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CRIES FROM SYRIA — Evgeny Afineevsky Interiview

March 27, 2017 By Leave a Comment

CRIES FROM SYRIA — Evgeny Afineevsky Interiview

CRIES FROM SYRIA had already made its HBO debut when I spoke with Evgeny Afineevsky on March 16, 2017. He was in San Francisco, though, to do a Q&A after a screening here. Afineevsky is a garrulous, upbeat man, quick with a smile and a hug, but when he talks about the dangers of American… Read More »

Tagged With: Aleppo, Arab Spring, Assad, chemical weapons, defining terms, Elan Kurdi, enemy of the people, Free Speech, HBO, intelligence agencies, ISIS, Jahan Square, Kholoud Helmi, killing children, protest, Putin, Refugees, Russia, Syria, Syrian Revolution, torture, torturing children, Trump, Ukraine

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

Winning THE CASE AGAINST 8

June 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Winning THE CASE AGAINST 8

When I spoke with renowned filmmaker Rob Reiner (A FEW GOOD MEN, THIS IS SPINAL TAP, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY) on June 20. 2014, it was the morning after his film, THE CASE AGAINST 8 had kicked off the 38th annual Frameline Festival in San Francisco. The film, which Reiner co-produced with his wife, Michelle,… Read More »

Tagged With: Ben Cotner, David Boies, documentary, Frameline, HBO, LGBT, marriage quality, Michelle Reiner, Prop 8, Rob Reiner, Ryan White, same-sex marriage, Sundance Audience Award, Ted Olsen

SOMETIMES IN APRIL

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

In SOMETIMES IN APRIL, Raoul Peck (Lumumba), has taken the specific story of the Rwandan genocide of April 1994 and made manifest the universal implications of the events. There is plenty of culpability to go around and Peck is not shy about pointing fingers, but he is also not shy about pointing up the greater… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Africa, based on a true story, cinema, drama, film, genocide, HBO, Human Rights Watch, Hutu, Idris Elba, movie, narrative, Raoul Peck, Rwanda Genocide, Tutsi, world history

James Cromwell on ANGELS IN AMERICA

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

James Cromwell on ANGELS IN AMERICA

I could talk a lot about the HBO presentation of ANGELS IN AMERICA adapted by Tony Kushner from his play and directed by Mike Nichols, a director who has proven has proven his chops with incisive dissections of the moral and political state of the nation with films such as CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and THE GRADUATE.… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, Al Pacino, Angels in America, HBO, James Cromwell, LGBT, Mike Nichols, Roy Cohn, Tony Kushner

Raoul Peck on SOMETIMES IN APRIL

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Raoul Peck on SOMETIMES IN APRIL

Raoul Peck is a softspoken man, but the gentle timbre of his voice does nothing to disguise the passion he feels for SOMETIMES IN APRIL, which he wrote and directed for HBO. This look at the Rwandan genocide of 1994, an event that took a million lives in 100 days, was a topic he was… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Africa, based on a true story, cinema, drama, film, genocide, HBO, Human Rights Watch, Hutu, Idris Elba, movie, narrative, Raoul Peck, Rwanda Genocide, Tutsi, world history

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