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FINDING YOU

May 12, 2021 By 1 Comment

FINDING YOU

FINDING YOU is the quintessence of YA fiction brought to cinematic life. In it, our ordinary, yet winsome heroine, Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid) is pursued by a famous movie star, is the only hope of settling a decades-long family feud, and puts all the snooty girls in her orbit in their respective places. All while… Read More »

Tagged With: family feud, fiddling, Ireland, music, teen hearthob, violin

HEARTS BEAT LOUD

July 1, 2018 By Leave a Comment

HEARTS BEAT LOUD

Click here for the flashback interview with Brett Haley and Katharine Ross for THE HERO. Timing is everything, as we learn in Brett Haley’s HEARTS BEAT LOUD, an irresistible, perfectly balanced comedy-drama about love, loss, and that old truism about the only constant that we can count on is change. It’s also Nick Offerman being… Read More »

Tagged With: Brooklyn, father-daughter, music, Red Hook, vinyl

A FANTASTIC WOMAN — Daniela Vega and Sebastián Lelio Interview

February 15, 2018 By 1 Comment

A FANTASTIC WOMAN — Daniela Vega and Sebastián Lelio Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke with Chile’s Sebastián Lelio and Daniela Vega for the Oscar-nominated A FANTASTIC WOMAN on January 9th, 2018, I started with the obvious question, why a film with a transgender protagonist, and why Daniela, who started the project as a consultant before becoming its star. We… Read More »

Tagged With: Chilean cinema, cis-gender, discrimination, drama, love story, magical realism, music, mystery, prejudice, transgender

I SAW THE LIGHT — Tom Hiddleston & Marc Abraham Interview

April 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

I SAW THE LIGHT — Tom Hiddleston & Marc Abraham Interview

When I spoke with Tom Hiddleston and Marc Abraham on April 1, 2016, I was less interested in how Hiddleston pared even more weight from his already slender frame to better approximate Hank Williams skeletal build, or the five weeks he spent with a country music artist Rodney Crowell in order to absorb the atmosphere of… Read More »

Tagged With: Aristotelian tragedy, back pain, based on a true story, book to screen, catharsis, Country Music, Grand Ole Opry, grits, Hank Williams, music, opening night, Rodney Crowell

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

Laurie Anderson Shares the HEART OF A DOG

November 10, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Laurie Anderson Shares the HEART OF A DOG

Where oh where to start when talking to Laurie Anderson?  A performance artist, musician, actress, filmmaker, first NASA artist-in-residence, and all around great soul, she was in San Francisco to talk about her new film, HEART OF A DOG, a film that uses her dog Lola Belle’s life and death as a touchstone for a… Read More »

Tagged With: art, broken back, death, dog, empathy, FAILSAFE, home movies, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, memory, Mingyur Rinpoche, Mortality, music, NASA colorist, pets, rat terrier, rhizome, scratchy scarf, soundtrack

The WHIPLASH of Damien Chazelle

January 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment

The WHIPLASH of Damien Chazelle

When I met Damien Chazelle, one of the first things I said to him was that his film WHIPLASH had to be one of the sweatiest movies ever made, up there with BEN HUR and COOL HAND LUKE. He laughed and said he was pleased to have filled such a niche market. That’s the kind of guy… Read More »

Tagged With: Buddy Rich, cinema, Damien Chazelle, drama, drumming, film, J.K. Simmons, jazz, Miles Teller, movie, music, music school, narrative

David Burris — THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

January 8, 2015 By Leave a Comment

David Burris — THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

When I spoke with David Burris on December 18, 2014, one of the things I most wanted to talk to him about was getting the accents right in THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT. It’s set in North Carolina, and he used actors from such far-flung places as Australia, England, and Los Angeles. We went on to… Read More »

Tagged With: Adelaide Clemens, book to film, cinema, Civil War, David Burris, director, grits, Haley Joel Osment, history, Jane Rash, Jeremy Irvine, MInka Kelley, movie, music, narrative, New Zealand, Noah Wylie, regional music, Ron Rash, Shane Danielsen, Steve Earl, Survivor, West Virginia, WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

PIRATE RADIO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

PIRATE RADIO

What PIRATE RADIO does that is so remarkable is to capture as closely as a film can what it was like to be a fan of rock & roll at a time when it was considered not just noise, but actual subversion.  Of course, in a way it was. This music was the anthem of… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, censorship, cinema, comedy-drama, film, male posturing, media, music, narrative, Nick Frost, PIRATE RADIO, Richard Curtis, rock and roll, seasickness

VITUS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

VITUS

The secret life of children is fertile territory. The unsullied logic of those for whom preconceived notions and ossified received wisdom are phenomenon yet to come make for a piquant commentary on both. The innocence, the unrestrained emotion, and the intellect unfettered by the conventions of society are a potent combination in VITUS, a delightful… Read More »

Tagged With: Bruno Ganz, child prodigy, music, musical prodigy, narrative, piano, Swiss Cinema

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