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Interviews (10 posts found)
Ebertfest: A Discussion with To Music Filmmakers Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen
This morning Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen were kind enough to sit down and discuss their short film that played at Ebertfest yesterday, To Music. You can read my thoughts about the short here. Below is the transcribed discussion we had this morning.
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Short Stuff: Johnny Simmons & Ethan Suplee Express Their Inner Child in Richard Keith’s Grow Up Already
In a world of features, short films rarely get much attention. Yet the best five-minute shorts usually contain more originality and creativity than your average Hollywood blockbuster. That’s why we launched Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising short-fo...
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Interview: Leslye Headland Talks “Doing A Magnolia” For Her Bachelorette Cast And Her New Show Assistance
My recent interview with Bachelorette writer/director Leslye Headland is officially one of my all-time favorites. Our talk ran the gamut from gushing over destroying theater sets in her daring Seven Deadly Plays series to discussing her new TV show Assistance,...
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Short Stuff: Witness the Creation of Life in Richard Man’s Breathtaking Animation Abiogenesis
In a world of features, short films rarely get much attention. Yet the best five-minute shorts usually contain more originality and creativity than your average Hollywood blockbuster. That’s why we launched Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising short-fo...
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Short Stuff: Watch Jason Willis’s Mind Bending, Sundance Award Winning Catnip: Egress to Oblivion
In a world of features, short films rarely get much attention. Yet the best five-minute shorts usually contain more originality and creativity than your average Hollywood blockbuster. That’s why we launched Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising short-fo...
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Interview: Sasha Grey On What It Takes To Survive A Horror Film Like Would You Rather
Several of my male friends were simultaneously jealous and relieved that I got to interview Sasha Grey. The former porn star certainly has an avid fanbase, which follows her despite her decision to retire from the adult film industry in 2011. Some people have ...
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Short Stuff: A Bear Misses His Mother in Stephen Irwin’s Twisted, Morbidly Funny Moxie
In a world of features, short films rarely get much attention. Yet the best five-minute shorts usually contain more originality and creativity than your average Hollywood blockbuster. That’s why we launched Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising short-fo...
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Interview: TOWER Director Kazik Radwanski Talks Character Study, Close-Ups and Indie Filmmaking in Toronto
Beginning today, Friday, February 22nd, the Royal Cinema in Toronto will be screening Kazik Radawanski's debut feature film, Tower. It's quite the debut. A quiet, well-observed study of a thirty something still living in his parents' basement. Tina Hassannia h...
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The Coen Brothers in Nayman’s Terms: The Necessary Means for a Higher Education
Adam Nayman is a well-known figure in the Toronto film community and a critic for The Grid TO and CinemaScope, among other publications. Toronto Correspondent Tina Hassannia had a chance to talk to him about his upcoming course on the Coen brothers, which star...
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Critic Interview: David Ehrlich Talks Making Movies, Twitter Benefits, Film Criticism, the Future and Close-Up.
In this first installment of Critic Interviews I sit down with acclaimed writer David Ehrlich.
Whether he's opining on the latest video-gamed adapted sci-fi movie Silent Hill: Revelation or the new meditative Abbas Kiarostami film Like Someone In Love, David'...
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