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THE SALESMAN — Asghar Farhadi

January 28, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE SALESMAN — Asghar Farhadi

When I spoke with Asghar Farhadi during the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 14, 2016 about THE SALESMAN, one of us (me) fully anticipated that it, like his Oscar™-winning film A SEPARATION, would be nominated for an Oscar™.  Neither of us could have anticipated that when it was, in fact, nominated, Farhadi would not… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award, Arthur Miller, Asghar Farhadi, assault, Biff, crumbling building, Death of A Salesman, feminisim, Iran, obsession, Oscar, Parisa Bakhtavar, revenge, Taraneh Alidoosti, Tehran, theater, Willy Loman

TRUMBO — Jay Roach Interview

November 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment

TRUMBO — Jay Roach Interview

The fear-based manipulation as seen in TRUMBO is something that its director, Jay Roach, doesn’t see as ending with the demise of the Black List. It was one of the last things we talked about on November 12, 2015, but it may be the crux of the reason that Roach wanted to make his film about the… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award, anti-Semitism. Communism, Black List, Dalton Trumbo, exodus, fear based manipulation., Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Ten, HUAC, humanist, Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Lee Grant, Otto Preminger, SPARTACUS

Ursula Meier Finds A Brother for SISTER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Ursula Meier Finds A Brother for SISTER

Ursula Meier knew she had found her muse in Kacey Mottet Klein when she discovered him in 2008, casting him in her film HOME. When I spoke to her on October 29, 2012, we talked about his evolution as an actor, and how she managed to keep that unselfconscious quality that he had shown in… Read More »

Tagged With: 12-year-old, Academy Award, child actor, child neglect, cinema, class system, director, drama, film, Golden Swann, Kacey Mottet Klein, moral relativity, movie, narrative, neglect, petty theft, siblings, ski lodge, Swiss Cinema, Ursula Meier, writer

Jim Rash & Nat Faxon Occupy THE WAY WAY BACK

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jim Rash & Nat Faxon Occupy  THE WAY WAY BACK

Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have made a name for themselves in front of the camera by being funny Faxon on Fox’’s “Ben and Kate, and Rash as the sartorially terrifying Dean Pelton on NBC’s “Community. No surprise there, considering that they are both veterans of the L.A.-based improv troop, The Groundlings, where they began… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award, beach house, cinema, coming of age, film, Jim Rash, movie, Nat Faxon, Oscar, Steve Carrell, summer vacation, THE DESCENDENTS, water slide

Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman Consider ADAPTATION

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman Consider ADAPTATION

Frankly, I would have been disappointed if an interview with director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman hadn’t turned surreal with the first question posed. The team that brought us BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and now with ADAPTATION, a tall tale of orchid hunters and moviemaking, have their own take on reality, which makes for a refreshing change… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award, based on a true story, book to screen, Charlie Kaufman, Chris Cooper, cinema, comedy, director, Meryl Streep, narrative, neuroses, Nicolas Cage, orchid collecting, orchid hunter, orchid poaching, orchids, screenwriter, Spike Jonze, surrealism, swamp

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