse in question offed himself, turning the rest of the movie over to the ladies - mostly his chain-smoking girlfriend Josie (Alia Shawkat), a grungy artist's model who dresses like a cheap hooker and lives in hipster squalor, surrounded by curbside-rescue furniture and other thrift-store finds. Metaphorically, because the first movie she directed, Paint It Black, is hitting theaters in. Amber Tamblyns directorial debut, Paint It Black, is adapted from Janet Fitchs novel of the same name. In "White Oleander," a teenager's life was set adrift after her mom went to prison for murdering her boyfriend. When I get actor and director Amber Tamblyn on the phone on Monday morning, she has her hands full. First-time feature director Amber Tamblyn sparked to Janet Fitch’s big, bruising novel Paint It Black the very first time she read it. That's how "Paint It Black" reads as well - unapologetically coarse at times, but gleaming with insights - and Tamblyn has tried to achieve the same effect on screen. punk scene in the 1980s, will have its world premiere at LAFF on June 3. Fitch, whose "White Oleander" offered four talented blondes a chance to act their guts out 15 years ago, finds beauty in white trash, the way a bric-a-brac artist might transform old junk into something delightful. Paint it Black, which Tamblyn adapted from Janet Fitch’s novel about the L.A. As directorial debuts go, Amber Tamblyn's "Paint It Black" is kind of a mess, but then, so are its characters, which makes the film's raw, off-kilter style somehow right for the material, which began as a Janet Fitch novel.
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