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TESLA

August 22, 2020 By 1 Comment

TESLA

Quiet in tone, and visually arresting, TESLA tells the story of a man whose perspective had only the most tangential relationship to that of the mere mortals who surrounded him. Michael Almereyda film echoes that with a high-minded tone-poem that mixes fact and fiction to achieve an emotional and intellectual, if not factual, truth. The… Read More »

Tagged With: dreams, Edison, electricity, George Westinghouse, Gilded Age, oscillation, science, Tesla

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

November 8, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT is an elegantly realized intellectual thriller which considers not only the eternal struggle between art and commerce, but also the effect of personalities on inventing the future. In this case, three visionaries, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla. Each with a particular kind of genius, each with idiosyncrasies… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, alternating current, based on a true story, direct current, Edison, electricity, J.P. Morgan, technology, Tesla, Westinghouse

Jenna Ricker on THE AMERICAN SIDE

June 4, 2016 By 2 Comments

Jenna Ricker on THE AMERICAN SIDE

Star and co-writer Greg Stuhr sat in on my interview with co-writer and director Jenna Ricker.  You can almost hear him off mic adding a word or two, but he chose to remain a suitably enigmatic, though thoroughly affable, presence rather than a participant as Ricker and I discussed their intriguing film noir, THE AMERICAN SIDE.… Read More »

Tagged With: Bohemian Grove, Buffalo, conspiracy theory, Edison, electric car, film noir, genre films, Greg Stuhr, Jenna Ricker, McGuffin, paranoia, Pierce Arrow, Tesla

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