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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

AFTER LOUIE — Vincent Gagliostro Interview

June 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

AFTER LOUIE — Vincent Gagliostro Interview

Vincent Gagliostro was an ideal person to ask my pop-quiz question during the second Frameline press day on June 23, 2017. The question was why arts are important in the age of Trump, and Gagliostro, whose film, AFTER LOUIE is the festival’s closing night film, is a man who has worked in many media, some… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, After Louie, AIDS, Allan Cumming, art, history, LGBTQI, protest, survivor's guilt, Vincent Gagliostro

Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical — John Fisher Interview

May 25, 2017 By Leave a Comment

Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical — John Fisher Interview

John Fisher is a busy man. Actor, playwright, and Executive Director of Theatre Rhinoceros, the longest running queer theater in the world. Simultaneously. Such a workload prompted me to ask him when he found time to sleep when we spoke on May 12, 2017. The larger subject was Theatre Rhinoceros’ production of Priscilla, Queen of… Read More »

Tagged With: ACT, African-American artists, American Conservatory Theater, amnesia, art, art and commerce, art and culture, Bohemian Grove, Charles Ludlum, commerce, David Mamet, Disco, Donald Trump, Humphry Slocombe, LGBTQ, marketing, marriage equality, musical, Priscilla’s Tim Tam Slam, queer theater, Shakespeare, The Anarchist, The Iceman Cometh, theater, Theatre Rhinoceros, transgender, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Laurie Anderson Shares the HEART OF A DOG

November 10, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Laurie Anderson Shares the HEART OF A DOG

Where oh where to start when talking to Laurie Anderson?  A performance artist, musician, actress, filmmaker, first NASA artist-in-residence, and all around great soul, she was in San Francisco to talk about her new film, HEART OF A DOG, a film that uses her dog Lola Belle’s life and death as a touchstone for a… Read More »

Tagged With: art, broken back, death, dog, empathy, FAILSAFE, home movies, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, memory, Mingyur Rinpoche, Mortality, music, NASA colorist, pets, rat terrier, rhizome, scratchy scarf, soundtrack

NASTY BABY

October 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment

NASTY BABY

It’s a toss-up which is more unpredictable:  creative impulse when given full rein, or that same impulse when it is stymied, though, perhaps one is a little that is more dangerous than the other.  The struggle, be it artistic or procreative, is the theme of Sebastian Silva’s NASTY BABY, a modern fable about family, friendship,… Read More »

Tagged With: art, Family, homelessness, LGBT, mental illness, pregnancy

William Farley and PLASTIC MAN: THE ARTFUL LIFE OF JERRY ROSS BARRISH

August 24, 2015 By Leave a Comment

William Farley and PLASTIC MAN: THE ARTFUL LIFE OF JERRY ROSS BARRISH

William Farley was a great choice to direct a film about Jerry Ross Barrish.  They are both artists who came from the working class, they both worked in sculpture and in film. It gives Farley an insight into Barrish as a person as well as an artist that others, no matter who talented, might miss. … Read More »

Tagged With: Adam Keker, art, bail bonds, bail bondsman, Bill Evans, bronze casting, dyslexia, found materials. Mal Sharpe, Free Speech Movement, Janis Plotkin, jazz musician, Jerry Ross Barrish, Mary Ashley, PLASTIC MAN, Richard Levine, Robert Ashley, Sally Shaywitz, San Francisco, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, sculpture, The Center for Contemporary Music, THE OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY, William Farley

FRIDA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

FRIDA

At one point during Julie Taymor’s exquisite film, FRIDA, Diego Rivera tells Frida Kahlo that while he can only paint what he sees, she paints from the heart. And so it is as it should be that Taymor’s biopic of Frida’s life is the landscape of Frida’s heart than a straightforward telling of the events… Read More »

Tagged With: art, bisexuality, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Mexico, painting, Salma Hayak

Don Argott, Sheena Joyce & Lenny Feinberg Reveal THE ART OF THE STEAL

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Don Argott, Sheena Joyce & Lenny Feinberg Reveal THE ART OF THE STEAL

For director Don Argott and producers Sheena Joyce and Lenny Feinberg, making THE ART OF THE STEAL about the fight over the Barnes collection of early modern art was a labor of love. The resulting film plays like a political thriller. During the course of our conversation on February 15, 2010, each spoke about what… Read More »

Tagged With: African-American university, Albert C. Barnes, art, art collecting, art criticism, Barnes Collection, Cezanne, documentary, Don Argott, Impressionism, JUlian Bond, Lenny Feinberg, Lincoln University, Philadelphia, Post-Impressionism, race relations, Sheena Joyce, THE ART OF THE STEAL

Hal Hartley & Parker Posey Revive FAY GRIM

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Hal Hartley & Parker Posey Revive FAY GRIM

The only room to be found in the shared suite was the cramped bedroom, and so Hartley, Posey, and I stretched out amid my recording equipment on the bed to chat about art, politics, and the effect of eye contact on and off the screen.

Tagged With: art, cinema, director, eye contact, FAY GRIM, film, Hal Hartley, Henry Fool, indie film, movie, Parker Posey, politics, screenwriter

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