Author Susan Ray

Susan Ray

Susan Ray is a writer and the president and creative director of The Nicholas Ray Foundation. Sheoversaw the restoration of her husband's singular last film, We Can't Go Home Again, and made a documentary, Don't Expect Too Much, about how Ray's film was made and his relationship with his students. She's now completing a novel-memoir and launching the third film of three in the Ray Centenary Project, ACTION!, a master class with Nicholas Ray in filmmaking as a way of life. Previously she introduced and edited I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies (University of California Press, 1993) and has published a number of shorter pieces on film and pilgrimage.

To the Viewer: On Nicholas Ray’s We Can’t Go Home Again

Susan Ray

March 2013

Feature Articles

It’s taken almost four decades to bring you Nick’s last full-length film We Can’t Go Home Again, and not for lack of trying. Why so long? We couldn’t find the funds. We didn’t need much compared to what most mo...