AltWeeklies Wire
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
Underground Filmmaker Jon Moritsugu Talks About His Move to New Mexico and His New Projectnew
The do-it-all DIY filmmaker has a body of work that floats somewhere in the artistic ether between the pop art obsessions of Andy Warhol and the trashy aesthetics of John Waters.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
07-28-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Francis Ford Coppola Talks About His Return to Smaller, More Personal Filmmakingnew
After a decade spent trying to mount a pair of costly passion projects, Coppola abruptly shifted gears and embarked on what he calls his "second career," which began with 2007's Youth Without Youth and continues with Tetro, the story of estranged brothers nursing the emotional wounds of their upbringing by a domineering orchestra conductor father.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
07-20-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola
Kathryn Bigelow Talks About Taking Risks in 'The Hurt Locker'new
Bigelow says the main idea was to simulate the "surprise and chaos and randomness" of combat. "I've never been in combat," she says. "I've never been in a war. But I think that chaos is probably pretty much unimaginable unless you've been there."
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
07-14-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Battered But Not Broken, Jean-Jacques Beineix Returnsnew
The embattled Parisian director brings a reissue, a retrospective and a project in progress.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
07-10-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jean-Jacques Beineix, drama films
David Wain Talks 'The State' and His Futurenew
A founding member of The State, whose comedy show aired on MTV from 1993 to 1995, Wain is also a member of the comedy troupe Stella (with fellow The State alums Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black) and the director of the cult classic Wet Hot American Summer.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
07-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Robert Kenner Talks Cloned Meats, Big Agribusiness and 'Food, Inc.'new
Kenner is no stranger to controversial subjects. He won an Emmy for his 2005 "Two Days in October," which examined the domestic response to the Vietnam War during the turbulent fall of 1967. Kenner runs into a even more volatile subject with his new documentary, Food, Inc., an investigate peek into America's big agribusinesses and meat and poultry industries.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
07-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cary Cronenwett's 'Maggots and Men' (Re)stages a Revolutionnew
Set in a mythologized postrevolutionary Russia but based on actual historical events, Maggots marshals early Soviet cinema, the gutter erotics of Jean Genet, and what at times seems like a transgender cast of thousands to build its case for the necessity of queer utopias.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Matt Sussman |
06-17-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
New Documentary Pays Tribute to Concert Posters Throughout the Decadesnew
Four years ago, as she was working a "cushy corporate television job," Merle Becker (former MTV staffer and founder of indie film company FreakFilms) stumbled across The Art of Modern Rock, a then newly published coffee-table book of rock posters. She says she was "blown away."
East Bay Express |
Catherine Plato |
06-17-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Woody Allen on Life, Actors, Younger Women and His 40th Filmnew
Allen's Whatever Works marks the realization of a project he first conceived in the 1970s as a vehicle for Zero Mostel, then set aside following the actor's untimely death. The result is a light comic burlesque -- a minor key but eminently pleasurable Allen confection
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-12-2009 |
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
‘The Commune' Is a Great First Film for Two Women Artistsnew
Heidi Hornbacher and Elisabeth Fies have joined the ranks of Hollywood first-time filmmakers with a horror movie as their starter flick. You could say that, instead of a "chick flick," they've made a "her-ror" movie.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
06-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Blood Shed' Brings a Little Slice of Atlantic Horror to the Worldnew
Jason Shipley's directorial debut is a 15-minute boozy gorefest that premiered at Fredericton's Silver Wave Film Festival last November. And it's been on a roll since then.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Tara Thorne |
05-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Filmmaker Looks to Connect with Witnesses to RFK's Funeral Trainnew
In June 1968, a train bearing the body of Robert F. Kennedy traveled from New York to Washington. Now Jon Blair is making a documentary about the myriad people who spontaneously lined the tracks along its route.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
05-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Stimulus Package: 'The Girlfriend Experience'new
Steven Soderbergh screens his latest film, The Girlfriend Experience, as a fundraiser for the New Orleans Film Festival. The cast includes porn star Sasha Grey, the only professional, and acting virgins who mostly hold the jobs they have in the film.
Gambit |
Will Coviello |
05-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
