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'Road' Rulesnew
An interview with Red Road director Andrea Arnold.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
05-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Andrea Arnold, Red Road
Talent Poolnew
Stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Paul Giamatti and director/actor M. Night Shyamalan discuss each other's contributions to Lady in the Water.
Boston Phoenix |
Gary Susman |
07-20-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Casting the Man of Steelnew
Director Bryan Singer explains how the latest Superman, played by newcomer Brendan Routh, can be vulnerable (to a point) but not gay.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
'Puffy' Piecenew
Stars Mark Duplass and Kathryn Aselton discuss why this little film isn't creating a bigger stir at Sundance.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
05-31-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jay Duplass, The Puffy Chair
Sooner or Later?new
United 93 director Paul Greengrass discusses scheduling the movie's release.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
04-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Greengrass, united 93
Scarlett's Lettersnew

Match Point co-stars Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers lob a few in this interview.
Boston Phoenix |
Gary Susman |
01-05-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
Giving Good Offensenew
Sarah Silverman, the nice Jewish girl out shopping at Loehmann’s with her mother meets Jenna Jameson, says she goes for laughs but gets them by way of shock.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
11-29-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Liam Lynch, Jesus Is Magic
Palestine Now?new
Even though there's an implied pacifist message in his film Paradise Now, the Nazareth-born filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad says he wants audiences to make up their own minds about how Palestinian rights might be achieved.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
11-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hany Abu-Assad, Paradise Now
The Good Soldiernew
Novelist Anthony Swofford says he won't play politics with Jarhead.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
11-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Teen Spiritnew
Fifty years after his death, James Dean remains an icon of adolescent angst.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Bronski |
10-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Crash Coursenew

Director Paul Haggis and an ensemble of talent -- including actor Matt Dillon -- tackle issues of diversity in a post-9/11 world in their new film. The Phoenix interviews Haggis and Dillon about Crash.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
05-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Backward And Forward And Doomed?new
Todd Solondz wants it both ways with Palindromes.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
05-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Wine's Worldnew
In Mondovino, filmmaker and former sommelier Jonathan Nossiter finds culture, corruption, danger, and hope in the bottom of a wineglass.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
04-19-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jonathan Nossiter, Mondovino
From TV to Stage: Claire Danes at the Toronto Film Festivalnew
TV-trained Claire Danes tackled formidable thespian challenges when she was cast as a 17th century Englishwoman who breaks a sexual barrier.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Naked Lunchnew
In an interview, director John Waters outlines a powerful case for the end of repression and the restoration of genuine fun, laughter and bad taste.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-24-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews