AltWeeklies Wire
Raiders of a Lost Artnew
DIY filmmakers Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos are the men who were the kids behind the painstaking, backyard remake of the first Indiana Jones flick.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
12-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
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
Horse & Scissorsnew
Bryant "HairKutt" Johnson's attempt to quit heroin cold-turkey is the subject of an hourlong documentary that elicits tears, cheers and laughs.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Scholle, Best Social Documentary at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, Curtis Elliott and Ben Scholle, Great Smoky Mountains, HairKutt, Maurice Reese Bradley, St. Louis International Film Festival., top documentary feature honors at Cinema St. Louis' Independent Filmmaker Showcase
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
Anything Can Happennew
Jon Favreau and Dax Shepard discuss Zathura.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
Starting From Somethingnew
After an eight-year break, screenwriter Shane Black is back with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which has taken him in a different direction.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Shane Black
The Good Soldiernew
Novelist Anthony Swofford says he won't play politics with Jarhead.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
11-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Truman Shownew
Capote star Philip Seymour Hoffman discusses reviving the creator of "In Cold Blood" and steering clear of caricature.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pick Your Brainnew
Missouri-made zombie comedies gnaw their way through flyover country.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
11-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
An Interview with Anthony Swoffordnew
Times have changed, and the wars with them, and the erstwhile college teacher who wrote the book Jarhead takes a suitably long view of the literature of war.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jarhead, Sam Mendes
Peeved Reevesnew
At an assembly-line celebrity interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, Thumbsucker star Keanu Reeves tells journalists as little as possible.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hammett Meets Hughesnew
Writer-director Rian Johnson discusses high school noir and the Austin Film Festival highlight Brick.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Brick, Rian Johnson
Inside The Marginsnew
Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan unravels the stubborn knot of aberrant human behavior in his latest look at people society doesn't typically like to look at.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Little Animation Company That COULDnew
After struggling uphill in the difficult yet potentially profitable world of computer animation films, Wild Brain is on the cusp of success.
SF Weekly |
Ryan Blitstein |
10-18-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
From Kiev, With Lovenew
Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz jumps from stage diving to scene stealing in Everything is Illuminated.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
