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Interview: Chloë Sevignynew
On acting, freaks, nerd roles, the end of Big Love, and why she doesn't want to be any more famous than she is
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
01-14-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Interview: William Arnettnew
Interview with Wil Arnett of "Running Wilde."
Boston Phoenix |
Ryan Stewart |
09-21-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Trading Baltimore for Atlantic Citynew
An interview with Michael K. Willaims of Boardwalk Empire.
Boston Phoenix |
Ryan Stewart |
09-21-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Duplass Brothersnew
The Cyrus writer-directors keep it simple.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-22-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Chat With Bobcat Goldthwait, the Jean Renoir of Sicko Humornew
Goldthwait, who parlayed his wild-haired-screamer persona into a zillion comic-relief roles on screens big and small in the eighties, has spent this decade behind the camera. World's Greatest Dad, starring old friend Robin Williams, draws forth from the fertile manure of deviant practices some tender blossoms of understanding.
Boston Phoenix |
Betsy Sherman |
09-03-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Judd Apatow on the Making of His 'Citizen Kane'new
The director talks about what it's like casting his preteen daughters in a comedy with so many penis references, why comedians are such dicks and his hard-on for Steve Martin.
Boston Phoenix |
Lance Gould |
07-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Has Kathryn Bigelow Made the 'Apocalypse Now' of Iraq?new
Although everyone makes a point of director Kathryn Bigelow's gender and height and good looks, what's germane is that even if she were short and had bushy eyebrows like Martin Scorsese, she still would be directing action pictures like no one since Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone. With her latest, The Hurt Locker, maybe she'll start getting the recognition she deserves.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
07-09-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Harvard's UFOlogistnew
A visit to the site of an alien sighting in Zimbabwe prompted Harvard Medical School psychiatrist John E. Mack's life-long interest in UFOlogy. It was work that didn't sit particularly well with many of his colleagues.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
06-10-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Star Is Porn: Adult-Film Star Sasha Grey Makes Her Mainstream Debutnew
Sasha Grey is barely 21, but already she has 150 feature films to her credit. True, her films have titles like Cum Fart Cocktails 5, Gang Bang My Face, and Grand Theft Anal 11, but she doesn't believe that diminishes her accomplishments.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
05-14-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Crawford': An Online History Lessonnew
David Modigliani's self-made documentary about G.W.'s adopted Texas home town is the first full-length release for Hulu.com.
Boston Phoenix |
Julia Rappaport |
10-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Simon Pegg's Radioactive Risenew
The Shaun of the Dead star on losing friends, alienating people, and wanking off to Gillian Anderson.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
10-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Werner Herzog Ponders the Last Place on Earthnew
Speaking to the legendary German filmmaker is like speaking to God -- a crazy and pessimistic God, perhaps, but one capable of making divine films.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
07-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hidden in Plain Sightnew
Director Tom McCarthy based his new film, The Visitor, on first-person accounts from detainees in limbo.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
04-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Visitor, Tom McCarthy
Playing the Facts Against the Fiction of '21'new
"The reality is that while they captured some things really well, the actual storyline is changed quite a bit," says MIT house-beater Jeff Ma.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
03-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 21, Robert Luketic
Who I Amnew
A brief interview with Paris Hilton, in which it is revealed, "So I have, like, thousands of shoes." Then again, we asked.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
02-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
