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NEVER LOOK AWAY – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Interview

February 21, 2019 By Leave a Comment

NEVER LOOK AWAY – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Before I started recording my interview with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on January 14, 2019, we reminisced about the last time we had met. It was just before his film, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, had beaten Guillermo del Toro’s odd-on favorite for the Best Foreign Language Oscar™, PAN’S… Read More »

Tagged With: art, art and politics, Avant-garde, Caleb Deschanel, cinematography, Exhibition of Degenerate Art, Gerhard Richter, Nazi, Oscar nominee, sound design, Trump, war crimes

CRASHING – Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee Interview

January 19, 2018 By Leave a Comment

CRASHING – Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee were in the middle of their media blitz for the second season of their HBO series, CRASHING, when we met for a chat on January 17, 2018. The grind of the road did nothing to dampen their either exuberance or their whip-smart humor.… Read More »

Tagged With: Artie Lange, Bill Burr, comedy, divorce, emotional truth, factual truth, Judah Miller, Judd Apatow, Pascal’s Wager, Penn Gillette, Sarah Silverman, stand-up, TJ Miller, Trump, watermelon, women and comedy, yard sale

QUEST — Santiago Rizzo Interview

November 8, 2017 By Leave a Comment

QUEST — Santiago Rizzo Interview

Santiago Rizzo’s semi-autobiographical film, QUEST received the Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Favorite – US Cinema Indie. Not bad for a directorial debut, and doubly gratifying because it is a tribute to the Berkeley teacher, Tim Moellener, who probably saved Rizzo’s life. He certainly set the future filmmaker on a better path than the one… Read More »

Tagged With: Banksy, child abuse, Covenant House, graffiti artist, low-light filming, societal hypocrisy, street art, Tagger, teacher, tracking shots, Trump, trusting the struggle

DOLORES — Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt Interview

September 8, 2017 By 1 Comment

DOLORES  — Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt Interview

Dolores Huerta is a woman who revels in the victories she has won over the years, victories too numerous to list here. She is also a woman who, at 87, has not slowed down in her fight for what still needs to be done in her fight for social justice. The legend started as young… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, advocacy, Arizona public schools, chauvinism, DACA, economic justice, ethnic studies, Fred Ross, Harvey Milk, Heather Heyer, Phil Burton, racism, Robert Kennedy, sexism, social justice, Sr., Trump, United Farm Workers

CRIES FROM SYRIA — Evgeny Afineevsky Interiview

March 27, 2017 By Leave a Comment

CRIES FROM SYRIA — Evgeny Afineevsky Interiview

CRIES FROM SYRIA had already made its HBO debut when I spoke with Evgeny Afineevsky on March 16, 2017. He was in San Francisco, though, to do a Q&A after a screening here. Afineevsky is a garrulous, upbeat man, quick with a smile and a hug, but when he talks about the dangers of American… Read More »

Tagged With: Aleppo, Arab Spring, Assad, chemical weapons, defining terms, Elan Kurdi, enemy of the people, Free Speech, HBO, intelligence agencies, ISIS, Jahan Square, Kholoud Helmi, killing children, protest, Putin, Refugees, Russia, Syria, Syrian Revolution, torture, torturing children, Trump, Ukraine

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