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23 MILE — Mitch McCabe Interview

June 3, 2024 By Leave a Comment

23 MILE  — Mitch McCabe Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Mitch McCabe’s documentary, 23 MILE, is a different look at the political and cultural divides here in these United States. Drawing on footage filmed after they returned to Michigan to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic, and encompassing not just the contentious 2020 election, but also the Black Lives… Read More »

Tagged With: 2020 election, Black Guns Matter, Black Lives Matter, counterintuitive coalitions, COVID-19, Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan, Militia of Love, open-carry, pandemic, Three Percenter

HE’S WATCHING

July 27, 2022 By 1 Comment

HE’S WATCHING

For the first 15 minutes or so of HE’S WATCHING, you might be forgiven if you think that this is just another semi-inspired entry into the found-footage sub-genre of horror. I’m not sure that isn’t exactly what filmmaker Jacob Estes intended. It certainly makes what follows all the more effective for it having lulled us… Read More »

Tagged With: demons, pandemic, siblings, strawberries

2022 San Francisco Mime Troupe: Back to the Way Things Were — Velina Brown Interview

June 27, 2022 By Leave a Comment

2022 San Francisco Mime Troupe: Back to the Way Things Were — Velina Brown Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. The San Francisco Mime Troupe returns after a two-year hiatus from live performances with the musical satire Back to the Way Things Were. It’s a timely (of course) look at intergenerational worldviews and a pointed examination of where nostalgia fails, It’s directed by Velina Brown, who, like the… Read More »

Tagged With: capitalism, covid, live theater, nostalgia, pandemic, satire

HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC — David France Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC — David France Interview

Ten years ago, David France made the Oscar™-nominated HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, a powerful documentary about the AIDS crisis, and the response by the actvist community to the inertia around finding a cure. When I spoke with France on March 28, 2022 about his latest documentary, HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC, I asked him… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, activist spirit, Anthony Fauci, AstraZeneca Trials, Black Lives Matter, Coronavirus, covid, Donald Trump, Dr. Adrian Hill, Jair Bolsonaro, journalism science, miracles, Operation Warp Speed, Oxford University, pandemic, Reverend Paul Abernathy, robotic camera, social justice movements, trump administration, Trumpism

QUEEN OF BASKETPALL — Ben Proudfoot Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

QUEEN OF BASKETPALL — Ben Proudfoot Interview

Ben Proudfoot prefers to make documentaries that are short, not feature length, for the freedom it affords him. Without the burden of a feature-length budget to raid, or backers to whom he must answer, he can choose his subjects and tell their stories the way he wants to. It’s a philosophy that has resulted in… Read More »

Tagged With: and donuts, basketball, Delta State, documentary, Mississippi, new orleans jazz, Olympics, Oscar nominated, pandemic

TOGETHER

September 4, 2021 By 1 Comment

TOGETHER

Click here for the flashback interview with James McAvoy and Joe Wright for ATONEMENT. Years from now, Dennis Kelly’s TOGETHER will be an integral part of future generations understanding the zeitgeist of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be an excellent reminder, too, for those of us who lived through that pandemic, after time and subsequent… Read More »

Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID-19, estranged couple, forced cohabitation, lockdown, mushroom poisoning, pandemic

WHEN I CONSUME YOU — Perry Blackshear, Macleod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Libby Ewing Interview

August 18, 2021 By Leave a Comment

WHEN I CONSUME YOU — Perry Blackshear, Macleod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Libby Ewing Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. I spoke by Zoom to writer/director Perry Blackshear and actors/producers Macleod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Libby Ewing ahead of the world premiere of their film, WHEN I CONSUME YOU, at the Fantasia International Film Festival. This intense psychological horror/mystery film deals with Daphne and Will (Ewing and Dumouchel),… Read More »

Tagged With: child abuse, exorcism, film editing, gentleness, pandemic, Personal demons, smirk, survivors of child abuse

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