AltWeeklies Wire
The Worst of Times vs. the Best of Timesnew
A reviewer who found this year's films uninspiring debates with a colleague who asserts it's been an incredible year for movies.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman and Felicia Feaster |
12-30-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
A South African Crime Legend Gets His Duenew
In Johannesburg, Canadian filmmaker Bronwen Hughes scrapped her original script for Stander and wrote a more subtle story about an ambitious career cop who turned from police work to a life of crime.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
12-08-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Psychomagical Encounternew
In life, as well as film, Chilean-born director Alejandro Jodorowsky is avant-garde.
SF Weekly |
John Mecklin |
12-06-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Man Behind the Man Behind the Moog Synthesizernew
By the end of this documentary, you realize that although electronic music has been pegged as distant, impersonal or even alien -- because of unique sounds generated by the Moog -- the deeply spiritual man behind the machine sees his creation as nothing less than a device to channel human emotions.
Phoenix New Times |
Michele Laudig |
12-06-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hans Fjellestad, Moog
Sex, Fear and Videotapenew
John Cameron Mitchell talks about Hedwig, his upcoming work, Short Bus, and the recent election.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
11-20-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mindy Cohn's Diarynew
While playing plus-sized Natalie on "The Facts of Life," Cohn was, in short, an insightful, ebullient everywoman who was there for, well, every other woman on the show. A cursory glance at the text of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones books reveals that this is just the sort of woman Bridget is supposed to be.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-17-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Behind the Scenes Superstar
Walter Murch has won Academy Awards for both film and sound design. He worked on The Godfather, The Conversation, English Patient, Cold Mountain, Being Julia. And he's famous for being a good talker too.
Pacific Sun |
Mal Karman |
11-12-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Vision and Focusnew
First-time screenwriter Joe Conway merges his narrative voice with filmmaker David Gordon Green's visual poetics – with a little help from Terrence Malick.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-12-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Undertow
Death and Loss Play Key Roles in Marc Forster's Finding Neverlandnew
It's not hard to see how Marc Forster might identify with J.M. Barrie, both in shared loss and in using creation as an antidote. "It's also letting go of grief," says Forster of the creative process. "And also embracing it in a different way. It's sort of like a more enlightened way."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-11-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Finding Neverland
Cinema So Verité the Cops Rush to the Setnew
Gary Davis has carried the title of guerrilla filmmaker with pride since he was 10 years old, when he started shooting films when on a rundown urban corner of New Jersey. He relishes the danger of shooting scenes that, if he doesn't get in and out quickly, could end in his arrest.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric Alan Barton |
10-26-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Killing You Slowlynew
Filmmaker Jim Van Bebber's latest low-rent foray into sex, drugs, and ultraviolence hasn't got a laugh in it -- unless some twisted wackos out there find amusement in the dismemberment of Sharon Tate.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
10-25-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Tarnation' Sensationnew
Jonathan Caouette's inexplicably perfect documentary of growing up gay in Texas is the astounding new face of do-it-yourself moviemaking.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
'Primer' Timenew
Writer/director/co-star Shane Carruth's sci-fi verite, Primer, snagged the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2004. His debut film is as densely layered with resonant ideas about the nature of time, friendship, and the process of invention as it is with the minutiae of the engineering field its characters inhabit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Primer, Shane Carruth
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
What in Tarnation: Will Success Spoil the Filmmaker Savant?new
A macabre family album excavated from the deepest recesses of memory, Tarnation is Jonathan Caouette’s personal history reconstituted as a maelstrom of images and ideas about mental illness, mother love, homosexuality and other ties that bind.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
10-19-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
