AltWeeklies Wire
'The King of Texas' Looks at Eagle Pennell's Brilliant, but Wasted, Lifenew
The proto-indie filmmaker's highs and many lows are chronicled in this new documentary.
The Texas Observer |
Steve McVicker |
05-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Phil Donahue Discusses His Doc About a Paralyzed Iraq War Vetnew
Body of War puts a human face on the armed forces with the coming-home story of a 25-year-old private returning from Iraq, whose badge of courage is the scar he wears on his spine.
New Haven Advocate |
Chandra Niles Folsom |
05-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Errol Morris Casts Light on the Torture Chambers of Abu Ghraibnew
Standard Operating Procedure is perhaps the most thorough record to date of one of the lowest points of American foreign policy.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
05-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fatih Akin on His Complex 'The Edge of Heaven'new
For most filmgoers, the network narrative has become a crashing bore. But the Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin's latest film reinvigorates this screenwriting ploy, breathing new life into something I'd written off for dead.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
Chris Carter Reopens The X-Filesnew
Carter has been tight-lipped about plot details but says I Want to Believe picks up where things left off.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
04-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bob Teitel Brings His Moviemaking Success Home to the Old Neighborhoodnew
A late February rain melts the snow that blankets Humboldt Park. Gray and wet, yet bustling with pedestrians. It's the first day above freezing in weeks, and the neighborhood is starring in its first major motion picture, called, fittingly, Humboldt Park.
Chicago Newcity |
Ed M. Koziarski |
04-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Helen Hunt in the Director's Chairnew
After laboring for years both as costar and a producer of Mad About You, she has had a sporadic, post-tube life on the big screen, with 1997's As Good as It Gets the obvious highlight. And almost since then she has been trying to turn Then She Found Me into a movie.
The Georgia Straight |
Staff |
04-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Harold and Kumar' Star John Cho on the Stoned Sequelnew
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay's politics are as muddled as the baked-out minds that will appreciate it best. But the very existence of a new lowbrow comedy focusing on the U.S. government's racist persecution of innocent people should give the Republicans more fright than Obamamania.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
04-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'An Elementary Education' Takes On School Choicenew
The new documentary asks, "Is the need for school choice greater than the need for community?"
Boulder Weekly |
Dana Logan |
04-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Harold & Kumar Fellas Talk Politics and False Ladypartsnew
Neil Patrick Harris included!
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
04-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
In 'Sarah Marshall,' Jason Segel Doesn't Forget the Sex Scenesnew
Segel isn't your standard movie star: He's goofy and tall and built not particularly well. But in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, he has multiple sex scenes with multiple partners, including Kristin Bell and Mila Kunis. Maybe that's because Segel, in his first leading role, also wrote the screenplay.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
04-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Talking 'Blueberry Nights' with Wong Kar-Wainew
Directors rarely indulge in wholesale revision of their work; so-called director's cuts going back to a baggier version of what's in the theaters, yes, but a wholesale rethinking, no. But Wong Kar-Wai seems to have done it on almost every project he's tackled.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
04-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-Wai
Director Ira Sachs Gets Back to His Memphis Rootsnew
Sachs, who was raised in East Memphis, where his mother still lives, celebrates the local debut of Married Life, which pairs the indie-identified filmmaker with a heavyweight Hollywood cast
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
04-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
In Defense of Keanu Reevesnew
Think about it: Everyone makes fun of you, but everyone has also seen everything you've ever been in.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
04-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: humor, Keanu Reeves
Slavers in the Familynew
How Katrina Browne confronted her ties to America's original sin, and why the nation should follow her lead.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
04-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
