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2017 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival — Shira Dubrovner Interview

May 22, 2017 By Leave a Comment

2017 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival — Shira Dubrovner Interview

Shira Dubrovner left behind a successful career in the film business to return to Mammoth Lakes and, eventually, to found the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, now in its third year (May 24-28) It was one of the things I asked her about when we spoke on May 18, 2017, but it wasn’t the first. That… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, Bodie, Dave McCoy, Director’s Lab West, eastern Sierras, film festival, ghost town, indie cartoons, indie film, John Sayles, legalization of marijuana, Mammoth Lakes, Paul Sbrizz, Sierra Spirit Award, The Bum Family, Tommy Chong, UP IN SMOKE

Perry Blackshear, MacLeod Andrews & Evan Dumouchel Insist that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE

February 18, 2015 By 1 Comment

Perry Blackshear, MacLeod Andrews & Evan Dumouchel Insist that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE

  THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE is a first-rate existential horror film, as well as a psychological thriller. I got the same vibe watching it that I had gotten watching PI and BRICK, the maiden efforts of Darren Aronofsky and Rian Johnson respectively. Writer/director Perry Blackshear understands more than just how to create evocative, even sumptuous, visuals, he knows… Read More »

Tagged With: ABSENTIA, alienation, apocalypse, cinema, Danny Boyle, dating, delusions, demons, director, emotional trauma, Evan Dumouchel, existential, friendship, horror, indie film, interview, isolation, loneliness, MacLeod Andrews, male-bonding rituals, Mike Flanagan, movie, OCCULUS, Pantheon of Evil, paranoia, paranormal, Perry Blackshear, primal fear, reality, schizophrenia, screenwriter, self-help, Slamdance, sound design, SUNSHINE, suspense, THE LOOK LIKE PEOPLE, thriller

John C. Reilly Makes Beautiful Music in CYRUS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

John C. Reilly Makes Beautiful Music in CYRUS

  When I spoke with John C. Reilly about CYRUS on June 22, 2010, the first thing I wanted to ask him about was why the improvisational style used by the Duplass Brothers was so appealing to him. The script is more like an outline, with the actors creating the dialogue on the spot, and the first take usually… Read More »

Tagged With: comedy-drama, CYRUS, Duplass Brothers, indie film, John C. Reilly, Jonah HIll, Marisa Tomei, narrative, romance

Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij Listen to the SOUND OF MY VOICE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij Listen to the SOUND OF MY VOICE

For co-writers Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, making SOUND OF MY VOICE wasn’t just a labor of love, but one of passion. Batmaglij directed and Marling stars as Maggie, the enigmatic leader of a cult who claims to have come from the future to save her followers in a film that lets the audience decide… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, belief, Brit Marling, cinema, cults, director, faith, fantasy, film, indie film, journalism, LaBrea Tar Pits, narrative, politics, Sci-fi, screenwriters, SOUND OF MY VOICE, time travel, Zal Batmanglij

Hal Hartley & Parker Posey Revive FAY GRIM

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Hal Hartley & Parker Posey Revive FAY GRIM

The only room to be found in the shared suite was the cramped bedroom, and so Hartley, Posey, and I stretched out amid my recording equipment on the bed to chat about art, politics, and the effect of eye contact on and off the screen.

Tagged With: art, cinema, director, eye contact, FAY GRIM, film, Hal Hartley, Henry Fool, indie film, movie, Parker Posey, politics, screenwriter

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