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SIMCHAS AND SORROWS — Genevieve Adams Interview

July 20, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SIMCHAS AND SORROWS — Genevieve Adams Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. I loved the first scenes of Genevieve Adams’ SIMCHAS AND SORROWS so much that I worried what followed would have a hard time living up to it. In it, the heroine, Agnes, during her Catholic schoolgirl days, questions a nun about Jesus’ own religious upbringing, and how best… Read More »

Tagged With: big personalities, casting, compassion, conversion, David Foster Wallace, Holocaust, Palestine, rom-com, salted quinoa straws, Yom Kippur sermon

THE LURE — Tomas Leach Interview

June 12, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE LURE — Tomas Leach Interview

I say it at least once a day. Technology is our friend, but it’s not our >good< friend. And so it was on the morning I was all set to talk with Tomas Leach about his doc, THE LURE.  Leach was more than gracious, and very patient as I worked through the difficulties that led… Read More »

Tagged With: American Southwest, Bonnie Prince Billy, Calexico, casting, Cormac McCarthy, Forrest Fenn, high desert, preconceived notions, Santa Fe, treasure hunt, Will Oldham

LITTLE MEN — Ira Sachs & Theo Taplitz Interview

August 12, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LITTLE MEN — Ira Sachs & Theo Taplitz Interview

I’m still not convinces that Theo Taplitz >isn’t< a well-preserved 40-year-old masquerading as an adolescent. Still too young to vote, he’s already made two short films that are whimsical, yet solid (click here for links), and given a performance in Ira Sachs’ LITTLE MEN that is wise beyond his years. We started my interview with… Read More »

Tagged With: audition, box boy, cassette, casting, father-son, gender, LaGuardia High School, Ozu, sexuality, The 400 Blows, The World of Henry Orient, Walkman

HOLES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HOLES

There is an attitude among some filmmakers that children’s films should be anything but sophisticated, rather, they should be simple in theme and execution and excruciating for anyone over the age of five. Not just the flicks for little kids, either, as evidenced by such recent mush as WHAT A GIRL WANTS. And for those… Read More »

Tagged With: Andrew Davis, author, book to film, buried treasure, casting, cinema, curses, desert, digging holes, director, fantasy, filling in holes, film, HOLES, lizards, Louis Sachar, movie, mystery, narrative, poisonous lizards, racism, screenwriter, Shia LeBeouf, sun screen, UNDER SIEGE 3, YA literature, young adult

Andrew Davis and Louis Sachar’s Perfect HOLES

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Andrew Davis and Louis Sachar’s Perfect HOLES

If I had had any doubts about HOLES being one of the big summer films of 2003, they were all put to rest by the audience reaction the film and its makers received at one of the two press screenings that I went to. The audience was packed with kids of all ages who adored Louis… Read More »

Tagged With: Andrew Davis, author, book to film, casting, cinema, digging holes, director, fantasy, filling in holes, film, HOLES, lizards, Louis Sachar, movie, mystery, narrative, screenwriter, Shia LeBeouf, sun screen, UNDER SIEGE 3, YA literature, young adult

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