AltWeeklies Wire
'Directed by Charles Burnett' Recalls a Legendnew
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 21), TCM will reaffirm its reputation for exceptionally idiosyncratic, film-savvy programming when it airs Killer of Sheep and a slate of Burnett's short films: The Horse, My Brother's Wedding, When It Rains and Several Friends.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Charles Burnett
Billy Bob Thornton: Rocket Mannew
The Astronaut Farmer star soars in whatever role he pilots.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Getting Offnew
Athens' James Ponsoldt talks about his debut film.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: James Ponsoldt, Off the Black
U.N. General Returns to Rwanda in Shake Hands with the Devilnew
Peacekeeper Romeo Dallaire documents the Rwandan genocide through interviews and personal experience.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Director Tackles Teen Pregnancy in New Filmnew
Director Todd Solondz looks and acts pretty much like you'd expect the architect of some of the ickiest, misanthropic films on the indie scene to look and act.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-05-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Palindromes, Todd Solondz
The Worst of Times vs. the Best of Timesnew
A reviewer who found this year's films uninspiring debates with a colleague who asserts it's been an incredible year for movies.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman and Felicia Feaster |
12-30-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Death and Loss Play Key Roles in Marc Forster's Finding Neverlandnew
It's not hard to see how Marc Forster might identify with J.M. Barrie, both in shared loss and in using creation as an antidote. "It's also letting go of grief," says Forster of the creative process. "And also embracing it in a different way. It's sort of like a more enlightened way."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-11-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Finding Neverland
Mira Nair Spins Thackeray's Classic Heroinenew
Nair's multifaceted work has often focused on outsiders, from the Bombay strippers in her 1985 documentary India Cabaret, to the Cuban exiles living in Miami in The Perez Family. It thus seemed almost inevitable that Nair would one day turn to Vanity Fair, which she's loved since she first read it as a 16-year-old growing up in Orissa, India.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-26-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mira Nair, Vanity Fair
Mario Van Peebles Follows in his Father's Footsteps With Baadasssss!new
Three decades after Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song became an instant cult classic, Melvin's son, actor and director Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City, Posse), has made a tribute and expose of the long road to making Sweet called Baadasssss!.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Baadasssss!, Mario Van Peebles
