AltWeeklies Wire
Daniel Baldwin’s San Antonio Mission: TV, Film and Sobrietynew
“My sobriety is nobody’s business,” he told the Current during an August 25 meeting at the Bauhaus Media Group studios, where he’s in post-production of the film he’s directing, Wisdom. The movie was shot in San Antonio, except for a scene in Malibu, California (“I’ll sell it as Corpus,” he laughs). He gave me the exact day of his sobriety (which I won’t share) but, after telling me “there’s a lot of lies that were written about me,” insists he won’t talk about it.
Yet, little by little, he opened up and told us about how inspiring the Wisdom journey has been for him and, hopefully, others.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-30-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Daniel Baldwin, Wisdom
Roman Polanski doc a winner at Jewish Film Festnew
On September 26, 2009, Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski took a plane to Switzerland, where he was going to receive an award from the Zurich Film Festival.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-07-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Interview with 'The Invisible War' director Kirby Dicknew
Q: The Invisible War premiered at Sundance last year, shortly after news broke on San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base scandal.
San Antonio Current |
Joy-Marie Scott |
01-30-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Q&A with director Sacha Gervasinew
For filmmaker Sacha Gervasi, reinvention has been both an inevitable professional trajectory and a personal test of will.
San Antonio Current |
Jeff Meyers |
12-05-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hitchcock
Martial arts way of life leads RZA to 'The Man with the Iron Fists'new
Introduced to Hollywood in the late '90s, RZA — Grammy-winning hip-hop MC/producer and co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan — thought he would try something different when filmmaker Jim Jarmusch asked him to compose music for his new action-drama Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. It was not a gig he thought would lead to anything.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
10-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
At age 80, multi-award winner Rita Moreno still vocal about challenges Latinas face in Hollywoodnew
Fifty years after actress Rita Moreno earned an Academy Award for her role as Anita del Carmen in West Side Story, the Puerto Rico-born performer is still the only Latina to ever win an Oscar in an acting category.
San Antonio Current |
KIKO MARTÍNEZ |
09-20-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Actor Thomas Haden Church can't blame much on squirm-worthy Killer Joenew
Academy Award-nominated actor Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) doesn’t think violence in films should be held responsible for violent things that happen in real life.
San Antonio Current |
KikO MARTÍNEZ |
08-23-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Matthew McConaughey dressed more likely to impressnew
It might be a tired subject, but there's a running joke in Hollywood that actor Matthew McConaughey is allergic to shirts.
San Antonio Current |
KikO MARTÍNEZ |
08-23-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Killer Joe
Director Bart Layton confronts "The Chameleon"new
Getting to the truth wasn't going to come easy for director Bart Layton. He knew this even before he turned on the video camera and gave serial imposter Frédéric Bourdin a platform to do what he does best.
San Antonio Current |
Kiki Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Director Patricia Riggen: rebellious teen to Latina filmmakernew
After introducing herself to audiences in 2007 with the heartwarming drama Under the Same Moon (La misma luna), director Patricia Riggen, 41, returns to the big screen with a coming-of-age film about the conflict between a rebellious teenage daughter and her mother in Girl in Progress.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-11-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
SXSW Film Fest pulling in four proud San Antonio filmmakersnew
The road to the South by Southwest Film Festival stretched through San Antonio once again this year.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
03-09-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Actor Jason Mewes on podcasting with Kevin Smith, beating addictionnew
At 37 years old, actor Jason Mewes, best known as the talkative half of the drug-dealing duo Jay and Silent Bob (Clerks, Chasing Amy), admits he no longer has the stamina to rollerblade long distances or the metabolism to scarf down pizza without remorse like he could in his 20s.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
02-01-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Sideways' director dumps a mess of problems on George Clooneynew
Alexander Payne has this thing for mid-life crises. Whether pitting an exasperated high-school teacher against a scheming overachiever in his 1999 breakthrough Election, or dropping Jack Nicholson and a naked Kathy Bates in a hot tub for About Schmidt, or setting a pair of wine snobs loose in his last movie, 2004's Sideways, the writer-director doesn't see people in their 40s as well-adjusted men and women contributing to society.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
11-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
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
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
