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THE DUNNING MAN — Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, and Ian Blume Interview

March 30, 2017 By 1 Comment

THE DUNNING MAN — Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, and Ian Blume Interview

The one question I knew I wasn’t going to ask the team behind THE DUNNING MAN was the one about that Oscar™-winning film that shares a name with DUNNING MAN’s director/screenwriter, Michael Clayton. Instead, when I spoke with Clayton, writer Kevin Fortuna, editor Ian Blume by phone on March 6, 2017, I started the conversation by… Read More »

Tagged With: Atlantic City, book to screen, Brenden and Billy Ryan, director, editor, Hierarchy of Need, investing, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Maslow, MFA program, New Orleans, Nicoye Banks, Petr Cikhart, Skinny D’Amato, Spider Stacy, The Bogmen, The Pogues, UNO, writer

LATTER DAYS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

LATTER DAYS

Oh no, it’s another film about a religious good boy moving to the big bad city and discovering that he’’s gay. I know, it sounds awful in that we’’ve seen this a gazillion times sense, but LATTER DAYS is a cut above the rest for its gentle message about finding the strength to see other… Read More »

Tagged With: closeted, gay, giving voice to the voiceless, LGBT, Mormon Mission, religion, romance, writer

GARDEN STATE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Only rarely does a film as profound, as rich, and as deeply affecting as GARDEN STATE come along. Even more rarely is it the handiwork of a first-time filmmaker. That would be Zack Braff, known for his role as the philosophically harried intern on the subversively wicked comedy, “Scrubs”. Braff is Andrew Largeman, a struggling… Read More »

Tagged With: actor, debut film, director, funeral, gravedigger, mental illness, narrative, prescripton drugs, waiter, writer, Zack Braff

KINSEY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

KINSEY opens with the face of Peter Sarsgaard in close-up looking directly into the camera and asking questions of a sexual nature. An offscreen voice stops him when he uses a euphemism for a sexual act. No, says the voice that we will shortly learn is Kinsey’s, it won’t work unless you are completely straightforward,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bill Condon, bio-pic. drama, class structure, director, history, human sexuality, interview, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, narrative, prudery, social attitudes, study of human sexuality, weight gain, writer

THE HELP

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HELP, based on the novel of the same name by Kathryn Stockett, gently but firmly peels away they dry rot of racism that festered beneath the gracious, etiquette obsessed façade of southern gentility before the civil rights movement. What is remarkable, and a remarkably difficult line to walk, is that it does so while… Read More »

Tagged With: Allison Janney, books to film, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cicely Tyson., director, domestic servants, Emma Stone, Jackson, Jessica Chastain, Jim Crow, Kathryn Stockett, Mary Steenburgen, Mississippi, Octavia Spencer, race relations, racial discrimination, racial prejudice, Sissy Spacek, Tate Taylor, THE HELP, Viola Davis, writer

Jay C. Cox Reveals LATTER DAYS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jay C. Cox Reveals LATTER DAYS

LATTER DAYS is a film that is funny, moving, and that far exceeds expectations. So does its writer/director, C. Jay Cox. I’ve rarely chatted with anyone so engaging and so wickedly funny. But don’t be fooled, this is an inteligent, thoughtful guy who has the worldview that can only the found in a gay Hollywood screenwriter who… Read More »

Tagged With: carsickness, director, gay, giving voice to the voiceless, ice water, Los Angeles, mission, Mormon, writer

Bill Condon Studies KINSEY

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Bill Condon Studies KINSEY

A word of warning. Like KINSEY, the film he wrote and directed, Bill Condon is direct when discussing the research that his title character carried out on human sexuality. Also like the film, it’s done with erudition, insight, and spiced with a pointed wit. When we spoke on October 28, 2004, the converstation naturally turned to… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bill Condon, bio-pic. drama, class structure, director, history, human sexuality, interview, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, narrative, prudery, social attitudes, study of human sexuality, weight gain, writer

Michael Hoffman at THE LAST STATION

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Michael Hoffman at THE LAST STATION

Idealism and living those ideals in the real world is only one of the intriguing issues that screenwriter/director Michael Hoffman wrestled with in adapting THE LAST STATION from the book by Jay Parini to the screen. When I talked to Michael Hoffman on January 6, 2010, he explained how he used Anton Checkov to get… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, Christopher Plummer, cinema, director, drama, Helen Mirren, hero worship, idealism, James McAvoy, Leo Tolstoy, Michael Hoffman, movie, narrative, novelists, Paul Giamatti, Sofya Tolstoy, writer

CRASH With Ryan Phillppe and Paul Haggis

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CRASH With Ryan Phillppe and Paul Haggis

CRASH represents a sea change in careers moves for many of the people involved, not the least director and co-writer Paul Haggis, a veteran of television sitcoms. The provocative story of anger, fear, and race relations in contemporary Los Angeles also provides Ryan Phillippe with one of his best roles in years, maybe the best… Read More »

Tagged With: actor, cinema, class struggle, CRASH, director, drama, face of an angel, film, LAPD, Los Angeles, movie, narrative, Paul Haggis, prejudice, provocative, race relations, Ryan Phillipe, suspense, writer

George A. Romero Insures the SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

When I talked with horror icon George A. Romero on May 13, 2010, it was hard to know where to begin, considering his first feature, 1968’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, earned a place on the Library of Congress’ film register in 1999. I decided to lead with the metaphorical aspect of his latest film, SURVIVAL OF THE… Read More »

Tagged With: director, end of the world, George A. Romero, horror viscera, Library of Congress film registry, movie, movie franchise, Mr. Roger's tonsils, writer, zombies

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