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PINEAPPLE EXPRESS – Seth Rogen, James Franco
Pineapple Express (2008) Direction: David Gordon Green. Screenplay: Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen; from a story by Goldberg, Rogen, and Judd Apatow. Cast: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Craig Robinson, Kevin Corrigan I saw the newest Apatovian effort, Pineapple Express, at a Just for Laughs Film Festival press screening in Montreal. Directed by David Gordon Green, with a [...]
VIVA: Q&A with Anna Biller
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview writer, director, actress, editor, and designer Anna Biller who, as should be clear, is the definition of auteur. She began producing her plays in 1995. Her first short film, Three Examples of Myself as a Queen, was made in 1994, and was followed by Fairy Ballet in 1998, and three short films in 2001: The Lady Cat, The [...]
BAGHDAD HIGH Ivan O’Mahoney and Laura Winter
The Boys from Baghdad High / Baghdad High (TV, 2008) Direction: Ivan O’Mahoney and Laura Winter. Featuring: Hayder Khalid, Mohammad Raed, Anmar Refat, Ali Shadman When I sat down to watch Ivan O’Mahoney and Laura Winter’s Baghdad High — The Boys of Baghdad High in the United Kingdom, where it was initially shown — I didn’t know what to expect. Baghdad High is [...]
REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA: Darren Lynn Bousman, Alexa Vega Interview
On July 18, the day of the world premiere of Repo! The Genetic Opera, I was fortunate enough to be able to interview the film’s director, Darren Lynn Bousman, best known for his Saw films, and star, Alexa Vega, of Spy Kids fame, at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. They had been doing interviews all morning and I was around for some of that [...]