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BENEDICTION — Jack Lowden Interview

June 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

BENEDICTION — Jack Lowden Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke with Jack Lowden about BENEDICTION via zoom on May 23, 2022, the first thing I wanted to know was what it was like being directed by such an auteur as Terence Davies. This biopic of the life and English poet Siegfried Sassoon, as with… Read More »

Tagged With: LGBT, Peter Capaldi, poet, poetry, Scottish country dancing, Spitfire, Terence Davies; DUNKIRK, Wilfred Owens, World War I

THE HERO

June 16, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE HERO

Sam Elliot is the definition of laconic. As an actor, he is a man who feels deeply, but keeps those emotions in tight check, yet transmitting them to the audience with clarity and an authenticity that is riveting.  His only flaw is that he makes it look almost too easy, until the moment when the… Read More »

Tagged With: auditions, beard stubble, Brett Haley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, First Fig, Katharine Ross, Krysten Ritter, poetry, Sam Elliot, selfishness, subtext, vulnerability

A QUIET PASSION — Terence Davies Interview

May 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

A QUIET PASSION — Terence Davies Interview

Terence Davies is a man of keen intellect and mordant wit who describes himself as one of life’s observers. His films, THE DEEP BLUE SEA, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, his semi-autobiographical DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES, and OF TIME AND THE CITY, his documentary tribute to his hometown of Liverpool, which used Dickinson’s poetry as part… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, afterlife, Amherst, Cynthia Nixon, Emily Dickinson, evangelical, Family, family quarrels, Gettysburg Address, Massachusetts, Paradise, poetry, soul, Vryling Buffam

PATERSON

January 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

PATERSON

PATERSON is the quintessence of everything Jim Jarmusch has done before. Playful in approach, deeply philosophical in meaning, it is a lyrical evocation of joy and sorrow as lived by a bus driver/poet during one eventful yet ordinary week in his life. The bus driver (Adam Driver), his route, and the city in which he lives… Read More »

Tagged With: bulldog, bus driver, New Jersey, Paterson, poetry, rapper, romance

OLIVE OR TWIST

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

OLIVE OR TWIST

Consider the martini. That just what Peter Moody has done with OLIVE OR TWIST, a kitschy 55-minute valentine to that most persistent and evocative of cocktails. Standard references will give you facts, figures, and the twisted history surrounding Martini’s origins, but only Moody will also give you the ambiance, the gestalt, and yes, the cult… Read More »

Tagged With: alcohol, cocktail, culture, food history, martini, mixing a martini, poetry

Dee Rees Isn’t A PARIAH

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Dee Rees Isn’t A PARIAH

PARIAH began life as a feature-length script that was made into a short film. Unwilling to let that be the end of her project, writer/director Dee Rees kept working until the funding came through so that she could make her film her way. When I spoke to her on October 11, 2011, the conversation covered that… Read More »

Tagged With: Aasha Davis, Adapero Oduye, Charles Parnell, Dee Rees, Kim Wayans, LGBT coming out, narrative, Pernell Walker, poetry, writer/director

Amy Acker & Alexis Denisof talk MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Amy Acker & Alexis Denisof talk MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

It was, as you can imagine, delightful to see Fred and Wesley together again. And though there was much to discuss about the Whedonverse, when I spoke to Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof on April 28, 2013, it was not for talking  about their previous pairing as the star-crossed Fred and Wesley on Joss Whedon’s… Read More »

Tagged With: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, cinema, comedy, film, Joss Whedon, movie, poetry, Shakespeare, stage to screen

Peter Moody Offers An OLIVE OR TWIST

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Peter Moody Offers An OLIVE OR TWIST

After chatting with Peter Moody about his ode to the martini, OLIVE OR TWIST, he mixed the best example of that cocktail that I’ve ever had the pleasure of sampling. You’ll hear him doing that at the end of the interview. Just before that, you’ll hear his wife, Mara, opine about the subliminal message that… Read More »

Tagged With: alcohol, cocktail, culture, food history, martini, mixing a martini, poetry

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