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Category Archives: Academy Award Nominee

RAZZIE 2019

Click here to listen to the interview. As I say every year, the only film awards that are bestowed strictly on merit are the ones handed out by the Golden … Continue reading

February 22, 2019 · Leave a comment

Why Is Fox Afraid to Show an Ad for A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN?

  I was delighted when I found out that I would be able to interview Marshall Curry for his Oscar-nominated short film, A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN. The seven-minute film … Continue reading

February 14, 2019 · Leave a comment

The Better Life of Demián Bichir

Click here for the interview with Demián Bichir and Chris Weitz for A BETTER LIFE. In 2003, the Mexican MTV Awards created a special category, Best Bichir in A Movie … Continue reading

September 9, 2018 · Leave a comment

The Detention of Ziad Doueiri

Ziad Doueiri made one of my favorite films of the 2010s, THE ATTACK (2011), about an apolitical Arab doctor in Israel who finds himself suddenly the object of suspicion by … Continue reading

December 28, 2017 · Leave a comment

TANGERINES

There are films that tear you limb from limb with their shrill bombast and flagrant moralizing, and then there are films like TANGERINES, that quietly break your heart with the … Continue reading

May 15, 2015 · 1 Comment

JUPITER ASCENDING. Not.

The Wachowskis know how to produce a spectacle. In that, they may very well be the cinematic heirs of Cecil B. DeMille, whose films featured showmanship of the highest caliber, … Continue reading

February 4, 2015 · Leave a comment

THE LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM — Rory Kennedy Interview

I speak as someone who can remember the fall of Saigon, and the iconic images that graces magazine covers in the days and weeks that followed. Yet, when I saw … Continue reading

January 21, 2015 · Leave a comment