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Interviews (10 posts found)
Interview: Eric Goldberg of “Aladdin”
You may not know Eric Goldberg by his name, but you know him by his work. Since 1990, Goldberg has been one of the preeminent names in feature hand-drawn animation. He served as animation director on Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), directed two segments (...
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“A Happy Post-Modernist Now”: An Interview with Guy Maddin
On July 19, as part of its summer series, TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto feted experimental Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin by hosting a free screening of his 2007 phantasmagorical quasi-memoir My Winnipeg, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker himself. Movie ...
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Sven Hansen-Løve and Félix de Givry on “Eden”
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve (Goodbye First Love, Father of My Children), Eden recreates the atmosphere of the house/garage music movement in early 1990s France. The surrogate of this experience is a DJ named Paul (Félix de Givry), who tempers his other life pr...
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A Critic Behind the Camera: David Chen & “The Primary Instinct”
I first met David Chen several years ago at the Independent Film Festival Boston. Then, as now, he was hosting the hugely popular SlashFilmcast, and at the time had just launched The Tobolowsky Files – a podcast featuring veteran character actor Stephen Tobolo...
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Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado on “The Salt of the Earth”
For decades, Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado has been one of the most celebrated social photographers in the world. He gets his due in the new documentary The Salt of the Earth, which both recounts his life and work, and uses both as a lens through...
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Kornél Mundruczó and Teresa Miller on “White God”
When Hungarian writer/director Kornél Mundruczó wanted to make a cinematic parable in which stray dogs stand in for humanity’s social undesirables, he knew he’d need a skilled animal coordinator/trainer to pull it off. The story of White God involves hundreds ...
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Lisandro Alonso On “Jauja,” Viggo Mortensen, and Narrative Mysteries
Jauja, the new film by Argentine director Lisandro Alonso, is a work of singular grace and mystery. Set against the deceptive beauty of 19th-century Patagonia and composnt: 2em;"ed in saturated, old-world color, it stars Viggo Mortensen as a Danish engineer ro...
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No Heroes, No Villains: An Interview with Joel Potrykus of “Buzzard”
The world doesn’t know director Joel Potrykus yet, but they’re about to. Alongside his muse, Joshua Burge, the director has quietly paid his dues on the indie scene in the last few years. With his second feature, Buzzard, a near-unclassifiable American indie t...
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Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn and Liv Corfixen of “My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn”
Nicolas Winding Refn makes hyper-sexed, ultra-violent films with a 1980s neon hue. Pusher, Bronson, and Drive all share a theme of masculine brutality. Audiences anticipated what would come after Drive, his most commercially and critically praised film to date...
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Interview with Amanda Rose Wilder of “Approaching the Elephant”
Amanda Rose Wilder’s first feature, Approaching the Elephant, is set in the first year of the Teddy McArdle Free School in New Jersey. It’s wall-to-wall footage, no narration, all black and white. But it’s not really about alternative education. Instead, the d...
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