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GOOD NIGHT, OPPY — Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave Interview

December 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

GOOD NIGHT, OPPY — Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave have made wonderful documentaries over the years, but not one that they could share with kids. GOODNIGHT, OPPY changed that and it’s something White talked about when the three of us spoke on November 2, 2022. What comes across so clearly in this… Read More »

Tagged With: documentary, exploration, Mars, Mars rover, NASA, robots, tearjerker, technology

QUEEN OF BASKETPALL — Ben Proudfoot Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

QUEEN OF BASKETPALL — Ben Proudfoot Interview

Ben Proudfoot prefers to make documentaries that are short, not feature length, for the freedom it affords him. Without the burden of a feature-length budget to raid, or backers to whom he must answer, he can choose his subjects and tell their stories the way he wants to. It’s a philosophy that has resulted in… Read More »

Tagged With: and donuts, basketball, Delta State, documentary, Mississippi, new orleans jazz, Olympics, Oscar nominated, pandemic

HUNGER WARD — Skye Fitzgerald Interview

April 21, 2021 By Leave a Comment

HUNGER WARD — Skye Fitzgerald Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke with Skye Fitzgerald about his devastatingly beautiful short documentary, HUNGER WARD, on February 26,2021, my first question was about how he dealt with the topic of Yemeni children dying from a deliberately induced famine. Specifically, what it was like to leave a hospital ward where… Read More »

Tagged With: Adel al-Hasani, air blockade, anorexia, child mortality, children, crimes against humanity, documentary, edema, famine, MISS AMERICANA, missile attack, Oscar nominated, starvation, Stephen King, war crime, wheat allergy, Yemen

ALABAMA SNAKE

December 6, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ALABAMA SNAKE

Filmmaker Theo Love wisely begins ALABAMA SNAKE with the only part of this lurid tale of religion, sex, and booze that is not in dispute. That would be when two paramedics drive down a dark country road, on October 4, 1991, sirens and flashing lights off, only to find Darlene Summerford stumbling towards them, clutching… Read More »

Tagged With: Alabama, attempted murder, belief, documentary, Pentecosts, rattlesnake, snake handler, Theo Love, venomous snakes

GENERATION WEALTH — Lauren Greenfield Interview

July 27, 2018 By Leave a Comment

GENERATION WEALTH — Lauren Greenfield Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. In a variety of media, Lauren Greenfield has been documenting the culture of wealth for a quarter of a century. Her latest work has three components, including the documentary GENERATION WEALTH (the other two are a book and an art exhibit). All three trace the phenomenon to 1971,… Read More »

Tagged With: addiction, Barbara Norfleet, consumer culture, decadence, documentary, Generation Wealth, Kim Kardashian, Lauren Greenfield

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

July 7, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

As the documentary THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS opens, Bobby Shafran, one of the eponymous strangers, notes that the story he’s about to tell is unbelievable. And it is.  But the way that Tim Wardle’s dark meditation on good intentions gone very wrong unfolds, the story of how the three identical triplets separated at birth found each other at the age of 19, is the least of it.

Tagged With: adoption, documentary, New York City, stranger than fiction, triplets

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS — Tim Wardle Interview

July 5, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS — Tim Wardle Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Click here for the KMR review of THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS. Almost the first thing I said to Tim Wardle when we spoke on April 8, 2018, was that my greatest hope for the interview was that we wouldn’t give too much away.  I hope we succeeded. His documentary, THREE IDENTICAL… Read More »

Tagged With: adoption, Billy Joel, Bobby Shafran, David Kellman, documentary, Eddie Galland, existential crisis, Lawrence Wright, nature v. nurture, paranoia, Paul Sanderson, RAW, separated at birth, stranger than fiction, triplets

WHOSE STREETS? — Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis Interview

August 10, 2017 By Leave a Comment

WHOSE STREETS? — Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis Interview

When I spoke with Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis on April 14, 2017, a certain soft drink commercial featuring a certain member of a family famous for being famous had just been pulled for being offensive.  It’s emblematic of the culture that WHOSE STREETS?, their searing documentary about the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting… Read More »

Tagged With: barber shop, chemical warfare, Civil Rights Movement, Damon Davis, documentary, education, fake news, Ferguson, Martin Luther King, Michael Brown, modern blackface, Muhammed Ali, police militarization, race relations, Sabaah Folayan, Shooting

JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT — Jeremiah Tower & Lydia Tenaglia Interview

April 28, 2017 By Leave a Comment

JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT — Jeremiah Tower & Lydia Tenaglia Interview

Sometimes doing interviews on location, rather than in the studio, is like living on the edge. Even in an upscale hotel room such as the one where I spoke with legendary chef/restauranteur Jeremiah Tower and director Lydia Tenaglia on April 26, 2017. It was the day before the documentary, JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT opened… Read More »

Tagged With: Anthony Bourdain, Astor Mansion, Bonnard, Brillat-Savarin, chef, Chez Panisse, cooking, cranberries, documentary, Escoffier, Guy Savoy, JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT, Libya, Matisse, New American Cuisine, Rudolph Nureyev, Stars, Tavern on the Green, The New York Times

THEO WHO LIVED — David Schisgall Interview

December 19, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THEO WHO LIVED — David Schisgall Interview

THEO WHO LIVED is a story of the remarkable empathy its subject, American journalist Theo Padnos, found for the captors who tortured him after being kidnapped in Syria in 2012.  David Schisgall’s sensitive, heart-wrenching documentary about Theo, like Theo himself, finds the humanity in everyone. Preferring to see people as individuals rather than stereotypes, it’s… Read More »

Tagged With: Al Qaeda, documentary, empathy, Evil Empire, FBI, hostage, ISIS, James Foley, Political kidnapping, Syria, terrorism, turkey

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