Interviews Archive for September, 2010
Digital Nation: Barry Munday
As red herrings go, it’s tough to beat castration. The title character of Chris D’Arienzo’s truly offbeat comedy, Barry Munday, undergoes just such an operation. It’s required after the father of a promiscuous teenager slams a trumpet into crotch of the two-bit, happy-hour lothario in a movie theater. Poor Barry didn’t even have time to…
Read the full article » 2 Comments »Catfish directors Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, star Nev Schulman
DP/30 – The dynamic trio of filmmaker/subjects from the Sundance sensation Catfish talk with David Poland about how and why they made the film.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Interview: The Savory Sound of Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen
Music is both architecture and pulse in Fatih Akin’s tasty, generous farcical food-com, “Soul Kitchen.” Music’s there from the start of writing the script, he tells me, as well as confessing a nasty addiction to something called “vinyl.”
Read the full article » 2 Comments »Bright Star, director Jane Campion, actor Ben Whishaw (TIFF ’09)
The complete version of this interview got lost in the shuffle. Apologies. Never too late, I guess.
Read the full article » 7 Comments »The Gronvall Files:Going the Distance from Fact to Fiction with Director Nanette Burstein
Change is good, although it’s not always easy to reinvent oneself. But New York filmmaker Nanette Burstein, a Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominee for On the Ropes (which she co-directed with Brett Morgen), doesn’t miss a step in her transition from nonfiction film to narrative features.
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