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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Interviews</title>
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		<title>THE FUPLERS: Q&amp;A with Matt Koval</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/matt-koval-interview-the-fuplers-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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There are few web series that I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching; of those, Matt Koval&#8217;s &#34;The Fuplers&#34; is probably my favorite. The series chronicles the table-time interactions of your typical Mondo Bizarro family, with Koval playing Mom, Dad, Teen Son, and lithping, pig-tailed Little Daughter. 
According to Koval&#8217;s  profile on his website, in one year his 20-video YouTube channel has grown   from 50 to 50,000 subscribers, while &#34;The Fuplers&#34; has been averaging 300,000 views per episode. Additionally, earlier this year Koval  wrote and directed a web series for Fox Digital Studios.
The Los Angeles-based filmmaker has also done work away from the Internet. Among his film credits are Ryan Craig&#8217;s feature  Small Town Saturday Night,  starring Star [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRECIOUS Music: Q&amp;A with Composer Mario Grigorov</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/precious-music-mario-grigorov-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The son of a concert pianist and trumpeter, Bulgarian-born, Austrian-trained composer Mario Grigorov has been creating film music for two decades, having become particularly busy in the last ten years or so. Among his movie credits are Leonardo Ricagni&#8217;s  29 Palms (1999) and El chevrolé (2002), Alison Thompson&#8217;s documentary The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story (2007), additional music for Alex Gibney&#8217;s Oscar-winning Iraq War documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, and a number of short films.
Grigorov&#8217;s other music credits include the albums &#34;Rhymes with Orange&#34; and &#34;Aria on Café del Mar,&#34; musical scores for numerous  commercial outlets, and even playing in the Shah&#8217;s Symphony Orchestra in Iran, where Grigorov lived for six years. &#34;Both on disc and onstage,&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro III: Anita Page, Murder, Life As a Gay Man</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/ramon-novarro-ellenberger-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Anita Page, Ramon Novarro in The Flying Fleet

Ramon Novarro: Allan Ellenberger Interview II
Ramon Novarro and Anita Page. Do you  believe he actually asked her hand in marriage as she claimed later in life?
I do, and the main reason is that I knew Anita Page  and interviewed her extensively for over a year before her health really began  to decline. At that point, she would have short-term memory loss due to a stroke,  which made interviewing her more difficult. That, and the image that she  presented to the world in some ways made her appear unreliable. All I know is  that I was able to prove most of the stories she told me with secondary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro II: Best Films, Rex Ingram</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ramon-novarro-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro in The Cat and the Fiddle. Photo: Courtesy Matias Bombal Collection.

Ramon Novarro: Allan Ellenberger Interview I
 How would you describe Ramon Novarro  the actor?
Novarro was a first-rate actor – maybe not an  Olivier, but a good solid actor. Even in bad films such as Laughing Boy (1934),  he had his moments. He was excellent in dramatic roles such as the aviator Alexis Rosanoff  opposite Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931), or as the rapist-suitor of Myrna Loy  in The Barbarian (1933). He excelled in light comedic moments, especially in  The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and in several of his musicals including The Cat  and the Fiddle (1934) and The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actors]]></category>
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I first contacted author Allan Ellenberger  shortly before the publication of his book on Old Hollywood star Ramon Novarro, as at the time I  was working on my own Novarro bio. Instead of treating me like a pesky rival, Allan generously shared the information he&#8217;d amassed throughout about a decade of research &#8212; and for that I was very thankful.
We&#8217;ve since become good friends (but Allan, you need to buy me pizza more often), so I&#8217;m glad to report that his Ramon Novarro (McFarland, 1999) is now available in paperback at online bookstores. In his carefully researched book (I&#8217;ve read it about four or five times), Allan discusses Ramon Novarro&#8217;s life and career from his early beginnings in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN: Q&amp;A with Oliver Hirschbiegel</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/oliver-hirschbiegel-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Inspired by  a true incident that occurred in Northern Ireland in the mid-1970s, while placing the real-life participants in a fictitious set-up, Five Minutes of Heaven stars Liam Neeson as Alistair Little, the former leader of an Ulster Volunteer Force cell who, as a teenager, shot in the head a young Catholic man, James Griffin, in front of his 11-year-old brother, Joe Griffin (played by  British Independent Film Award winner, and Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee James Nesbitt).
