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EMPIRE OF LIGHT — Sir Roger Deakins Interview

February 22, 2023 By Leave a Comment

EMPIRE OF LIGHT — Sir Roger Deakins Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Sir Roger Deakins (he was knighted in 2021 for his contributions to the art and craft of cinematography) has achieved iconic status as a cinematographer, so much so that when San Francisco, where I live, experienced a day when the sun did not come out due to local… Read More »

Tagged With: 1917, Aeroflex, BLADE RUNNER 2049, BLADERUNNER 2049, cinematography, digital, film, Leica, SICARIO, Skyfall, Sydney Opera House, tracking shots

YAKUZA PRINCESS — Vicente Amorim Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

YAKUZA PRINCESS — Vicente Amorim Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke to Vicente Amorim by Zoom on August 29, 2021, it was to talk abut his latest film, YAKUZA PRINCESS, a high-energy, fiendishly plotted martial arts fest starring MASUMI in her feature film acting debut. She plays a young woman living in Sao Paulo who discovers… Read More »

Tagged With: Bleach bypass, Brazil, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, cinematography, Danilo Beyruth, graphic novel, Gustavo Hadba, katana, moral relativism, silent film, Yakuza

THE RIGHTEOUS — Mark O’Brien Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Click here to listen to the interview. Mark O’Brien is best known as a Canadian Screen Award-winning actor (GOALIE, CITY ON A HILL, HALT AND CATCH FIRE, MARRIAGE STORY, and BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE to name a few of his credits), but for THE RIGHTEOUS he wrote the script as well as directing… Read More »

Tagged With: absolution, black & white, Catholicism, cinematography, confession, faith, grief, guilt, Justin Chon, New Foundland

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Interview

October 23, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Interview

It’s taken a while for Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s consideration of how electricity lit up the 19th century, THE CURRENT WAR, to finally make it to the big screen. This, ahem, illuminating story of the struggle of science, ego, and commerce was originally slated for a 2017 release, but became stuck in limbo when its distribution company,… Read More »

Tagged With: 1893 World’s Fair, 19th century, alternating current, candlelight, Chung-hoon Chung, cinematography, direct current, George Westinghouse, Gilded Age, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison

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

FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL

January 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment

FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL

Click here to listen to the interview. Full disclosure, my sister, when she was 12, was in a film with Gloria Grahame.  It was a pretty forgettable horror film, and they had no scenes together, but it made for some nice small talk with Paul McGuigan before we settled down to our conversation about FILM… Read More »

Tagged With: Barbara Broccoli, based on a true story, cinematography, coincidence, Elvis Costello, Eve Stewart, externalizing memory, Gloria Grahame, Jamie Bell, Margaret Thatcher, memoir, memory, Paul Turner, privatization, rear-screen projections, romance, synchronicity, tap shoes, Urszula Pontikos

LUCKY — John Carroll Lynch Interview

October 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

LUCKY — John Carroll Lynch Interview

When I spoke with John Carroll Lynch by phone on September 19, 2017, one of the things I asked him about was choosing a topic for his directorial debut that our culture prefers to ignore. We started, though, with something remarkable about Stanton as an actor, the peculiar light that shines from his eyes, despite… Read More »

Tagged With: Aging, cinematography, directorial debut, five longevities, mariachi, Mortality, old age, smoking, The Walking Dead

FARE — Thomas Torrey Interview

March 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FARE — Thomas Torrey Interview

The first thing I asked Thomas Torrey when I spoke with him by phone on February 23, 2017, was whether shooting his film, FARE, in three days, and entirely within a car, was necessity or personal challenge. Once that was out of the way, we went on to talk about the odd sort of intimacy… Read More »

Tagged With: agnostic, C. S. Lewis, cinematography, coincidence, infidelity, Kunal Rajan, Madeleine L’Engle, moon roof, mystery, R.C. Walker, ride-share, sound design, suspense, The Screwtape Letters, theology, Wormwood

DARK NIGHT — Tim Sutton Interview

February 13, 2017 By Leave a Comment

DARK NIGHT — Tim Sutton Interview

During the course of Tim Sutton’s DARK NIGHT, a television the background airs a report on the Aurora shooter who opened fire in a cinema during a screening of THE DARK KNIGHT, killing some and wounding more. When I spoke to him by phone on February 8, 2017, I asked him why that incident, in… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema shooting, cinematography, guns, Helene Louvart, military family, non-political, non-professional actors, PINA, violence

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