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ALMOST LOVE — Mike Doyle and Scott Evans Interview

April 1, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ALMOST LOVE — Mike Doyle and Scott Evans Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. feature film directorial debut.  We got to that later in our interview on June 26, 2019, along with his take on being directed by Clint Eastwood  in JERSEY BOYS.  Before then, he and co-star Scott Evans, who plays one half of a long-term couple at a crossroads, graciously humored me with… Read More »

Tagged With: directorial debut, ice cream truck, jejune, LGBTQ, romance

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

SYRIANA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SYRIANA

At two different points during SYRIANA, two different men in traditional Arab robes sits on a floor surrounded by two different sets of rapt listeners sitting in a circle. Each explains with perfect conviction how to make the world a better place. One is an eloquent imam in a poverty-stricken madrassa, advocating a return to… Read More »

Tagged With: class traitors, covert government operations, deception, director, directorial debut, intrigue, nature of truth, oil rights, Persian Gulf. oil, politics, saving energy, screenwriter, Stephen Gaghan, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, TRAFFIC

THE DANCER UPSTAIRS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE DANCER UPSTAIRS

THE DANCER UPSTAIRS is a stunning exploration of passion and delusion, and not just the romantic kind, though the power of Eros is seen here as just as treacherous as the political backdrop of the story. Set in an unnamed South American country in a time specified only as the recent past, an honest man,… Read More »

Tagged With: anarchy, director, directorial debut, Javier Bardem, John Malkovich, Latin America, mystery, narrative, police detective, politics, revolution, romance, South America, THE DANCER UPSTAIRS, thriller, violence in films

Tom Dolby Savors the LAST WEEKEND

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Tom Dolby Savors the LAST WEEKEND

It was only right that when I spoke by phone with Tom Dolby about LAST WEEKEND on September 12, 2014, he was on his porch overlooking a lake. LAST WEEKEND, which Dolby co-directed with Tom Williams from his own script, is set on Lake Tahoe during an emotionally tumultuous Labor Day Weekend for the affluent Green family. One of the… Read More »

Tagged With: A PLACE IN THE SUN, baskets, cinema, class system, co-director, collecting baskets, comedy-drama, directorial debut, drama, Family, film, Labor Day weekend, lake house, Lake Tahoe, movie, narrative, Patricia Clarkson, sound recording, sunscreen, Tom Dolby

The LEVITY of Ed Solomon

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The LEVITY of Ed Solomon

Making his directorial debut filming his own script wasn’t the only break Mark Solomon made with his previous work. Unlike the broad comedy he’s done before, LEVITY is a thought-provoking film that isn’t afraid to examine matters religious and moral in a world that offers few absolutes when it comes to right and wrong. It was… Read More »

Tagged With: budget filmmaking, cinema, director, directorial debut, drama, early morning, Ed Solomon, film, forgiveness, introspection, LEVITY, metaphysics, moral absolutes, morality, movie, murder, narrative, redemption, religion, right and wrong, screenwriter

John Malkovich Captures THE DANCER UPSTAIRS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

John Malkovich Captures THE DANCER UPSTAIRS

John Malkovich is a man who likes to take his time, whether putting together THE DANCER UPSTAIRS, his directorial debut in films, or in answering questions and about the art and craft of acting on stage and on screen. It led to a fair amount of philosophizing when I interviewed him on April 17, 2003 and a… Read More »

Tagged With: anarchy, director, directorial debut, Javier Bardem, John Malkovich, mystery, narrative, police detective, politics, revolution, romance, South America, THE DANCER UPSTAIRS, thriller, violence in films

Stephen Gaghan Visits SYRIANA

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Stephen Gaghan Visits SYRIANA

Stephen Gaghan has a broad worldview, one that is reflected in his Oscar(tm)-winning screenplay for TRAFFIC and now, even more superbly, in SYRIANA, which is also his directorial debut. This multi-faceted story of intrigue and deception surrounding the rights to an oil field in an unnamed Persian Gulf country is gripping, surprising, and scathingly intelligent.… Read More »

Tagged With: class traitors, covert government operations, deception, director, directorial debut, intrigue, nature of truth, oil rights, Persian Gulf. oil, politics, saving energy, screenwriter, Stephen Gaghan, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, TRAFFIC

Tony Gilroy Pulls the Strings on MICHAEL CLAYTON

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Tony Gilroy Pulls the Strings on MICHAEL CLAYTON

Tony Gilroy is no stranger to the inner workings of law firms. He researched how things operated while writing the screenplay for THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE, but with MICHAEL CLAYTON, which marks his directorial debut, he kept things strictly out of the supernatural realm while still exploring the evil at work in the world. When we… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, corporate ethics, director, directorial debut, drama, film, George Clooney, law firms, lawsuits, lies, loneliness, madness, madness as sanity, MICHAEL CLAYTON, movie, narrative, sanity, Tilda Swinton, Tony Gilroy, truth, writer

David Schwimmer Says RUN FATBOY RUN

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

David Schwimmer Says RUN FATBOY RUN

When I spoke to David Schwimmer on March 5, 2008, his directorial debut was the reason for the interview, but it was his working relationship with radio legend Studs Terkel that I wanted to start with. Schwimmer’s reminiscence about the man, and the effect he had on his theater career that shed a whole new… Read More »

Tagged With: Band of Brothers, comedy, David Schwimmer, directorial debut, film. movie director, mid-budget film, narrative, rolling with the punches, Simon Pegg, Studs Terkel, theater career

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