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2024 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival — Lexi Leban Interview

July 21, 2024 By Leave a Comment

2024 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival — Lexi Leban Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Lexi Levan has been the Executive Director of the Jewish Film Institute, presenter of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, since 2011, but before that she, herself, was a filmmaker. When we spoke via Zoom on July 7.2024, the first thing I asked her was how that experience… Read More »

Tagged With: Aliyah, Amichai Lau-Lavie, art and politics, Ash Hoyle, cancel culture, disability justice movement, Ferne Pearlstein, freedom of expression, Gaza, Jacob Applebaum, Janis Ian, Jay Rosenblatt, Jewish identity, Jim LeBrecht, Judy Gold, Judy Heumann, Julie Cohen, Lisa D’Apolito, queer rabbi, Reality Winner, RETURN FROM ANOTHER PLANET, SABBATH QUEEN, Sand DuBowski, Sapir College, Shari Lewis, SILVER’S UPRISING, Susanna Fogel, THE RIDE AHEAD, TORAH TROPICAL

SALTBURN — Emerald Fennell Interview

December 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

SALTBURN — Emerald Fennell Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Click here for the KMR review of SALTBURN. When I spoke to Emerald Fennell on October 10, 2023, about her wicked black comedy, SALTBURN, the trick was to avoid spoilers. I think we succeeded, with only a tantalizing reference to the suitably absurdist finale that features Barry Keoghan… Read More »

Tagged With: art and politics, consistency, fashion victim, illusion of spontaneity, Intimacy Coordinator, nudity, Polly Bennett, psychotically specific, State of desire, stately country home, voyeurism

NEVER LOOK AWAY – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Interview

February 21, 2019 By Leave a Comment

NEVER LOOK AWAY – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Before I started recording my interview with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on January 14, 2019, we reminisced about the last time we had met. It was just before his film, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, had beaten Guillermo del Toro’s odd-on favorite for the Best Foreign Language Oscar™, PAN’S… Read More »

Tagged With: art, art and politics, Avant-garde, Caleb Deschanel, cinematography, Exhibition of Degenerate Art, Gerhard Richter, Nazi, Oscar nominee, sound design, Trump, war crimes

BLINDSPOTTING — Daveed Diggs & Rafael Casal

July 17, 2018 By Leave a Comment

BLINDSPOTTING — Daveed Diggs & Rafael Casal

Click here to listen to the interview.  Click  for the full review of BLINDSPOTTING. When I spoke to BLINDSPOTTING’s co-stars/co-writers Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal on July 12, 2018, I decided to start the conversation with one of the things that struck me most about their film, which was the enormous compassion it shows for… Read More »

Tagged With: art and politics, class, Dolby Atmos, gentrification, Oakland, race, racism, snap judgments

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