Written by Guy Hibbert (who wrote Omagh, winner of the Irish Film &#38; Television Academy&#8217;s 2004 best film award) and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (above right, whose Downfall was nominated for a best foreign-language film Oscar), Five Minutes of Heaven explores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PASSENGER SIDE: Q&amp;A with Matt Bissonnette</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/passenger-side-matt-bissonnette-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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In Matt Bissonnette&#8217;s psychological comedy-drama Passenger Side, recently screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival, two brothers go on a road trip throughout the Los Angeles area and the desert nearby. 
Michael Brown (Adam Scott) begins his birthday with a telephone call from his estranged brother, Tobey (Joel Bissonnette), who has a long history of drug addiction. Tobey needs a ride to several places throughout town, but is initially reluctant to explain exactly where he wants to go and why. Just as reluctantly, Michael becomes Tobey&#8217;s chauffeur for the day.

What happens next is a series of vignettes featuring disparate characters in the Southern California landscape, among them a transvestite sex worker (Vitta Quinn, above), a  young migrant worker who&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRAINING RULES: Q&amp;A with Dee Mosbacher</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/training-rules-dee-mosbacher-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Winner of the audience award for best documentary at the 2009 edition of San Francisco&#8217;s gay film festival, Frameline, Dee Mosbacher (right) and Fawn Yacker&#8217;s Training Rules &#8212; screening at Outfest tomorrow, July 11, at 4:30pm at the FAIRFAX 1 (on a double bill with Elizabeth Hesik&#8217;s Lady Trojans) &#8212; tackles the issue of anti-gay bigotry in women&#8217;s sports, particularly at  the Pennsylvania State University.
 For nearly three decades, Penn State&#8217;s  Lady Lions basketball coach Rene Portland (above, lower photo), known as &#34;The Mommy Coach,&#34; insisted that in her  team there would be absolutely no drugs, no booze, and no lesbians &#8212; purportedly with the intent of removing the stigma of lesbianism from women&#8217;s sports. In 2006, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRAINING RULES: Dee Mosbacher Interview II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/dee-mosbacher-training-rules-interview-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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TRAINING RULES: Q&#038;A with Dee Mosbacher: Part I
 Have you heard from Rene Portland &#8212; or anyone associated with her &#8212; after the film was completed?
No. We made a diligent effort to find her, but it was clear she had no interest in talking to us.
I would like to clarify something.  Although we&#8217;ve been discussing the Penn State case, I want to make sure that you understand that this form of discrimination, based on sexual orientation goes on every day at colleges, universities, high schools and in professional sports. And it happens to both women and men, albeit in very different ways.
&#160;
 So, what about men&#8217;s sports? Would you say that blatant homophobia is an issue there as well? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jason Bushman Interview II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/jason-bushman-interview-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jason Bushman Interview &#8211; Part I
My favorite line in the movie has to do with the un-specialness of nonstop sunshine. You show a very deglamorized &#8212; i.e., very real &#8212; Los Angeles in Hollywood, je t&#8217;aime, e.g., people riding buses, homeless people in the streets, dingy motels, etc. Since you&#8217;ve referred to Hollywood, je t&#8217;aime as your &#34;love letter&#34; to LA, were you ever tempted to glamorize the place? 
What I love about Los Angeles isn’t the glamour, and glamour doesn’t turn me on. I live in Silver Lake, and I only ever go to Beverly Hills when I have to, for business or a doctor’s appointment. (That’s not to say the Eastside doesn’t have it’s own bobo snobbiness, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOLLYWOOD, JE T&#8217;AIME: Q&amp;A with Jason Bushman</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/jason-bushman-hollywood-je-taime-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Writer-director Jason Bushman&#8217;s feature-film debut, Hollywood, je t&#8217;aime was recently screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The tale of a Frenchman befriended by a handful of social outcasts while looking for Hollywood stardom, Hollywood je t&#8217;aime turned out to be a quirky, funny, touching revelation. The good news is that those who missed the film at LAFF will now get the chance to check it out at Outfest, where it&#8217;ll be screened on Friday, July 17, at 8:30 at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.
In Hollywood, je t&#8217;aime Eric Debets plays Jérôme Beaunez (pronounced &#34;Bea-nie&#34; by a clueless casting director), a befuddled blend of Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton, and Adrien Brody. (&#34;Beaunez&#34; literally means &#34;Beautiful Nose.&#34;) After being dumped by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesse Rosen Interview II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/jesse-rosen-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jesse Rosen Interview: Part I
Your fellow The Art of Being Straight cast members. Where were they found? Why did you choose them? And what was it like handling actors, most of whom had little-to-no experience performing in front of a camera?
Many of the cast were old friends or acquaintances from Emerson College, who just simply came to auditions and blew everyone away. I remember rummaging through friends and friends of friends on Myspace, or LA casting websites.
