AltWeeklies Wire
Kids in the Hall Preview Tour, Plan New Movienew
Kevin McDonald from the Kids in the Hall discusses the troupe's latest tour, and plans for a new Kids in the Hall movie.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
04-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Scorsese Shines a Light on the Stones
On a cold Sunday at Manhattan's Palace Hotel, Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Charlie Watts joined a throng of anxious journalists so we could pepper them with questions. Needless to say, Marty and the Stones looked marvelous, laughed a lot, and cracked wise to everyone's delight.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
03-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light
David Gordon Green Loves a Good Mistakenew
As Green debuts Snow Angels, a small-town tragedy starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale, he's preparing for the August release of Pineapple Express, a big-budget stoner comedy produced by Knocked Up's Judd Apatow.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
03-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
Olivier Assayas on Getting Carried Awaynew
For Boarding Gate, Assayas chose Hong Kong as Sandra's final destination, as a way of shooting in -- and paying homage to -- the city that has influenced his own filmmaking.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
03-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Boarding Gate, Olivier Assayas
Zak Penn's Poker Jokersnew
Much like his previous outing as a director -- the hilarious 2004 Incident at Loch Ness -- Penn's new film, The Grand, is an improv mockumentary in the Christopher Guest mold.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
03-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Michael Haneke Will Be Your Mirrornew
Don't blame him if you don't like what you see.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
03-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Funny Games, Michael Haneke
With New Film Project, Professor Griff Takes on African-American Media Stereotypesnew
Griff's most famous role in that long career is minister of communications for Public Enemy, but Griff (born Richard Griffin) has made his own name in the world as well, separate from but always in pursuit of the same agenda that drove Public Enemy: empowering black people, countering media dissembling, fighting the powers that be.
Artvoice |
Geoff Kelly |
03-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Talking 'Married Life' with Ira Sachs and Chris Coopernew
The four friends in Sachs' mix of drama, dark comedy and a couple of scenes of genial whimsy, are lucid about some things but reserved about others.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
03-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ira Sachs, Married Life
Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinventionnew
Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
03-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Long Road Back to the Big Screennew
After some early success, screenwriter and director Steven Conrad learned the hard way that living can make your art more interesting.
Chicago Reader |
Ed M. Koziarski |
03-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steven Conrad, The Promotion
Gus Van Sant on 'Paranoid Park'new
"When you're 16, that's the most important time in your life," he says. "It might not be a time when you get much done, but you're influenced by everything that's come your way. By 25, you're going to be much more frozen in your ways."
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
03-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
Documentary Warns of an Educational Dividenew
A visit to India and China inspired venture capitalist Bob Compton to explore what he saw as a worrisome divide between the quality and intensity of the education American students are receiving relative to students in those countries.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Two Million Minutes
Stefan Ruzowitzky Challenges Holocaust Dogmanew
Rather than the nobly suffering merchants, artists and family men who fill the barracks of many a Holocaust drama, the counterfeiters of The Counterfeiters are a motley crew of scam artists and petty thugs under the supervision of the wily Russian-Jewish forger Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
02-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
I'm Will Ferrell?new
The SNL alum and Semi-Pro star on fame, his alternate-universe job, and why he sucks (or did) at coordinating art appraisals.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
02-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kent Alterman, Semi-Pro
Pete and Re-Petenew
The intimate documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song re-introduces the pioneering musical radical just when we might need him the most.
IND Media |
Michael Tisserand |
02-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
