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Tag Archives: interviews
It’s Ron Eldard’s Birthday: the first famous person I interviewed
Here’s the story of the first famous person I interviewed – an actor I had admired for a long time: Mr. Ron Eldard. I saw the excellent Roadie at the Tribeca Film Festival. Eldard plays a roadie fired from his … Continue reading
For Liberties: Interview with Sean Abley, co-editor of Queer Horror: A Film Guide
For the next essay in my “Movies Before Breakfast” column at Liberties magazine, I interviewed Sean Abley about his upcoming book Queer Horror: A Film Guide (a book which he co-edited). 8 writers are on the marquee, all of whom … Continue reading
Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol: a QA with author Jeremy Richey
When I first started to “swerve” my blog away from diary-like entries to a focus on film and books, there were a couple of people whose example I followed, or who, at least, were fully doing what I was already … Continue reading
“The camera is always where it needs to be with him.” — Interview with Dana Stevens, author of Camera Man
I interviewed Dana Stevens about her wonderful book Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century, after a screening of Keaton’s The General last week at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport, Rhode … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Books, Directors, Movies, writers
Tagged Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, interviews, silent films
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Interview with Jennifer McCabe: On-camera Acting Training and the Actor’s Process
Jennifer McCabe has been teaching acting and directing in various capacities for almost 25 years. After getting her Master’s through the MFA program at the Actors Studio, she first worked with Enact, a not-for-profit arts-in-education company which goes into at-risk … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Directors, Movies, Television
Tagged Al Pacino, Charlie Chaplin, Cher, interviews, Jerry Lewis, John Patrick Shanley, Lee Strasberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Michael Caine, Montgomery Clift, Robert De Niro, Sanford Meisner, Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, women directors
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Present Tense: On Rukus: An interview with director Brett Hanover
For my next “Present Tense” column at Film Comment, I interviewed director Brett Hanover about his film Rukus, which we awarded Best Feature in the “Hometowners” category at Indie Memphis last year. A documentary-narrative hybrid, Rukus is a coming-of-age story, … Continue reading
Visiting “The Beautiful Place”: An Interview with Lian Lunson, director of Waiting for the Miracle to Come (2019)
“If only our parents were born at the same moment we were. How much heartache would be spared. But parents and children can go only go after each other, not with each other. And the distance always lies between us, … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Charlotte Rampling, drama, Elvis Presley, interviews, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, women directors
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“Masters of the Acting Art”: An Interview with Author Dan Callahan
Dan Callahan is one of our best writers on the craft of acting. Not only does he describe why a performance is good, he digs into the much thornier issue of how it is good. This is where most critics … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Movies
Tagged Al Pacino, Cate Blanchett, Charles Laughton, Diane Keaton, Dustin Hoffman, Ellen Burstyn, Faye Dunaway, Gena Rowlands, interviews, John Cassavetes, Judy Davis, Laurence Olivier, Lee Strasberg, Maggie Smith, Marlon Brando, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Patricia Clarkson, River Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Stella Adler
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You & Me (2018): An interview with director Alexander Baack
“Thankfully, there are so many more interesting things about me than my being deaf.” Ella (Hillary Baack) says this to a well-meaning person at a party who has been asking questions about her deafness. Ella has answered the questions. She … Continue reading
From Lillian Gish to James Dean: My Interview with Dan Callahan
I had a lot of fun interviewing Dan Callahan about his new book The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960. It’s now up at Slant Magazine: Mystery of Screen Acting: An Interview with Dan Callahan.
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Tagged Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant, friends, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Holiday, Humphrey Bogart, interviews, James Cagney, James Dean, Joan Crawford, Josef von Sternberg, Katharine Hepburn, Kim Stanley, Lillian Gish, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Marlon Brando
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