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Kenneth Lonergan, the writer and director of You Can Count on Me (2000) | art by Tony Stella

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of You Can Count on Me's release, Kenneth Lonergan sits down to talk at length about the experience of making his first movie.

The Blighted Language of Kenneth Lonergan

Matt Brennan·

Issue 41: Margaret

Mark Ruffalo and Anna Paquin in MARGARET | Fox Searchlight

Lonergan's project, in both You Can Count on Me and Margaret, is to crystallize the exact moment at which our emotions run aground on the shoals of their expression, made somehow smaller, shabbier, by the very act of admitting them.

Kenneth Lonergan on You Can Count on Me

The Blighted Language of Kenneth Lonergan