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WE ARE X — Stephen Kijak Interview

October 28, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WE ARE X — Stephen Kijak Interview

It all started with a picture.  Stephen Kijak, who has made a career of documenting rock stars, thought he had seen it all, but there was something about Yoshiki that he couldn’t shake. When I spoke with the filmmaker on October 26, 2016 about his documentary, WE ARE X, it was one of the first… Read More »

Tagged With: David Bowie, documentary, Gene Simmons, Japanese Glam Rock, John Battsek, Madison Square Garden, Passion Pictures, Pink Lady and Jeff, rock gods, Scott Walker, Stephen Kijak, suicide, Toshi, X Japan, Yoshiki

THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT — Ross Adam Interview

September 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT — Ross Adam Interview

Rob Cannan was stuck in London traffic as my phone interview time with him and his filmmaker partner, Ross Adam began, but Adam did a terrific job doing double-duty, as it were, talking about their stranger-than-fiction documentary, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT. The two spent years pursuing the movie rights to one of the most… Read More »

Tagged With: Choi Eun-hee, documentary, espionage, film industry, kidnapping, Kim Jung Il, North Korea, Shin Sang-ok, South Korea

Eddie Rosenstein Celebrates the FREEDOM TO MARRY

June 24, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Eddie Rosenstein Celebrates the FREEDOM TO MARRY

When I spoke to Eddie Rosenstein by phone on June 22, 2016, the first thing I wanted him to discuss was how important it was to remember the decades-long struggle for marriage equality.  We went on to talk about his personal connection to one his subjects, Evan Wolfson, of the  Freedom to Marry Coalition, and… Read More »

Tagged With: documentary, equal rights, Evan Wolfson, grass-roots organizing, HBO, human rights, LGBTQ, marriage, marriage equality, Mary Bonauto, Minnesota, Supreme Court, Texas, U.S. State Department

David Farrier is TICKLED

June 23, 2016 By Leave a Comment

David Farrier is TICKLED

When I spoke with David Farrier by phone on June 22, 2016, I started by asking him if he had been served any legal papers that day.  It was a semi-facetious question.  Making his endlessly fascinating, endlessly surprising documentary, TICKLED, has resulted in an ongoing string of legal threats and a not a few legal… Read More »

Tagged With: car trip, cryptozoology, Cyberbullying, David Farrier, documentary, Donald Trump, fetish, harassment, HBO, homophobia, legal action, Magnolia Pictures, Sundance Film Festival, ticking fetish, True/False Film Festival

SOUTHWEST OF SALEM — The San Antonio Four and filmmakers Deborah S. Esquenazi and Sam Tabet

June 22, 2016 By Leave a Comment

SOUTHWEST OF SALEM — The San Antonio Four and filmmakers Deborah S. Esquenazi and Sam Tabet

I spoke to the San Antonio Four, Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez,on June 20, 2016, it was the afternoon before their film, SOUTHWEST OF SALEM screened at the 40th Annual Frameline Festival.  When they and director Deborah S. Esquenazi and producer Sam Tabet appeared on stage after that screening, it was to a five-minute… Read More »

Tagged With: child rape, criminal justice system, Debbie Nathan, documentary, exoneration, incarceration, junk science, jury trial, Latina, lesbian, LGBT, Miscarriage of justice, predator dorm, recanted testimony, ritual child abuse, San Antonio Four, Satanism, sex crime

Paul Mariano Describes What It’s Like BEING GEORGE CLOONEY

June 8, 2016 By 1 Comment

Paul Mariano Describes What It’s Like BEING GEORGE CLOONEY

Any film, and any filmmaker, who can make Mussolini part of the story of film dubbing is a film, and a filmmaker, that I want to know. With BEING GEORGE CLOONEY, and Paul Mariano, I was amply rewarded for my time watching this illuminating documentary about the voice actors who put Italian (French, Hindi, Portuguese, etc.)… Read More »

Tagged With: Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, creative artist, cultural impact, Disney, documentary, dubbing, George Clooney, Germany, Goldcrest Films NYC, Istanbul, Je Suis Brad Pitt, Kurt Norton, lawsuit, Mussolini, Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s 12, Paul Mariano, Steven Sodebergh, Steven Spielberg, studio profits, turkey, voice actors

Will Durst, Johnny Steele, and Larry “Bubbles” Brown are 3 STILL STANDING

October 13, 2015 By 2 Comments

Will Durst, Johnny Steele, and Larry “Bubbles” Brown are 3 STILL STANDING

I have been a fan of all three of the gentlemen still standing since I first came to San Francisco a long, long time ago. And so it was no surprise to me that my interview with them on September 28, 2015 for the doc in which they star, 3 STILL STANDING, would be smart… Read More »

Tagged With: Becky Spencer, comedy, Dana Carvey, Dave Feldman, documentary, fault lines, Holy City Zoo, hooker jokes, jelly butter, Johnny Steele, Larry “Bubbles” Brown, plane crash, Red Bluff, Robin Williams, rock-a-billy, Round Up Saloon, sound of impact, stand-up, Will Durst

Ravi and Geeta Patel Want You to MEET THE PATELS

September 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Ravi and Geeta Patel Want You to MEET THE PATELS

I have rarely laughed as much as I did when I spoke to Ravi and Geeta Patel on August 13, 2015, it was by Skype, with me in San Francisco, Geeta in North Carolina, and Ravi in Hollywood, but the rapport made it seem like we were all in the same room. The subject was… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, arranged marriage, audience awards, blind dates, brother--sister relationship, divorce rate, documentary, dysfunctional family, Family, festival circuit, finding love, Geeta Patel, Hot Docs, Indian-American, LA Film Festival, media, Michael Moore, Project Kashmir, Ravi Patel, siblings, Southeast Asian, The Wachowskis, UTA

STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE

September 5, 2015 By 1 Comment

STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE

There is one moment in STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE that sums up the documentary and the man. It’s when an engineer who worked on the Mac in the 1980s reads the obituary he wrote of Jobs and begins to weep. This after revealing that his three years at Apple cost him his… Read More »

Tagged With: Alex Gibney, Apple, Chinese workers suicide, CNN Films, documentary, hi-tech, iPhone, Mac, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, tech industry, zen

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

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