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Legendary Horror-film director Dario Argento Talks of Completing His Trilogynew
Argento took time from editing a new film to speak (in a very, very thick Italian accent) about his new film, what it's like to film his naked daughter, and to squelch those rumors that he's remaking his own Suspiria.
Metro Times |
Paul Knoll |
09-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dario Argento, The Mother of Tears
PBS Pres Paula Kerger Talks Big Bird, TV Longevity and Seizing the Momentnew
Although she is a tall woman and came to town dressed in bright yellow, she doesn't appear to be simply parroting Big Bird's obsessive optimism.
Metro Times |
Jim McFarlin |
09-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Director Steven Sebring's Link to Eclectic Rocker Patti Smith Pays Offnew
Dream of Life is not your typical rockumentary. But then again, its subject, Patti Smith, is not your typical rocker.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
09-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steven Sebring, Dream of Life
Tim Robbins Meshes Drama and Humor in 'The Lucky Ones'new
The film has two big surprises. One is the humor and the other is the presence in the cast of Tim Robbins, one of filmdom's most vocal antiwar advocates.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
09-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Neil Burger, The Lucky Ones
Mickey Rourke Returns as 'The Wrestler'new
However you term it, The Wrestler, at least where Rourke is concerned, almost didn't happen at all. Although Aronofsky and screenwriter Robert D. Siegel developed the project with Rourke in mind, they found it impossible to secure even the modest financing required for a sometimes explicitly violent wrestling movie starring an actor who hadn't headlined a major motion picture since the first George Bush was in office.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
09-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Nothing's Sacred for Bill Maher and Larry Charlesnew
Maher and Charles discuss fundamentalism, the apocalypse, and their new faith-challenging
doc, Religulous.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
09-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Why It was Hard to Keep a Straight Face on the 'Ghost Town' Setnew
Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear sit down next to each other in a hotel room at the Four Seasons, surrounded by journalists, and within 10 seconds it's like Kinnear has vanished.
NOW Magazine |
Norman Wilner |
09-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ghost Town, David Koepp
Twelve Movies in Twelve Monthsnew
At the start of 2007, Cring, a Hendersonville filmmaker, announced an insanely ambitious scheme called the Extra/Ordinary Film Project.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
09-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: filmmakers
New Doc Puts a Spotlight on Rubik's Cube Enthusiastsnew
Originally determined to make a mockumentary about the role the Rubik's Cube played in an old family story, Robert LeBlanc decided to take a more sincere approach when that project fell through.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Hillary Titley |
09-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Conspiracy Hits the Big Screennew
Were the 9/11 hijackers just patsies in an elaborate plan hatched by the New American Century to shore up support for a beleaguered president on the heels of a highly contested election? Nope. But Jarek Kupsc thinks so, and he's made a movie about it.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Meet Fatih Akin, the Most Exciting German (and Turkish) Director of His Timenew
Akin is the young director whose breakthrough film Head-On was an international hit three years ago.
INDY Week |
Godfrey Cheshire |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Edge of Heaven, Faith Akin
A Poolside Chat with Matthew McConaugheynew
In real life, McConaughey wears a shirt. Or at least he was wearing one the other day, sitting opposite the poolside bar atop the Hard Rock Hotel, a pinch of Skoal planted between his cheek and gums.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Coens Tighten the Beltwaynew
Burn After Reading, the subversive new comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, prowls around the corridors of CIA headquarters at Langley, but it isn’t ideological either, unless you consider a despairing cackle an ideology.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
09-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
A New Documentary Chronicles a Family's Everyday Life in a Mexican Border Townnew
While the emotional connection between the filmmaking couple and their subjects made Intimidad possible, it also created dilemmas. Redmon and Sabin struggled to find a balance between documenting intimacy and maintaining respect for their subjects' privacy.
The Texas Observer |
Lydia Crafts |
09-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Kelley Baker Channels His Rage Into His Moviesnew
Baker has made a career of complaining. But his chief gripe is that, while making a movie is easier than ever before--just find a digital-video camera, a boom mic, and some friends--the only way to get that movie seen is through a system of festivals and studios that only bet on sure things and big names.
Baltimore City Paper |
Aaron Mesh |
09-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
