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Matt Wolf Bridges Past and Present Youth Culture in ‘Teenage’
Interview | Bernard Boo | April 22, 2014With Teenage, filmmaker Matt Wolf chronicles the rise of the phenomenon known as the teenager from its inception around World War I and through World War II. Based on the book by Jon Savage, the film blends archival footage, reenactments, narration...
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Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller Talk ‘The Galapagos Affair’
Interview | Bernard Boo | April 10, 2014In The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, married San Francisco filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller explore the dark human history of the titular islands. Filled with deceit, jealousy, and murder, the island lore has all the trappings...
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Nick Frost Conquers Fear, Salsas Butt Off in ‘Cuban Fury’
Interview | Bernard Boo | April 8, 2014In dance-comedy Cuban Fury, directed by James Griffiths, Nick Frost plays Bruce Garrett, a former childhood salsa prodigy who was bullied out of the ballroom to never return. Now in his late 30’s, Bruce is an overweight, insecure pushover who...
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Charlie Siskel Talks ‘Finding Vivian Maier’
Interview | Bernard Boo | April 8, 2014Finding Vivian Maier, a layered documentary co-directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, pieces together the life story of the titular Chicago nanny (now deceased) by utilizing the amazing photographs she took around the city, of which there are...
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Patrick Epino Talks Becoming an Awesome Asian Bad Guy
Interview | Bernard Boo | April 4, 2014Awesome Asian Bad Guys, which screened a couple of weeks ago at CAAMFest, is an action-comedy that follows The National Film Society, a couple of Asian Los Angeles Youtubers (Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco), as they attempt to track...
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Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais Talk ‘The Raid 2’
Interview | Bernard Boo | April 2, 20142011’s The Raid: Redemption was an adrenaline-pumping, relentless martial arts movie that wowed action movie lovers and garnered a ravenous fan following. With The Raid 2: Berandal, director Gareth Evans manages to make the fight scenes even more intense and intricate this time...
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Ethan Embry and E.L. Katz Talk Dares, Blood, Guts, ‘Cheap Thrills’
Interview | Bernard Boo | March 25, 2014In first-time director E.L. Katz’s gruesome Cheap Thrills, two former high school friends (Ethan Embry and Pat Healy) run into each other at a bar. A rich married couple (David Koechner and Sara Paxton) entice the drunken buddies (both in...
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Mekhi Phfifer and Maggie Q Talk ‘Divergent’, Breaking Stereotypes
Interview | Bernard Boo | March 18, 2014This Friday, Divergent drops on the masses, looking to cultivate a the same kind of ravenous YA fan base that made Twilight and Hunger Games so goddamn bankable. (The second installment of Hunger Games I quite liked, proving these kinds of films don’t have to be...
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Cast and Crew of ‘Animals’ Speak About Never Giving Up On The Human Spirit
Interview | Dustin Jansick | March 18, 2014The story behind Animals is a brutally honest and intimate look at two young lovers who suffer from drug addiction. Based on true life experiences of David Dastmalchian, who not only co-stars in the film alongside Kim Shaw, but...
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Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice Talk About What Makes a Good Found Footage Movie
Interview | Dustin Jansick | March 17, 2014When a film has the name Mark Duplass attached to it, the film typically contains an in-depth look on human behavior with an empathic, yet slightly offbeat voice. Ergo, my interest is peaked whenever Duplass is involved with a...
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Chiemi Karasawa Shines a Light on Stage Legend Elaine Stritch
Interview | Bernard Boo | March 11, 2014Chiemi Karasawa didn’t know much about Elaine Stritch before shooting Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, an authentic, honest look at the day-to-day life of the 86-year-old Broadway icon. Stritch, who’s also had a sprawling film career (she was in A Farewell to...
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Arie Posin Talks Seeing Double in ‘The Face of Love’
Interview | Bernard Boo | March 11, 2014In Arie Posin’s The Face of Love, we follow a widow named Nikki (Annette Bening) who meets a man named Tom (Ed Harris) who looks, impossibly, exactly like her dead husband. Memories of her husband come rushing back to her...
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Emily Pilloton Talks Inspiring Students Through Design in ‘If You Build It’
Interview | Bernard Boo | February 25, 2014If You Build It, an uplifiting documentary directed by Patrick Creadon (I.O.U.S.A., Wordplay), follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller, who in 2010 moved to Bertie County, the poorest county in North Carolina, to set up Studio H, a forward-thinking...
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SFFS Artist in Residence Sebastian Silva Talks The Gift of Spontaneity, ‘Magic Magic’
Interview | Bernard Boo | February 24, 2014“My biggest fear is for my mind to control me and not the other way around,”Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Silva told us at FilmHouse in San Francisco, when asked about the inspiration behind his 2013 psychological creeper Magic Magic, starring Juno...