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Interview: Dannis and Bobby Hackney of A Band Called Death
Before Rancid, before the Sex Pistols, before the Ramones, there was Death. A band called Death, to be more specific. In the ‘70s, a few years before the Ramones changed music, three brothers—David, Dannis, and Bobby Hackney—formed Death, and...
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Interview: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders of The Out List
Director/photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders has pointed his camera at some of the most famous and important people in the past 50 years—Barack Obama, Alfred Hitchcock, Hilary Clinton, Jimmy Carter—and his portraits have been featured in the Museum of Modern Art...
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Interview: PJ Raval and Dennis Creamer of Before You Know It
Director PJ Raval’s Before You Know It is a beautiful, grounded documentary highlighting a very specific group of Americans—elderly gay men. Seniors are desexualized and largely neglected by society already—when I see seniors in public, the people around them...
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Interview: Amy Acker & Alexis Denisof of Much Ado About Nothing
For years Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, The Avengers) has hosted Shakespeare readings at his Los Angeles home with his best friends, who all just happen to be actors he’s worked with on various projects over the...
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Interview: Chloe Robichaud of Sarah Prefers To Run
Sarah Prefers To Run was one of my favorite films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, so I was fortunate to get a chance to sit down with director Chloe Robichaud to discuss some of the details about her...
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Interview: Nick Robinson, Moises Arias, Gabriel Basso of The Kings of Summer
In Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ The Kings of Summer (which screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival), young guns Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, and Moises Arias play teenage boys who break free from their overbearing parents, build a kick-ass house...
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Interview: Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy of Before Midnight – Part 2
In part 2 of our extended, in-depth interview with director Richard Linklater and star Julie Delpy talk about the third film in their Before romance saga, Before Midnight. We discuss the stresses of pulling off Before Midnight’s extra-long-takes, the...
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Interview: Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy of Before Midnight – Part 1
In 1995’s, we met Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, respectively) on a train in Vienna and watched them fall in love as they explored the city in Before Sunrise. Nine years later (in real-world time and...
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Interview: Sarah Polley of Stories We Tell
Director Sarah Polley took time to sit with us at the San Francisco International Film Festival to talk about her critically acclaimed, hyper-personal documentary, Stories We Tell, in which she excavates her late mother, Diane’s life story by interviewing...
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Interview: Onata Aprile, Scott McGehee, David Siegel of What Maisie Knew
In What Maisie Knew, we witness a custody battle gone sour through the eyes of the innocent center of contention, Maisie, played by the brilliant 7-year-old Onata Aprile. Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan star as Maisie’s bitter, bickering parents,...
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Interview: Jeremy Teicher of Tall as the Baobab Tree
Tall as the Baobab Tree was one of my favorite films at the San Francisco International Film Festival, a serene, beautiful story about a Senegalese family torn between modernity and tradition. Director Jeremy Teicher took some time to chat...
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Interview: Michael Ling of Edward Lee’s the Bighead
In Michael Ling’s adaptation of Edward Lee’s gory-as-hell novel The Bighead, he channels the gritty, uncompromising exploitation horror films of the ‘70s. He’s made a short film version of the story, which acts as a sampler of the unrelenting...
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Interview: Matthew Pond & Kirk Marcolina – The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
When Matthew Pond was looking for a subject to possibly make a documentary about, he stumbled upon the story of a jewel thief in her 70s. Doris Payne, an African-American who grew up in a poor segregated mining town,...
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Interview: Antonio Campos – Simon Killer – Part 2
In Part 2 of our interview, we talk to Mr. Campos about his fascination with adolescence as subject matter, teaching Brady Corbet to moan, his use of sound and mirror images in storytelling, Chantal Akerman’s influence on his work,...
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