Interviews
Amy Seimetz, Kate Sheil and Kentucker Audley (Sun Don’t Shine) | Interview
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012Writer-director Amy Seimetz is being purposefully secretive about her narrative debut, Sun Don’t Shine, which certainly is one of those films that should be viewed with little to no information about the plot. Two young lovers, Crystal (Kate Sheil) and Leo (Kentucker Audley), are covered in sweat and grime as they drive across Florida in a [...]
Ya’Ke Smith (Wolf) | Interview
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Wolf works incredibly well because writer-director Ya’Ke Smith grounds the film firmly in reality, fully fleshing out his characters and never over-dramatizing their actions. (Smith certainly could not have done this without Jordan Cooper, Shelton Jolivette, Mikala Gibson, Irma P. Hall and Eugene Lee’s awe-inspiring performances.) The unbridled realism is what gives Wolf its gut-wrenching [...]
Ashely Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model) | Interview
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s Girl Model is not a Frontline exposé of the modeling industry; the purpose of this documentary is to construct a complex portrait of their subjects without pointing fingers or condemning anyone. The project was conceived when Ashley — a teen model scout — contacted them. Through Ashley, Redmon and Sabin [...]
Kat Candler (Hellion) | Interview
Thursday, March 8th, 2012Kat Candler’s six-minute short film Hellion promises to grow — funding-permitted — into a mayhem-filled feature-length film; but, for now, the short serves as a medias in res introduction to three young brothers (Deke Garner, Arthur Dale and Tommy Hohl) and their incredibly rambunctious ways. On the day that we meet the three hellions, we [...]
Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) | Interview
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a documentary portrait of contemporary Chinese artist and political activist — Ai Weiwei. “Who is Ai Weiwei?” asked Lucy Birmingham in one of her articles. According to Chinese authorities, he is a dissident to be watched, one whose inflammatory blog needed to be silenced. But to others, the Chinese conceptual [...]
Carol Channing (Carol Channing: Larger Than Life) | Interview
Friday, February 3rd, 2012The life story of legendary performer and Carol Channing (“Hello Dolly”) is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile. CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE captures the magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon—both onstage and off…past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway’s most glamorous era. It is, above all, a look at an inspiring, incomparable and always entertaining American legend. Directed and co-written by Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway, Gotta Dance), a three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer. Starring Carol Channing, Harry Kullijian, Loni Anderson, Mary Jo Catlett, Marge Champion, Tyne Daly, Phyllis Diller, Betty Garrett, Tippi Hedren, Jerry Herman, Angela Lansbury, Rich Little, Bob Mackie, Jimmy Nederlander Sr., Debbie Reynolds, Chita Rivera, Harvey Sabinson, George Schlatter, Richard Skipper, Lily Tomlin, Tommy Tune, Bruce Vilanch, Barbara Walters and JoAnne Worley. Carol Channing is also a beloved San Francisco institution, having grown up and first introduced to the stage in the City. -Entertainment One US
Carol was recently kind enough to sit down and answer a few questions about her experiences below.
Eric Schaeffer (After Fall, Winter) | Interview
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012It seems as though films that portray characters who do not abide by vanilla heterosexual behavior in favorable and sympathetic perspectives are a dime a dozen these days. All of these films share a very similar message — we need to be honest about our sexuality, first and foremost with our lovers. Writer-director Eric Schaeffer’s [...]
Keith Miller (Welcome to Pine Hill) | Slamdance 2012 Interview
Sunday, January 29th, 2012The winner of the Grand Jury Sparky Award for Feature Narrative at Slamdance 2012, Welcome to Pine Hill is the most naturally positive portrayal of a black character that I have ever seen dedicated to film — and I am incredibly embarrassed to say that if I knew that a white guy directed Welcome to [...]
Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure) | Interview
Thursday, January 19th, 2012A series of tapes featuring two bickering San Francisco men with a penchant for profanity so flamboyantly profane that even Jack Rebney (Winnebago Man) might blush at the sound of it were recorded in the late 1980s by two young punks, Mitch Deprey and Eddie Lee Sausage. The unaware neighbors of the audio misadventures, Peter [...]
Clio Barnard (The Arbor) | Interview
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Andrea Dunbar — the West Yorkshire author of three gritty social-realist plays who died in 1990 of a brain hemorrhage at the ripe young age of 29 — is the hapless subject of writer-director Clio Barnard’s latest genre-blurring film, The Arbor. The dialogue in The Arbor is derived directly from interviews conducted by Barnard of [...]
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