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 »
The Zen of Conquering MERU
Before starting the formal interview with Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, and Chai Vasarhelyi about their stunning documentary MERU, on May 4, 2015, I felt compelled to tell them that while I have climbed stairs in my life, I have never, and never will, climb a mountain. Vasarhelyi, the co-director with her husband, Chin, laughed and… Read More »
THE LAST KISS of Zach Braff
Zach Braff had been to the Emmy Awards show the night before flying into San Francisco for THE LAST KISS’ press day on August 28, 2006. With little sleep, he was still very funny and very thoughtful as he pondered the film’s themes of love, commitment, and the definition of surprise, as well as what… Read More »