"Like, 'Wait, I smell gender fluid.' 'I'd like a little gender for my coffee.' " By now, more than a dozen Hood By Air employees were in the hot tub, and the gathering looked at once absurd and utopian: creative directors splashing and laughing alongside their junior associates.
I bring this up again today because the director of Splash Damage (they developed Enemy Territory), Paul Wedgwood, recently complained about the role that Metacritic, and numerical game reviews in general, has in the development process.
Jerome Lau, one of the directors at Splash, says it was inspired by the experience of a friend.
All of the "Comeback" writers and directors are splashed across today's comedy landscape.
Having not made a feature film for some time, this versatile director made a splash in competition last year with his oddball noir movie "Killer Joe".
Call Me By Your Name (Dir: Luca Guadagnino) Gay romance from the Bigger Splash director, about a boy who falls in love with a visiting academic.
And as Nick Johnson, a former director of Urban Splash, points out, Manchester's Northern Quarter, its buzzing nightclubs and its biannual International Festival all show that its culture has not been totally sterilised by property developers.
Most of the new films are in the festival's Premieres strand, and will see, among others, Cate Blanchett, Jack Black and A Bigger Splash director Luca Guadagnino pitching up in Park City, Utah.
Urban Splash Director Nathan Cornish said it was a unique building "set within the context of a famous post-war masterplan".
After incriminating photos of Kristen Stewart with married director Rupert Sanders were splashed in Us Weekly, the "Snow White and the Huntsman" actress has admitted to cheating on boyfriend Robert Pattinson in a heartfelt statement to People.
The first female director to make a splash in this field never thought of herself as a feminist.
