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THE INSULT — Ziad Douieri Interview

February 8, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE INSULT — Ziad Douieri Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview. Ziad Doueiri made one of my favorite films of the 2010s, THE ATTACK (2011), about an apolitical Arab doctor in Israel who finds himself suddenly the object of suspicion by his friends and colleagues when his wife becomes a suicide bomber. His new film, THE INSULT, the… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Nominee, Anwar Sadat, Beirut, Camp David, Catalonian Secession, Damour massacre, detention, director, drama, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, Jimmy Carter, Joelle Touma, Lebabnon, Menachem Begin, Middle East, Palestinians, politics, Refugee, Sam Goldwyn, Uncategorized and tagged BDS Movement, Ziad Doueiri

THE DUNNING MAN — Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, and Ian Blume Interview

March 30, 2017 By 1 Comment

THE DUNNING MAN — Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, and Ian Blume Interview

The one question I knew I wasn’t going to ask the team behind THE DUNNING MAN was the one about that Oscar™-winning film that shares a name with DUNNING MAN’s director/screenwriter, Michael Clayton. Instead, when I spoke with Clayton, writer Kevin Fortuna, editor Ian Blume by phone on March 6, 2017, I started the conversation by… Read More »

Tagged With: Atlantic City, book to screen, Brenden and Billy Ryan, director, editor, Hierarchy of Need, investing, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Maslow, MFA program, New Orleans, Nicoye Banks, Petr Cikhart, Skinny D’Amato, Spider Stacy, The Bogmen, The Pogues, UNO, writer

AMERICAN PASTORAL — Ewan McGregor Interview

October 20, 2016 By Leave a Comment

AMERICAN PASTORAL — Ewan McGregor Interview

Ewan McGregor had just spent the previous 24 hours flying in from London and then hosting a Q&A for his film, AMERICAN PASTORAL, at the Mill Valley Film Festival, but adrenalin got the better of fatigue when I spoke with him on October 10, 2016. The film charts the life of a Jewish-American golden boy… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, book to screen, director, father-daughter relationship, Philip Roth, politics, Twin Towers

THE HOLLARS — Margo Martindale & John Krasinski Interview

August 24, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE HOLLARS — Margo Martindale & John Krasinski Interview

The problem I run into when writing introductions is deciding what to include and what to leave out when listing the interviewee’s previous credits. In the case of John Krasinski and Margo Martindale, there wasn’t much I wanted to leave out (the woman has won THREE Emmys after all), leading me to crack a joke… Read More »

Tagged With: brain tumor, CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, director, dysfunctional, Family, mother-son, seizure

For Steven Knight, It’s A LOCKE

September 18, 2015 By Leave a Comment

For Steven Knight, It’s A LOCKE

Steven Knight has written some of my favorite films, and so when I learned that he was making a trip to San Francisco  on April 9, 2014, to promote LOCKE, I was more than delighted. A modest man with a dry wit, he humored my penchant for reading too much into things (the name Katrina… Read More »

Tagged With: bluetooth, director, English regional accents, Katrina, LOCKE, screenwriter, Steven Knight, Tom Hardy

Lily Tomlin and Paul Weitz and GRANDMA

August 28, 2015 By 1 Comment

Lily Tomlin and Paul Weitz and GRANDMA

In which Paul Weitz and Lily Tomlin talk the continuum of comedy, reading too much into a name, and paying one’s own way. And a good time is had by all.

Tagged With: abortion, actor, director, Jane Waggoner, Juke and Opal, Lily Tomlin, network censors, Paul Weitz, RIchard Pryor, screenwriter

Hubert Sauper Explores the Irony of WE COME AS FRIENDS

August 26, 2015 By 1 Comment

Hubert Sauper Explores the Irony of WE COME AS FRIENDS

I am rarely left speechless when conducting an interview, but on August 19, 2015, when WE COME AS FRIEND’s Hubert Sauper told me about how a group of Christian missionaries from Texas had convinced their Sudanese converts about the truth of the resurrection, I all but collapsed in bemused disbelief. It’s towards the end of… Read More »

Tagged With: Adam Hochschild, Africa, Afrique Noir, Anuradha Mittal, Barney Broomfield, Belgian Congo, Chinese oil companies, Chinese oil fields, Christian missionaries, colonialism, director, documentary, globalization, Hubert Sauper, King Leopold, King Leopold’s Ghost, land grabs, Mel Gibson, North Sudan, OaklandInstitute.org, oil business, phallic airplane, Ronald Reagan, slave trade, solar-powered bible, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudanese elections, TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, talking bible, The Oakland Institute, U.N. Peacekeeping Forces, United Nations

The Zen of Conquering MERU

August 24, 2015 By 1 Comment

The Zen of Conquering MERU

Before starting the formal interview with Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, and Chai Vasarhelyi about their stunning documentary MERU, on May 4, 2015, I felt compelled to tell them that while I have climbed stairs in my life, I have never, and never will, climb a mountain.  Vasarhelyi, the co-director with her husband, Chin, laughed and… Read More »

Tagged With: anti-Everest, avalanche, Chai Vasarheyli, chiropractor, Conrad Anker, director, documentary, emotional memories, filming at high altitudes, filmmaker, Hinduism, holy site, Jimmy Chin, Josh Ralph, Meru, mountain climbing, mountaineering, Renan Ozturk, Shark’s Fin, soundtrack, spirituality, teamwork

Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt Celebrate THE END OF THE TOUR

August 8, 2015 By 2 Comments

Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt Celebrate THE END OF THE TOUR

You never know what gem of an information nugget you will unearth when conducting an interview, or, as in the case of my chat with Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt, before the formal interview began while I was checking the sound levels on my recording equipment on May 2, 2015. I had spoken to Ponsoldt… Read More »

Tagged With: actor, bio-pic, David Foster Wallace, David Hockney, David Lipsky, director, hero worship, Infinite Jest, James Ponsoldt, Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, journalism, Malcolm Gladwell, novelist, pa tour, Rolling Stone, self-doubt, THE END OF THE TOUR

Stephen Winter Re-discovers JASON AND SHIRLEY

June 27, 2015 By 1 Comment

Stephen Winter Re-discovers JASON AND SHIRLEY

Click here to listen to the interview. When Shirley Clarke made PORTRAIT OF JASON, she was doing more than exercising her creative impulse. The Oscar™-winning director had been all but shut out of Hollywood, and returned to New York to pursue a career as an indie filmmaker rather than deal with being marginalized by the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, African-American, Alan Ginsberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Canada Lee, Carl Lee, cinema, civil rights, director, film, gay, Gus Van Sant, homophobia, Howl, interview, Jack Waters, James Baldwin, James Tobak, Jason Holliday, LGBT, Marion Crane, Miles Davis, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, narrative, New York City, Orson Welles, PARIS IS BURNING, PORTRAIT OF JASON, PSYCHO, racism, River Phoenix, ruthlessness, Sarah Shulman, sexism, Shirley Clark, Stephen Winter, THE TRIAL

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