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NINE DAYS

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

NINE DAYS

With NINE DAYS, we are offered a metaphysical cosmology that reconciles why there is evil in the world with a need to believe that someone or something, somewhere, is watching over us and cares about what he or she or it sees. It is a devilishly complicated question, but filmmaker Edson Oda tackles it with… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, meaning of life, metaphysics, small moments

SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION You Will Be Glad to Have Made

November 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION You Will Be Glad to Have Made

Seymour Bernstein is a one of a kind. A brilliant pianist who preferred composing to performing. A teacher who brings out the genius in his students, and a philosopher whose life only appears to be a Spartan one. When we spoke by phone on March 11, 2015, I was delighted to be able to ask… Read More »

Tagged With: Andrew Harvey, b-flat, Beethoven concerto, CAT scans, Chopin nocturne, Clifford Curzon, composing, Ethan Hawke, master class, metaphysics, music, music therapy, New York Philharmonic, pianist, schubert, Seymour Bernstein, teaching, Theodor Leschetizky, Yehudi Mehuhin

COFFEE AND CIGARETTES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

COFFEE AND CIGARETTES

Are you a bug, Bill Murray?” It’’s an odd question, but in the context of Jim Jarmusch’’s brilliant consideration of human interaction, COFFEE AND CIGARETTES, there is both genius and poetry to it. This series of vignettes filmed in glossy, nostalgic black and white examines ten different conversations that on the surface have nothing in common… Read More »

Tagged With: Bill Murray, caffiene, Cigarettes, coffee, conversation, evil twins, giving up smoking, Gza, Iggy Pop, Jack White, Jim Jarmush, juke box, metaphysics, resonance, Rza, Steve Buscemi, Tesla Coil, vignettes

Brit Marling Considers ANOTHER EARTH

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Brit Marling Considers ANOTHER EARTH

ANOTHER EARTH is a film that sets the synapses firing with its consideration of identity, reality, and redemption as it posits a reality where the sky is suddenly filled with a duplicate of our home planet. When I spoke with co-writer and co-star Brit Marling on July 14, 2011, the conversation reflected that as it… Read More »

Tagged With: Brit Marling, identity, metaphysics, narrative, reality, redemption, Sci-fi, speculative fiction

The LEVITY of Ed Solomon

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The LEVITY of Ed Solomon

Making his directorial debut filming his own script wasn’t the only break Mark Solomon made with his previous work. Unlike the broad comedy he’s done before, LEVITY is a thought-provoking film that isn’t afraid to examine matters religious and moral in a world that offers few absolutes when it comes to right and wrong. It was… Read More »

Tagged With: budget filmmaking, cinema, director, directorial debut, drama, early morning, Ed Solomon, film, forgiveness, introspection, LEVITY, metaphysics, moral absolutes, morality, movie, murder, narrative, redemption, religion, right and wrong, screenwriter

Jim Jarmusch Serves COFFEE AND CIGARETTES

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jim Jarmusch Serves COFFEE AND CIGARETTES

COFFEE AND CIGARETTES is a playful, complex film and so is its maker, Jim Jarmusch. And, fittingly, so was the conversation we had about that film, which opened the San Francisco International Film Festival after playing to sold-out crowds at the Toronto Film Festival. Tesla, metaphysics, and the putative collective consciousness of pigeons all had their moments… Read More »

Tagged With: Cigarettes, coffee, collective consciousness, Jim Jarmusch, metaphysics, pigeons, sound design, Tesla

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