# John Crowley and film *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Aug 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *17 Aug 2000, 13:50* > At 07:20 AM 8/17/00 -0400, alga wrote: > I think I can enlarge on that. Remember that Crowley has a day job too. > Unlike that of most novelists, it involves writing. He is a specialist > in providing narrative to documentary films, a job that involves a good > deal of analysis. He told me that he seems to hold a niche in working > with women filmmakers, who are often working with minuscule budgets > against great odds. Is Crowley still doing this? I had gotten the impression from some conversation that he wasn't writing films, but had retired to spend time with his daughters (one of whom, I also seem to recall, has a crippling health problem). Am I completely off-base? If so, has he done any documentaries more recent than _The Gate of Heavenly Peace_? I've read the script to that one, and quite liked it. I've actually seen _The World of Tomorrow_, about the 1939-40 World's Fair, and it's staggeringly brilliant, and very, very Crowley. ``` Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at ungames.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://www.nyrsf.com ``` ---