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Taiki Waititi’s BOY

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Taiki Waititi’s BOY

Taika Waititi returned to his actual hometown, and his actual childhood home, to make BOY. The story, set in 1984, is fictional, but when I talked to him on March 15, 2012, one of the things we talked about was the reality behind the fiction. It’s not just the eponymous character’s abiding devotion to ice… Read More »

Tagged With: 11-year-old, 1984, BOY, childhood, director, father-son relationship, Maori, Michael Jackson, narrative, New Zealand, Taiki Waititi, writer/director

STEP UP to Channing Tatum

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

STEP UP to Channing Tatum

Channing Tatum is game for a challenge, whether starring in a film that requires serious dancing, or tackling a multi-city press tour. When I talked to him on July 21, 2005, his boyhood on the bayou seemed like a fun place to start before moving on to the dangers (to him) of dancing with a car,… Read More »

Tagged With: bayou, Channing Tatum, childhood, cinema, dance, dancing with a car, drama, film, growing up, Jenna Dewan, movie, multiple takes, narrative

Fredi M. Murer on VITUS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Fredi M. Murer on VITUS

Fredi Murer, a courtly gentleman given to performing deft sleight-of-hand for his interviewers, tapped his own childhood when he created VITUS, both the film and the character. Murer himself was not a genius in the classroom, as he tells it, but he did have a creative streak that landed him in all sorts of usual scrapes. When we talked… Read More »

Tagged With: childhood, cinema, creative streak, creativity, director, drama, film, movie, music, narrative, pianist, piano, Swiss Cinema, Switzerland

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