A few days ago, when I read an Associated Press report stating that US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s church “is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into…
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A few weeks ago, when I began watching a screener of director-screenwriter-etc-etc. Brian Pera’s The Way I See Things, I had no idea what to expect. At first, I wasn’t…
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Cao Hamburger directed The Year My Parents Went on Vacation. Set in 1970, the year Brazil (or rather, the soccer team representing the country) won the World Cup, O Ano em…
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Darren Lynn Bousman and Alexa Vega. On July 18, the day of the world premiere of Repo! The Genetic Opera, I was fortunate enough to be able to interview the…
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Repo! The Genetic Opera by Darren Lynn Bousman. Bill Moseley & Terrance Zdunich discuss Repo: The Genetic Opera On Friday, July 18, I got to sit with horror-film acting legend…
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The life of Darby Crash and the Germs was based around a five-year plan. Director Rodger Grossman would spend triple that amount of time making a film version of the…
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François Cluzet in Tell No One. Several weeks ago, I chatted with actor-director-screenwriter Guillaume Canet, 35, at a West Hollywood hotel where Canet was promoting his romantic thriller Tell No…
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Chop Shop by Ramin Bahrani. Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop, which opens today in Los Angeles, has received widespread praise since its premiere at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The French…
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Formerly known as Padre Nuestro (not to be confused with Rodrigo Sepúlveda’s Chilean drama of the same name), screenwriter-director Christopher Zalla’s debut feature Sangre de Mi Sangre (“Blood of My…
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Water Lilies movie with Adèle Haenel and Pauline Acquart. Filmmaker Céline Sciamma briefly discusses the lesbian coming-of-age drama Water Lilies. “Watching the film I want the audience to embrace the…
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Inspired by the “Red Roofs” segment from Dan Verete’s three-part 2002 Israeli drama Yellow Asphalt, which revolves around the lives of Bedouins in the Judean desert, the visually lush Before…
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While London’s Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is proceeding at full speed, here’s a brief q&a (via e-mail) with Lisa Daniel, the director of another gay film festival elsewhere in…
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Jellyfish movie with Ilanit Ben Yaakov and Sarah Adler. I caught Jellyfish (Meduzot in Hebrew), which opens in New York tomorrow and in Los Angeles on April 25, at the…
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Celebrities in the 1930 Census Q&A: Greta Garbo, Gangsters Go Missing while Marie Dressler and Mae West Find Fountain of Youth.
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Marie Dressler in Dinner at Eight. It’s Oscar time. What better way to celebrate the 2008 Academy Awards than by having a q&a about the best actress Oscar winner ……
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VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE: Part I What was it like to make a movie in Kosovo, one of the world’s most volatile areas? LB: Kosovo used to be extremely volatile;…
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Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of the biggest box office hits of the silent era. Eighty-six years after its original release, Rex…
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Author and film historian Anthony Slide has another book out, (politically) Incorrect Entertainment or Trash from the Past: A history of political incorrectness and bad taste in 20th century American…
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Examples of extravagance in the world’s film capital: The Hollywood Book of Extravagance. The Hollywood Book of Extravagance. How do you write something with that sort of title without falling…
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I’ve already mentioned film historian Anthony Slide’s great-looking new book Now Playing, which documents the work of artists who created movie posters for urban movie palaces and neighborhood theaters alike,…
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Gay kiss: Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny in Boys Don’t Cry (top); Eduardo Noriega and Leonardo Sbaraglia in Burnt Money (bottom). The most famous – and most effective – sequence in Giuseppe…
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Barbara Payton. “Promising careers that don’t pan out, I always want to find out what caused it,” John O’Dowd told the Star Ledger. “Superstars [of today in particular] are written…
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Molly Beck Ferguson sings for homeless man William Fiala, who also happens to be the co-director of Cubicle: The Musicle I’ve known Tibor Szakaly for a couple of years. Each…
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Fatty Arbuckle a.k.a. Roscoe Arbuckle or Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle: One of the early silent era most popular comedians. Film researcher Joan Myers has been working on a book project that…
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June Mathis / © Allan Ellenberger Collection June Mathis. The name means nothing to most of today’s filmgoers and to the vast majority of self-proclaimed film historians. Yet, nearly nine…
The Betrayal Ellen Kuras documentary. Directed by Ellen Kuras, with the assistance of her film’s main subject, Thavisouk Phrasavath (who shares co-director credit), The Betrayal: Nerakhoon follows a family of…
Chris & Don. A Love Story: Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. Tina Mascara and Guido Santi’s Chris & Don. A Love Story opened today in New York City and will…
Refusenik, a documentary directed by Laura Bialis, chronicles the thirty-year grassroots movement to free Soviet Jews. (Read Ella Taylor’s positive – if sobering – review in The Village Voice.) Refusenik…
Edmund Goulding directs a young Joan Crawford in the MGM melodrama Sally, Irene and Mary (1925) at the beginning of their, respectively, directorial and acting careers. Image: Matthew Kennedy Collection.…
View from the Bridge: Stories from Kosovo filmmakers John Ealer and Laura Bialis. Directed by John Ealer and Laura Bialis (above), View from the Bridge: Stories from Kosovo, described on…
Back in the late 1920s, Anita Page could never have dreamed that eight decades later she would be a celebrity of sorts: The Official Last Surviving Silent Film Star. In…
Joan Crawford. Some have called her the greatest movie star ever, but even if that’s a sort of exaggeration – how does one measure stardom-ness? – Joan Crawford most likely…