 I think for people with lesser experience in front of the camera, like myself, we just focused on simply telling this story the best way we could. I did have some interesting casting experiences though, most notably for Paul, the older man. Amy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ART OF BEING STRAIGHT: Q&amp;A with Jesse Rosen</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/the-art-of-being-straight-jesse-rosen-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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In Jesse Rosen&#8217;s feature-film debut, The Art of Being Straight, 23-year-old Jon (played by Rosen himself), recently arrived in Los Angeles after leaving behind his girlfriend in New York, discovers that Southern California has more than sunshine and hot chicks to offer. Like, a hot-in-the-pants (male) boss who simply won&#8217;t take no for an answer. So, that leads to a kiss, which leads to some more intimate stuff, which leads to self-denial, identity issues, and problems with anti-gay buddies. Being straight &#8212; if you ain&#8217;t, really &#8212; is not just an art form. In fact, it&#8217;s a chore.
In writer-director Rosen&#8217;s laidback, unpretentious dramatic comedy, which is currently playing at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills in addition to being available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Provost Interview II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/martin-provost-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Martin Provost Interview: Part I
What was it like working with Yolande Moreau? What was needed to make her really get  into the skin of a historical character? 
For a year we got to know one another. I believe I did my best to guide her  toward her own best, to something she already had within herself. And toward Séraphine as well. It&#8217;s not easy to incarnate someone who was once alive. It&#8217;s necessary to have decency and respect. I believe we shared the same vision for Séraphine. Yolande had to learn to sing, to paint; it was all a learning experience, something that made her very happy. And from the first day of shooting, we were in full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SÉRAPHINE: Q&amp;A with Martin Provost</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/seraphine-martin-provost-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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The winner of 7 French Academy Awards, including best film, best original screenplay, and best actress, Martin Provost&#8217;s Séraphine stars Yolande Moreau as painter Séraphine Louis, aka Séraphine de Senlis, a plain, poor, uncultured, devoutly Catholic, and emotionally unbalanced housekeeper who became known as a major artistic talent in the early 20th century.
Written by Provost and Marc Abdelnour, Séraphine focuses on the artist&#8217;s relationship with avant-garde art dealer Wilhelm Uhde (played by Ulrich Tukur), who one day discovered that his cleaning lady in the town of Senlis was a masterful painter. 
A sleeper hit in France, Séraphine has been met with raves on this side of the Atlantic as well. The LA Weekly&#8217;s Scott Foundas called it &#34;the best movie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phill Hall on THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA III</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/phill-hall-independent-cinema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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  Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Phil Hall Interview: Part I
Phil Hall Interview: Part II
What have been the top foreign influences on American independent filmmaking?
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the European avant-garde films of the 1920s were a huge influence on U.S. underground filmmakers. The Italian neo-realism in the post-World War II era had a strong impact, primarily because it enabled filmmakers to adopt an obvious low-budget approach &#8212; with the caveat that the film was appropriately gritty enough to warrant the glamour-free style.
The 1962 Italian feature Mondo Cane helped to inaugurate the shockumentary filmmaking school that is still with us. More recently, the Dogme school of filmmaking had a flurry of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Hall Interview II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/books/phil-hall-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Mary Pickford, one of the first major independent producers, and screenwriter Frances Marion

Phil Hall Interview: Part I
The History of Independent Cinema. I&#8217;m assuming that refers to US-made films. Even so, that&#8217;s a lot of ground to cover. What sort of parameters did you have to use in order to condense that very long and very diverse history into one volume?
Clearly, I could not accommodate every independent film into the book.  I decided to focus primarily on films and creative artists that made a significant contribution to the commercial and/or artistic development of film production and distribution. That helped to eliminate many obscure films and filmmakers from coverage.
There are two genres that were not pursued in depth. I opted not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA: Q&amp;A with Phil Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/the-history-of-independent-cinema-phil-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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&#34;Independent film is a vast and varied territory, and Phil  Hall&#8217;s remarkable book explores every inch of it with wit, intelligence, a  sympathetic spirit, and a wide-open mind. Fresh discoveries and surprising  revelations abound on every topic from Edison to Aronofsky, Anger to Warhol,  the silent era to the Internet age. It&#8217;s hard to imagine a study more keenly in  tune with one of cinema&#8217;s liveliest, most multifaceted fields.”  &#8212; David  Sterritt, Ph.D, chairman, National Society of Film Critics
The  &#34;remarkable book&#34; in question is called The History of Independent Cinema, which, as the title implies, covers the century-long development of American filmmaking outside the big-studio lots. Published by BearManor Media, The History [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEMON TREE: Q&amp;A with Eran Riklis</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/lemon-tree-eran-riklis-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Based on actual events, Eran Riklis&#8216; Lemon Tree (no connection to Sandy Tolan&#8217;s novel The Lemon Tree), which opens today in the Los Angeles area, chronicles a Palestinian widow&#8217;s fight to prevent the Israeli army from razing  her lemon grove. The problem is that all those lemon trees are  located right next door to the brand new house &#8212; actually, &#34;fortress&#34; would be a better description &#8212; of the Israeli minister of defense. Security agents have deemed the grove a potential hide-out for terrorists, who could then fire rockets right onto the minister&#8217;s dining table.
