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WILDLIFE — Paul Dano Interview

November 9, 2018 By Leave a Comment

WILDLIFE — Paul Dano Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. I started my conversation with Paul Dano with the obvious question, what was it about Richard Ford’s book of the same name that made him want WILDLIFE to be his feature film debut. As with all his answers, Dano replied thoughtfully. Even moreso when we moved on to… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, Carey Mulligan, collaboration, Diego Garcia, flawed characters, New York Film Festival, Paul Dano, Richard Ford, tone poem, Zoe Kazan

ALL NIGHTER — Gavin Wiesen Interview

March 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

ALL NIGHTER — Gavin Wiesen Interview

I spoke with Gary Wiesen by phone on March 24, 2017, the day his film, ALL NIGHTER, opened in San Francisco. It’s his first comedy, but briskly executed with a true feel for not just the humor, but also the underlying pathos of a father seeking out his estranged daughter with the help of her… Read More »

Tagged With: Alec Puro, Annaleigh Tipton, banjo, bluegrass, Bob Seeger, club scene, collaboration, comedy, film score, Gavin Wiesen, hipster, Los Angeles, midlife crisis, missing daughter, nightlife, odd couple, Reece Miller, sound mix

LA LA LAND — Damien Chazelle & Justin Hurwitz Interview

December 15, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LA LA LAND — Damien Chazelle & Justin Hurwitz Interview

I had the distinction of being the first interview for writer/director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz on LA LA LAND press tour. Not just in San Francisco, but nationally. It was, I joked, a heavy responsibility. It was not the only first for them that day, as noted later in the conversation. The pair… Read More »

Tagged With: choreography, collaboration, Fred Berger, J.K. Simmons, Justin Horowitz, lyrics, MGM musicals, musicals, Sundance, THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT, UMBRELLAS OF CHEROURG, WHIPLASH

DON’T THINK TWICE

July 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

DON’T THINK TWICE

At one point in Mike Birbiglia’s DON’T THINK TWICE, a character opines that your 20s are for hope, and your 30s are for realizing how dumb that hope was.  Yet this finely observed tragi-comedy of art, commerce, and finding happiness takes a more compassionate view of its characters, an improv group that is having the… Read More »

Tagged With: Alan Zweibel, Brooklyn, collaboration, Georgetown, Gillian Jacobson, Improv, Jorma Taccone, Keegan-Michael Key, Lena Dunham, pizza, rules of improv, success, The Lonely Island, Upright Citizens Brigade

Mike Birbiglia Says DON’T THINK TWICE

July 28, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Mike Birbiglia Says DON’T THINK TWICE

I met Mike Birbiglia at an improv school in San Francisco’s Mission District where he had just taught a class despite coming down with a cold. As art imitating life imitating art, it was ideal. His film, DON’T THINK TWICE, follows an improv troupe whose members are about to be thrust into the next stage… Read More »

Tagged With: Alan Zweibel, Brooklyn, collaboration, Georgetown, Gillian Jacobson, Improv, Jorma Taccone, Keegan-Michael Peele, Lena Dunham, pizza, rules of improv, success, The Lonely Island, Upright Citizens Brigade

Josh Mond and Christopher Abbott Introduce Us to JAMES WHITE

November 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Josh Mond and Christopher Abbott Introduce Us to JAMES WHITE

Josh Mond believes in the collective approach to filmmaking. As co-founder of Borderline Films, he and partners Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin produce each other’s films, which include Campos’ SIMON KILLER andDurkin’s MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. With JAMES WHITE, Mond takes his turn behind the camera, and, when I spoke with him and WHITE’s co-star,… Read More »

Tagged With: Borderline Films, cancer, collaboration, Cynthia Nixon, Kid Kudi, male bonding, Mátyás Erdély, mother-son, Scott Mescudi, tight close up, tracking shots

Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu is BIUTIFUL

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu is BIUTIFUL

Until now Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu has made films that feature multiple story lines of people in crisis. With BIUTIFUL, he follows one story from beginning to end, but loses none of the complexity or richness of his previous work. It also incorporates part of his own experience of feeling a brush with death. When I… Read More »

Tagged With: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, BIUTIFUL, collaboration, death, director, drama, film, Javier Bardem, magical realism, movie, narrative, screenwriter, sex

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