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A FANTASTIC WOMAN — Daniela Vega and Sebastián Lelio Interview

February 15, 2018 By 1 Comment

A FANTASTIC WOMAN — Daniela Vega and Sebastián Lelio Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke with Chile’s Sebastián Lelio and Daniela Vega for the Oscar-nominated A FANTASTIC WOMAN on January 9th, 2018, I started with the obvious question, why a film with a transgender protagonist, and why Daniela, who started the project as a consultant before becoming its star. We… Read More »

Tagged With: Chilean cinema, cis-gender, discrimination, drama, love story, magical realism, music, mystery, prejudice, transgender

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

LILA & EVE Rewrites Revenge

July 17, 2015 By 1 Comment

LILA & EVE Rewrites Revenge

As a portrait of perfect grief, LILA & EVE is unmatched. Blessed with a performance by Viola Davis as Lila, this is one of the best ever filmed. She is fierce, edgy, and heartbreaking as a single mother in a harrowing study of the limits of sanity in the face of unutterable tragedy. Unlike the… Read More »

Tagged With: drama, drive-by shooting, grief, Jennifer Lopez, murdered child, narrative, revenge, vengeance, Viola Davis

RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

March 22, 2015 By Leave a Comment

RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

There is a reason that there is a rigid formula for Liam Neeson action films:  it has a tendency to hit more than it misses.  In RUN ALL NIGHT, the tropes are all present and accounted for with the variations that are permitted within the formula’s rules.  Neeson is the everyman with, you will pardon… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Common, crime thriller, drama, Ed Harris, explosion, father-son relationship, fistfight, gunfight, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joel Kinnaman, Liam Neeson, narrative, New York City, suspense, Vincent D'Onofrio

SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

February 4, 2015 By 2 Comments

SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

SONG OF THE SEA reminds us of the power of simplicity in storytelling and in animation.  Hand-drawn and steeped in Irish folklore, it is a profoundly moving experience rife with charm, wisdom, and beauty.  Told from a child’s perspective, the magical and the mundane coalesce in perfect harmony, revealing the one in the other in… Read More »

Tagged With: Celtic, cinema, drama, film, folklore, Ireland, Irish, Macha, mythology, narrative, ocean, Owl Witch, seal, selkie

Julianne Moore is STILL ALICE

January 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Julianne Moore is STILL ALICE

It starts with a slip so small, so subtle, that it goes unremarked by everyone present. At the birthday celebration for Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), her rejoinder to a question about the sibling rivalry between her two daughters concerns her relationship with her own sister, now deceased.  It is a moment that evokes what is… Read More »

Tagged With: Alzheimer's, book to film, brain function, degenerative disease, drama, Early onset Alzheimer's, memory loss, narrative, neurological disorder

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR for Oscar Isaac

January 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR for Oscar Isaac

Sometimes in an interview there’s a defining line. And in talking to Oscar Isaac about JC Chandor’s A MOST VIOLENT YEAR on December 5, 2014, it came towards the end our conversation, when I had asked what I called the “obligatory Star Wars question”.  As Isaac was describing his method for getting into character as an… Read More »

Tagged With: Catalina Sandino Moreno, cinema, drama, film, Grace Frick, interviews, JC Chandor, Jessica Chastain, Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian, movie, Movies and tagged and t-bone burnett, mystery, Oscar Isaac, Star Wars, thriller, X-wing fighter.

The WHIPLASH of Damien Chazelle

January 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment

The WHIPLASH of Damien Chazelle

When I met Damien Chazelle, one of the first things I said to him was that his film WHIPLASH had to be one of the sweatiest movies ever made, up there with BEN HUR and COOL HAND LUKE. He laughed and said he was pleased to have filled such a niche market. That’s the kind of guy… Read More »

Tagged With: Buddy Rich, cinema, Damien Chazelle, drama, drumming, film, J.K. Simmons, jazz, Miles Teller, movie, music, music school, narrative

THE BETTER ANGELS

November 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE BETTER ANGELS

No plaster saint, nor marble effigy of Abraham Lincoln is to be found in THE BETTER ANGELS. Based on the recollections of Lincoln’s surviving family, as spoken by his cousin about his boyhood in Indiana, this is a Lincoln before the legends had taken root, the Lincoln of great promise whose intellectual curiosity and love… Read More »

Tagged With: A.J. Edwards. Terrence Malick, Abraham Lincoln, American history, black and white cinematography, cinema, drama, film, history, Jason Clark, movies

Bennett Miller on FOXCATCHER

November 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Bennett Miller on FOXCATCHER

During a press day, it’s usually the publicist who gives the signal that time is up. In the case of Bennett Miller, though, he was concerned that the opening and closing of the door would interfere with the sound I was recording. That’s why he set a timer on his phone, and why at the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bennett Miller, Channing Tatum, cinema, drama, Du Pont, film, Foxcatcher, Mark Ruffalo, movie, Olympics, Steve Carrell, wrestling

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