Sounds like a political film? Well, sure. Lemon Tree is definitely political. (The real-life case was that of defense minister Shaul Mofaz and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEMON TREE: Q&amp;A with Eran Riklis Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/eran-riklis-interview-lemon-tree-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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LEMON TREE: Q&#038;A with Eran Riklis Part I
Along those lines, the men in charge in Lemon Tree don&#8217;t come  across in a very positive light. A bossy male security agent demands  the destruction of the lemon grove. A bossy Palestinian man threatens  Salma because of her relationship with her lawyer. The defense minister  is obsessed with his career and may be having an affair with an  assistant. The Palestinian lawyer himself seems to be as interested in  advancing his career as in helping Salma, even though he actually cares  for her.
The two women, however, are both admirable characters. Was  that a conscious decision, to make the women &#8220;stronger&#8221; &#8212; in their  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN BAISER S&#8217;IL VOUS PLAIT: Interview avec Emmanuel Mouret</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/un-baiser-sil-vous-plait-interview-avec-emmanuel-mouret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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English version of the Emmanuel Mouret interview.
&#160; 
Quelle  était votre inspiration pour l’histoire de Un baiser s’il vou plaît?
En ce qui concerne l&#8217;histoire, elle a été plus inspirée par ma vie personnelle que par un film en particulier. Mais ma vie est à l&#8217;image  de beaucoup d&#8217;autres vies et il s&#8217;agit d&#8217;une situation finalement très commune, et  cependant exceptionnelle pour celui qui est traversé par elle.
&#160;
 Pour quoi le choix d’avoir l’histoire principale – celle entre Nicolas et Judith – être un sorte de “flashback”?
Parce que cela correspond aux allers et retours que fait notre pensées lorsqu&#8217;on est sexuellement tenté. Nous nous interrogeons en nous remémorant des situations similaires à la notre et leurs conséquences. Dans ces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMERICAN SWING: Q&amp;A with Co-Director Jon Hart</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/american-swing-jon-hart-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Jon Hart and Mathew Kaufman&#8217;s entertaining documentary American Swing  chronicles the rise and fall of Larry Levenson, whose nightclub &#38; sex club Plato&#8217;s Retreat became, along with Studio 54, one of the top New York City hangouts of the late 1970s.
Jon Hart (right) has kindly answered (via e-mail) a few brief questions about American Swing. See below.
American Swing is currently playing at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood.
Photos: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
&#160;
How difficult (or easy) was it to get all those people who had worked at or gone to Plato&#8217;s Retreat to be so candid about their experiences at the club? Did you run into many who refused to discuss the past?
Almost everyone was extremely apprehensive about being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY HOLIDAYS: Q&amp;A with Filmmaker James C. Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m always happy when a filmmaker is inspired by Woody Allen &#8212; as opposed to, say, Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder. 
Case in point: First-timer James C. Ferguson (right, in blue), whose Happy Holidays (written by Ferguson and Tom Misuraca) is a three-way character study about old school friends who are reunited   at their Connecticut hometown for a brief period right before Christmas. During that time, deeply buried emotions burst to the surface, old secrets are revealed, and one character ends up suffering a  nervous breakdown. Old buddies can do that to you.
Shot in black in white during the course of two weeks, Happy Holidays features Paul Hungerford as Patrick Donovan, an openly gay man and avowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE SINGING REVOLUTION: Q&amp;A with Filmmakers James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/the-singing-revolution-james-tusty-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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&#34;Imagine the scene in  Casablanca  in which the French patrons sing &#8216;La Marseillaise&#8217; in defiance of the Germans, then multiply its power by a factor of  thousands, and you’ve only begun to imagine the force of The Singing  Revolution,&#34; wrote Matt Zoller Seitz in the New York Times in his review of James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty&#8217;s documentary about Estonia’s struggle to end Soviet occupation in the late 1980s and early 1990s. 
