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WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED — Gillian Armstrong Interview

August 8, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED — Gillian Armstrong Interview

Gillian Armstrong knew little if anything about George Orry-Kelly when she started making her zesty and intimate documentary about him, WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED.  The Australian with enormous talent and even more guts, hopped a boat to New York City when he was 24, where he met and fell in love with Archie Leach, and became… Read More »

Tagged With: Australia, Cary Grant, clothing designer, costume collectors, costume conservation, costume design, Darren Gilshenan, Gypsy, Hollywood, Kiama NSW, Larry McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, movies, Natalie Wood, Orry-Kelly, studios, watercolor

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

Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari – Rosewater

October 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari – Rosewater

As God is my witness, I thought that Jon Stewart knew that Aryan had more than one definition. He didn’t, but it made for a lively way to start my conversation with both him and Maziar Bahari on October 22, 2014. As Bahari pointed out, Iranians are the original Aryans, and he went on to… Read More »

Tagged With: aryan, based on a true story, books to film, cinema, Dr. Strangelove, film, film director, interviews, jon stewart, Maziar Bahari, movie, movies, narrative and tagged 2009 Iranian election, ROSEWATER, Shoreh Agdashloo, Then They Came For Me

Jon Favreau is CHEF

October 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jon Favreau is CHEF

Jon Favreau is very serious about CHEF. It’s his baby, after all. He wrote, directed, and co-starred in this lovely fable about a chef who has to have the rug pulled out from under him to find out what it means to be successful. Hence his willingness to sit down for an interview at 6:45… Read More »

Tagged With: Cafe du Monde, cinema, cooking, critics, cuban sandwiches, film, food truck, Jon Favreau, movies, restaurat, Sofia Vergara

Theodore Bikel Walks IN THE SHOES OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM

October 22, 2014 By 1 Comment

Theodore Bikel Walks IN THE SHOES OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM

Where to begin when talking to the wonder that is Theodore Bikel?  In his 90 years (and counting), he’s been arrested protesting the treatment of Soviet Jewery, and protesting for civil rights in the American south. He originated the role of Captain Von Trapp on Broadway, recorded the best-selling Yiddish folk albums of all time,… Read More »

Tagged With: Austria, Belle Kaufman, Captain Von Trapp, cinema, documentary, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Fiddler on the Roof, film, folk singer, interviews, John Lollos, Kibbutz, Kristalnacht, movies, MY FAIR LADY, Partners for Progressive Israel, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Sholom Aleichem, stage to screen. Theodore Bikel, Tevye, THE AFRICAN QUEEN, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING

Richard Linklater — BOYHOOD

October 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Richard Linklater — BOYHOOD

Richard Linklater’’s films can’t be easily pigeon-holed, and that’’s because he surrenders to the driving force of an artistic compulsion, or as he put is when I spoke to him on July 17, 2014, a crazy idea.  His latest film, BOYHOOD, is an example of an idea so crazy that it’’s beyond brilliant. It’s inspired.… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, Ethan Hawke, film, growing up, movies, parenting, Patricia Arquette, Richard Linklater

NOAH

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

NOAH

In the old days, biblical epics were produced as much to have an excuse for prurient excess as for the moral lesson to be imparted by the retelling of a familiar tale of good and evil. Darren Aronofsky’’s NOAH is about as far from that trope as it is possible to get and still be… Read More »

Tagged With: Aronofsky, biblical, cinema, flood, Kabbalah, movies, mysticism, Noah, sephiroth, Zohar

MALEFICENT

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MALEFICENT

There is an old saw about movies that goes, “Don’t tell, show”” and, alas, MALEFICENT has gotten that backwards. wtih an incessant, distracting, and otherwise unhelpful narration. It’s an unfortunate irony in that the film seeks to inform us of the other side of the Sleeping Beauty story, that of the evil fairy who cursed a… Read More »

Tagged With: Angelina Jolie, cinema, Elle Fanning, fairy tales, film, movies, Sleeping Beauty

DELIVER US FROM EVIL

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

DELIVER US FROM EVIL is a curious blend of intensity and lassitude. Though rife with images of gory mutilations, animal and human, there is in its decorous pacing the whiff of the better Merchant-Ivory productions of times gone by, where things unfold in their own time and without any unseemly rush amid lush surroundings and… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, Deliver Us From Evil, Eric Bana, exorcism, film, horror, movies

SEX TAPE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The protagonists of SEX TAPE are a happily married couple, deeply in love and deeply committed to one another and their two kids, but, after 10 years or so of marriage, the fiery passion they enjoyed in the first flush of lust/love, and before discovering how versatile a lady’s lady parts are, has become a… Read More »

Tagged With: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, movies, video

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