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Interview: Spencer McCall and Jeff Hull of The Institute
Interview | Bernard Boo | October 3, 2013(Source: Getty Images) In The Institute, the new documentary directed by Spencer McCall, we’re given a glimpse into the world of “The Games of Nonchalance”, an urban-exploratory alternate reality game that took place back in 2008 throughout the hilly...
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Interview: Jim Mickle of We Are What We Are
Interview | Bernard Boo | October 1, 2013After directing Stakeland and Mulberry Street, two indie horror films that are slowly building cult followings, director Jim Mickle is back with his third film, We Are What We Are (a remake of Jorge Michel Grau’s 2010 film of...
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Interview: Stacie Passon of Concussion
Interview | Bernard Boo | September 30, 2013In Concussion, first-time writer-director Stacie Passon gives us a glimpse into the doldrums of lesbian suburbia and how a bored housewife (Robin Weigert), awakened to her unfulfilling malaise by her son (who conks her in the head with a...
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Interview: Robin Weigert and Jonathan Tchaikovsky of Concussion
Interview | Bernard Boo | September 30, 2013With Concussion, first-time writer-director Stacie Passon gives us a glimpse into the doldrums of lesbian suburbia and how a bored housewife (Robin Weigert), awakened to her unfulfilling malaise by her son (who conks her in the head with a...
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Interview: Erik Matti of On the Job
Interview | Bernard Boo | September 26, 2013Filipino director Erik Matti’s new crime thriller On the Job (my review) is based on a real-life Filipino scandal in which government officials used prisoners as hitmen, convincing prison wardens to release them for a day to carry out political...
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Interview: Megumi Sasaki and Dorothy Vogel of Herb and Dorothy 50X50
Interview | Bernard Boo | September 24, 2013Herb & Dorothy 50X50 (our review) follows the titular legendary art collectors as they set up the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, an unprecedented sharing of their world-class personal collection of conceptual art pieces...
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Interview: Haifaa Al-Mansour of Wadjda
Interview | Bernard Boo | September 18, 2013Haifaa Al-Mansour’s new film, Wadjda, is the first movie in history to be filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia, and it’s doubly amazing that the film is helmed by a woman in a country that’s segregated women from men for...
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Interview: Ninetto Davoli
Interview | Bernard Boo | September 17, 2013This past weekend in San Francisco, the U.S. tour of the Pier Paolo Pasolini Film Series, a collection of all of the director’s films restored gorgeously on 35mm prints, moved, shocked, and rattled the Bay Area community just as...
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Interview: Mike Flanagan of Oculus
Interview | C.J. Prince | September 13, 2013Last Sunday TIFF’s Midnight Madness program unveiled the world premiere of Oculus. Mike Flanagan, whose last film Absentia was a great understated horror film, finds himself working with a bigger budget and cast this time around, including Doctor Who’s...
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Interview: David Fitzgerald, Founder of the Atheist Film Festival
Interview | Bernard Boo | September 9, 2013The Atheist Film Festival, a one-day San Francisco event now in its fifth year, is hitting the Bay Area again this Saturday, September 14th at the Roxie Theater with an all-day lineup of films designed to celebrate and explore...
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Interview: Jacob Vaughan of Bad Milo!
Interview | C.J. Prince | August 28, 2013Seeing that WTI favorites Jay and Mark Duplass are executive producers on Bad Milo! might make people think they’re in for something similar to their small-scale dramas, but they’d be dead wrong. Bad Milo!, the writing and directing debut...
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Interview: Eugenio Derbez of Instructions Not Included
Interview | Bernard Boo | August 28, 2013Hailing from Mexico City, Eugenio Derbez is one of the most prominent and beloved figures in Mexican television and cinema today, and one of the most recognizable actors to Spanish-speaking Americans. He’s in the process of crossing over and...
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Interview: Destin Cretton and Brie Larson of Short Term 12
Interview | Bernard Boo | August 27, 2013Director Destin Cretton (I Am Not a Hipster) and Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The United States of Tara) sat down with us in San Francisco to chat about their new, festival-darling film Short Term 12. The...
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Interview: Morgan Spurlock of One Direction: This is Us
Interview | Bernard Boo | August 26, 2013From the imminently popular indie fast-food-horror documentary Super Size Me to more recent docs like Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, an exploration of the fanaticism behind the San Diego comic book convention, and Mansome, a film that asks...