The curiously titled The Singing Revolution chronicles the history behind the little-known, nonviolent protests that began in the late 1980s in the small Baltic republic of Estonia, which had been annexed by the Soviet Union nearly half a century earlier. 
With glasnost and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEADING COUPLES: Q&amp;A with Author Frank Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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In Leading Couples: The Most Unforgettable Screen Romances of the Studio Era (Chronicle Books, 2008), author  Frank Miller,  whose previous books include Leading Ladies, Leading Men, and Censored Hollywood, presents nearly forty highly successful movie pairings from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Among those featured in Leading Couples are dancing lovebirds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, singing lovebirds Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, singing &#38; dancing lovebirds  Betty Grable and Dan Dailey, sparring lovebirds Doris Day and Rock Hudson, and costumed lovebirds Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn (above, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex).
Also,  odd lovebirds Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery, sentimental lovebirds Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, cool lovebirds Alan Ladd and Veronica [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irving Thalberg: Q&amp;A with Mark Vieira</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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&#34;The Wedding of the Painted Doll&#34; number from the  musical The Broadway Melody (1929), the first talkie to win a best picture Academy Award; Louis B. Mayer, director Reginald Barker, Irving Thalberg on the set of The Dixie Handicap (1925); Norma Shearer and Chester Morris in the popular pre-Code melodrama The Divorcee (1930).
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HOLLYWOOD DREAMS MADE REAL: IRVING THALBERG AND THE RISE OF M-G-M &#8212; Q&#038;A with Mark Vieira (Introduction)
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 First of all, why did you decide to  write a book on Irving Thalberg? 
Ben-Hur,  Flesh and the Devil, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty, A  Night at the Opera, The Good Earth &#8212; most filmgoers today have heard of these  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOLLYWOOD DREAMS MADE REAL: IRVING THALBERG AND THE RISE OF M-G-M &#8211; Q&amp;A with Mark Vieira</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Author and photographer Mark A. Vieira (right), who&#8217;s been a friend for a number of years, has recently written no less than two books on Irving G. Thalberg, the young MGM mogul whose high-quality productions earned him both a reputation as Hollywood&#8217;s &#34;Boy Wonder&#34; and a special place in Oscar history as the name attached to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; Memorial Award given to “creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.” Thalberg even inspired a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, the unfinished  The Last Tycoon.
Now, Mark&#8217;s two books may cover the same ground in terms of subject matter, but they&#8217;re radically different in terms of approach to same:
Hollywood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Spaltro Interview II</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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David Spaltro Interview Part I
What about Molly Ryman? Is her character based on a real person? 
Molly  was an absolute joy to work with and a real find for the role of  Allyson, which is based mostly on one real person and also a few  others. She was cast in a marathon casting session in January &#8216;07 out  of thirty NY actresses. Other than being a very gifted actress and  a classically beautiful girl, she has the ability to walk into a room and  light it up with just a genuine sweetness and energy. She’s so  committed to the work  that her level of excitement about it brings up  everyone on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;AROUND: Q&amp;A with David Spaltro</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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 David Spaltro&#8217;s &#8230;Around is appropriately subtitled, &#34;Embrace the Fall.&#34; For &#34;falling&#34; &#8212; both emotionally and financially &#8212; is what happens to the film&#8217;s protagonist,  whose hurdles are based on writer-director Spaltro&#8217;s own experiences while studying film at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
 &#8230;Around follows the travails of  Doyle (Rob Evans &#8212; a better-looking and more naturalistic James Stewart type), a young film student from a highly dysfunctional family who suddenly finds himself without the means to pay for a place to live in pricey New York. As a result, home becomes where Penn Station is.
Curiously, the film&#8217;s chief concern is not Doyle&#8217;s struggle to come out of poverty or to succeed in film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miriam Hopkins IV: Hollywood Blacklist, Bette Davis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins III: BECKY SHARP
Miriam Hopkins blacklisted during the post-war anti-Red hysteria? Why? And how come that fact &#8212; to the best of my knowledge &#8212; has never been discussed anywhere?
 During the late &#8217;30s and throughout the &#8217;40s, Hopkins was involved with several political and social groups that were considered fronts for the Communist Party. These groups included the Motion Picture Democratic Committee (of which Hopkins was 2nd vice president) and the incendiary League of Women Shoppers. 
 In 1945, Louis Bundenz, a Communist Party functionary and the managing editor of the Daily Worker, renounced communism and in 1950 created a “List of 400 Concealed Communists” for the FBI. Miriam Hopkins was on that list. Of course she wasn’t [...]]]></description>
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