A few years ago, director Alex Holdridge broke up with his girlfriend, crashed his car and found himself jobless in a strange town. And things went from bad to, well,
superbad when he discovered that premise of his 2001 debut film,
Wrong Numbers-- which he'd relocated from Austin, Texas, to Los Angeles to pitch to studios-- was eerily similar to a certain Judd Apatow-produced 2007 hit. But now the 29-year-old is rebounding with an autobiographical film about, well, rebounding: the smart, sexy, black-and-white gem
In Search of a Midnight Kiss, released Aug. 1 by IFC.
Paste recently talked with the obsessively chatty Holdridge, for whom memoir includes flipped cars,
Craigslist, the forlorn architecture of downtown L.A., and a fundamentally romantic heart.