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LITTLE MEN — Ira Sachs & Theo Taplitz Interview

August 12, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LITTLE MEN — Ira Sachs & Theo Taplitz Interview

I’m still not convinces that Theo Taplitz >isn’t< a well-preserved 40-year-old masquerading as an adolescent. Still too young to vote, he’s already made two short films that are whimsical, yet solid (click here for links), and given a performance in Ira Sachs’ LITTLE MEN that is wise beyond his years. We started my interview with… Read More »

Tagged With: audition, box boy, cassette, casting, father-son, gender, LaGuardia High School, Ozu, sexuality, The 400 Blows, The World of Henry Orient, Walkman

Matt Ross is CAPTAIN FANTASTIC

July 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Matt Ross is CAPTAIN FANTASTIC

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC opens with a deer hunt.  It’s graphic. It’s violent. Yet there is something about it that shows enormous respect for the animal, and for the young man who brings it down using only a knife. This is not sport, it’s food.  That sequence was the first thing I brought up on July 7,… Read More »

Tagged With: alternative educations, being present, Carey Fukunaga, child rearing, crochet, death, Family, father-daughter, father-son, funeral, gender fluidity, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, hunting, long close-up, Off the grid, Ozu, parental anxiety, spike stitch, The Mermaid, William Butler Yeats

Anita Monga on the 2016 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

June 1, 2016 By 1 Comment

Anita Monga on the 2016 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Few people speak about silent cinema with such authority and such affection as Anita Monga, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. When we spoke on May 16, 2016, it was to discuss not just the dynamic slate of films at this year’s festival, its 21st, but also the work that the festival… Read More »

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