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THE INFERNAL MACHINE

September 23, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE INFERNAL MACHINE

THE INFERNAL MACHINE begins as a spare and tense film driven by Guy Pearce’s measured performance as tormented author Bruce Cogburn. Alas, not even Pearce’s fine work as Cogburn slowly unravels from years of guilt can make up for a script whose third act becomes cryptically obtuse, rather than dynamically charged, before it just goes… Read More »

Tagged With: American Southwest, guilt, isolation, mass shooting, paranoia, writer

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

Tate Taylor & Octavia Spencer Bring THE HELP to Life

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Tate Taylor & Octavia Spencer Bring THE HELP to Life

Tate Taylor and Octavia Spencer have a special insight into THE HELP. The novel on which Taylor based his script, which he also directed, was written by his lifelong friend, Kathryn Stockett. Spencer was Taylor’s roommate when she got to know Stockett, and was the inspiration for the character she plays in the film, Minnie.… 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

Dylan Kidd and ROGER DODGER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Dylan Kidd and ROGER DODGER

With ROGER DODGER, writer/director Dylan Kidd has taken the war of the sexes in a whole new direction, one that disempowers the male of the species. It’s anti-hero, the cynical and glib Roger, fancies himself a major player in that war. Yet in the course of one awful day which culminates in Roger trying to help… Read More »

Tagged With: Campbell Scott, cinema, comedy-drama, date movie, director, Dylan Kidd, film, Isabella Rossellini, Jesse Eisenberg, losing virginity, Mille Valley Film Festival, narrative, older woman-younger man, romance, serendipity, war of the sexes, writer

Rich Moore Gives WRECK-IT RALPH Serious Depth

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Rich Moore Gives WRECK-IT RALPH Serious Depth

Rich Moore spent a healthy part of his youth playing video games, which ultimately paid off when the time came to come up with the story for WRECK-IT RALPH. When I spoke to him on October 17, 2012, the first thing I wanted to know was how he got from video games in general to existential… Read More »

Tagged With: 8-bit, animation, computer games, director, Disney, existential angst, fantasy, John C. Reilly, John Lasseter, kids, narrative, Rich Moore, Sarah Silverman, WRECK-IT RALPH, writer

Ursula Meier Finds A Brother for SISTER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Ursula Meier Finds A Brother for SISTER

Ursula Meier knew she had found her muse in Kacey Mottet Klein when she discovered him in 2008, casting him in her film HOME. When I spoke to her on October 29, 2012, we talked about his evolution as an actor, and how she managed to keep that unselfconscious quality that he had shown in… Read More »

Tagged With: 12-year-old, Academy Award, child actor, child neglect, cinema, class system, director, drama, film, Golden Swann, Kacey Mottet Klein, moral relativity, movie, narrative, neglect, petty theft, siblings, ski lodge, Swiss Cinema, Ursula Meier, writer

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