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Interviews (10 posts found)
“Ballet 422” Jody Lee Lipes Interview
In advance of the release of the new documentary Ballet 422 from Magnolia Pictures, our interviewer Anna Tatarska recently sat down with its director, Jody Lee Lipes, to discuss his methods, cinematography, and working with Judd Apatow on his new film.
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Euro-Sleazy A: An Interview with Peter Strickland
The Duke of Burgundy, which has become a bit of a film-festival darling in the last several months, follows the ups and downs of a relationship between two women, Cynthia (Sidse Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), who practice sadomasochism in their sprawling...
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The Diet Coke of Gay: An Interview with Desiree Akhavan
Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior, the break-out film for the New York-based director/writer/actress, is a delightful and honest depiction of what it means to be young, Iranian-American and bisexual. The protagonist Shirin, played by the director and loos...
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This Revolution Goes On and On: Director Ava DuVernay on Her New Film “Selma”
There have been a number of groundbreaking films released in 2014, but when racial injustice has become all the more frequent within contemporary American society, no other motion picture feels quite as important, or as timely, as Selma, the latest from Ava Du...
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To Be Okay: An Interview with Shawn Christensen
Only 19 minutes long, Curfew, a short film by writer/director/actor Shawn Christensen, is a dark and redemptive tale about a junkie guy (Christensen) charged with babysitting his 11-year-old niece (Fatima Ptacek) over the course of one long chaotic evening. I ...
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The Space Between Two People: An Interview with John Gallagher Jr.
After leaving a substantial mark on the theater scene with acclaimed performances in blockbuster Broadway musicals like Spring Awakening (for which he won a Tony Award in 2007) and American Idiot, John Gallagher Jr. has, in the past couple years, made inroads ...
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The Man In a Room: Alex Ross Perry
Alex Ross Perry and I are at the tail end of a long discussion about his career when I finally ask him why his movies are so obsessed with loneliness. And then we talked about Paul Schrader.
Perry, 30, is speaking to me on the eve of the release of his thir...
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Bleeding By the End: An Interview with “Whiplash” Director Damien Chazelle
Only 29, Damien Chazelle has already written and directed two feature-length films, the little-seen (no longer, one hopes) Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), and now Whiplash, a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner this past January. Emotionally ...
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The Directors Who Influenced “Dear White People”
Like so many others before me, I fell into the trap: After sitting down with Dear White People director Justin Simien, the first thing I brought up was Spike Lee. And while my comment didn’t directly concern the fact that both Simien and Lee are black American...
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Anne Helen Petersen On the Scandals of Classic Hollywood
Academic turned BuzzFeed writer Anne Helen Petersen sits down with us to talk about her new book on old Hollywood scandals.
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