AltWeeklies Wire
Elizabeth Olsen Breaks Out in Emotionally Disturbing Martha Marcy May Marlenenew
Traveling across the U.S. to promote her new film Martha Marcy May Marlene with first-time feature filmmaker Sean Durkin, actress Elizabeth Olsen said she was always shocked when moviegoers decide to share their personal experiences with her about cults.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
11-17-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Martha Marcy May Marlene is Creepy, Sexy, and Very Stylizednew
A semi-sinister little film with the eerie, sunlit ambiance of headspace thrillers like Rosemary's Baby or the original The Stepford Wives, Martha Marcy May Marlene presents a young woman trapped between two worlds.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-16-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Martha Marcy May Marlene
Filmmaker Stephen Cone premieres The Wise Kidsnew
For Stephen Cone, church has always been a part of life. The son of a Baptist minister, he remembers going there three times a week for 18 years. In the same breath, Cone is also a self-proclaimed lifelong lover of film, with movies and religion playing an equal role in his youth.
Charleston City Paper |
Ryan Overhiser |
11-14-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Stephen Cone, The Wise Kids
NASA-Funded Halsey Exhibit Explores Lunar Historynew
Galileo created the first telescope in the 17th century, and now, 400 years later, we've got Google Moon, an application that allows users to get a live satellite view of the lunar surface. In 2009, scientists found water on the moon, and College of Charleston Professor Cassandra Runyon was one of the lead scientists in the discovery.
Charleston City Paper |
Amy Stockwell Mercer |
11-10-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Redux Gets a Fresh Injection From New Director, Studio Spacenew
Redux is breathing. It's not just the gallery installation by Liz Miller that greets you at the door, a delicate, yet somehow aggressive creation of felt, foam, and paper that resembles fire-breathing dragons. It's more to do with the children running to their painting class, with the art that is everywhere, and the artists who are calmly going about their daily work of creation. Redux just might be the heart and heartbeat of Charleston's living art scene, and you can feel it as soon as you step through the door.
Charleston City Paper |
Elizabeth Pandolfi |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Eat Me: An Invitation to a Zombienew
Local filmmaker Daniel Maldonado, 31, says that while he’s not a zombie aficionado, he has seen enough ’80s zombie cult classics and played enough Resident Evil to know in advance he could handle directing the walking dead in his first feature The Killing Strain, an independent horror film shot in south San Antonio in 2009.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-12-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Wide Angle Lunch Series Feeds the Body and the Mindnew
Working as a corporate lawyer in London, Caroline von Nathusius was troubled by the way that people would rush through the workday without taking a moment to breathe.
Charleston City Paper |
Erica Jackson Curran |
10-06-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Twenty Years Later, Julie Dash's Film Daughters of the Dust Continues to Inspirenew
It is 1902, and the Peazant family is celebrating. Black women in white dresses twirl on the white sand, bordered by blue water and blue sky, clapping hands and playing games. They are preparing to pass over to the mainland, and what's past is prologue, says Viola Peazant. The Christian missionary and cousin is returning to her family to mark the occasion, photographer in tow. Meanwhile, Nana, the matriarch, sticks to her home in the woods. She fears what may be lost when her clan migrates north without her.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
09-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Q&A: John Olivernew
The comedian talks stand-up, politics, and our inevitable Chinese overlords.
The Portland Mercury |
Andrew R. Tonry |
09-14-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Oliver, The Daily Show
Vera Farmiga Bares Her Soulnew
The actress on faith, Madonna and Mo'Nique.
The Village Voice |
Michael Musto |
08-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bill Maher is Bummednew
The comedian and Real Time With Bill Maher host on debt ceilings, Super Congresses, Obama, Rick Perry and more.
Sacramento News & Review |
Nick Miller |
08-10-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Are We Doomed?new
Louisville filmmakers ponder our fate in ‘YERT’
LEO Weekly |
J. Christian Walsh |
07-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Why the Work of Efraín Gutiérrez Will Never Disappearnew
It’s easy to dismiss the films of Efraín Gutiérrez. His movies are rough, unpolished, and lacking those things cinema experts consider, well, good. If Ed Wood was “the worst director of all time,” you can almost say Gutiérrez is a Chicano Ed Wood with a political conscience — bad acting, weak writing, and lousy camera work. Gutiérrez knows it, but he smiles and takes no offense.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
How Our Lives Have Changed Since Harry Potternew
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone premiered on Nov. 16, 2001.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
07-14-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Harry Potter
The Real Lives Lost in Today’s Immigration Debatenew
Mexico City-born actor Demián Bichir laughs a bit as he gives his analysis on the current state of U.S. immigration legislation and the suggestion by some people that the government should find a way to send 11 million undocumented Mexicans back across the border.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
07-08-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chris Weitz, A Better Life
