Bernard Boo
667 articles written by Bernard Boo
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Frank Pavich Talks ‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’
In anticipation of Jodorowsky’s Dune being released on Blu-ray and digital on July 8th, we spoke with director Frank Pavich about his gripping documentary, which explores the eponymous French-Cilean director’s doomed attempt to bring his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 sci-fi novel...
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Paul Haggis on ‘Third Person’, Unstoppable Love (Part 2)
Writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash, In the Valley of Elah) spoke with us in San Francisco about his new film, Third Person, which follows three interlocking stories of love, taking place in New York, Paris, and Rome. A labor of love, the...
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Way Too Indie Hangout – Best of 2014 (So Far) Part 2
We’re already halfway through 2014, so that means it’s time to take a look back over the last 6 months and see what’s stood out. As a preview for our staff list of the 15 best films of 2014...
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Paul Haggis on ‘Third Person’, Unstoppable Love (Part 1)
Writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash, In the Valley of Elah) spoke with us in San Francisco about his new film, Third Person, which follows three interlocking stories of love, taking place in New York, Paris, and Rome. A labor of love, the...
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A Coffee in Berlin
Like a lost relic from the French New Wave, A Coffee in Berlin dazzles with its melancholic black-and-white imagery and a jazzy soundtrack in line with Woody Allen’s New York ballads, following law school dropout Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) as he...
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Andrew Rossi On ‘Ivory Tower’, the Future of Higher Education
In Ivory Tower, director Andrew Rossi investigates the soaring costs of tuition and other problematic changes in the American higher education system. Students have been increasingly drowned in student loan debt over the past few decades, and with some of...
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David Zellner on Blurred Reality, ‘Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter’
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter follows a driven Japanese office assistant (Rinko Kikuchi) who, believing a buried treasure from the Fargo is real, travels to the snow-covered Midwestern American city to claim the bounty for herself. While making her way...
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Way Too Indie’s Secret Stash #2
In this installment of Secret Stash, New York filmmaker J.P. Chan shares with us some of his favorite obscure, hard-to-find films that haven’t gotten the love or recognition they deserve. J.P.’s debut feature, A Picture of You, begins a one...
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The Fault in Our Stars
Based on the wildly popular John Greene novel, The Fault in Our Stars, directed by Josh Boone, has a can’t-fail combination of gifted, pretty, rising young stars and an invincibly sympathetic, sob-inducing story of big dreams and heartache that will, without a...
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A Picture of You
A Picture of You is a sharp, mischievous family drama from filmmaker J.P. Chan, who wrote, directed, and produced his genre-less feature debut, which opens on June 20th at AMC Loews Village 7 in New York City. While the...
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Michael Tully Talks ‘Ping Pong Summer’
Michael Tully’s Ping Pong Summer is a tidal wave of ’80s nostalgia that follows a shy, hip-hop and table tennis loving kid named Rad Miracle (Marcello Conte) on a family vacation in Ocean City, Maryland. Rad meets a quirky sidekick named Teddy...
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Chris Mason Johnson On ‘Test’, The Camera as a Moving Body
A multi-layered character portrait set in 1985 San Francisco in the early days of the AIDS panic, Test follows Frankie (Scott Marlowe), a young dancer torn between his sexual cravings and fear of contracting a mysterious, deadly disease. Director Chris Mason Johnson’s sensuous,...
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Anthony Chen Talks ‘Ilo Ilo’, Protecting His Humility
Singaporean director Anthony Chen is riding quite the wave of success with his feature debut, Ilo Ilo. The film won the Camera d’Or at Cannes 2013 and garnered many more accolades and awards following its smashing premiere. The film follows a strained...
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J.P. Chan and Cast Talk ‘A Picture of You’ (Part 2)
In A Picture of You, a brother and sister (Andrew Pang and Jo Mei) return to their rural childhood home in Pennsylvania to sort through their recently deceased mother’s belongings. They discover shocking photos that change their perception of their...
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Cold in July
In Jim Mickle’s chameleonic noir thriller Cold in July, an adaptation of the cult novel by Joe R. Lansdale, Michael C. Hall takes perhaps the most drastic departure in his career, playing Richard Dane, a timid, unremarkable picture frame store owner...