The first ROLFCon took place last week. The official website describes the gathering this way, “Mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy academics, a big audience, dump them in Cambridge, MA and you’ve got ROFLCon.” It’s the most recent edition to a long list of fests and cons I would go [...]
Kevin reflects on the shifting economics of an elusive product: film criticism.
Who could boycott the late great Charlton Heston? He was so funny!
Documentaries that don’t suck! An interview with AJ Schnack, founder of new doc award the Cinema Eye Honors. Plus an interview with Cinema Eye winning director Jason Kohn of MANDA BALA.
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2008 SXSW Special Jury Prize winning documentary Full Battle Rattle manages to find a unique way to examine the War in Iraq. Rather than bring their cameras into an actual war zone, they decided to look at a simulated war zone, the U.S. Army’s training facility in the Mojave Desert. I talked to directors Tony [...]
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March 14, 2008 – 10:00 am
Jon Polito’s pencil-thin mustache and raging temper have been a feature of many Coen Brothers productions. I caught up with Mr. Polito before the premiere of Coen-inspired buddy comedy The Marconi Brothers, in which he plays “the undisputed king of Long Island wedding and event videography.”
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Jon Polito Interview
March 13, 2008 – 11:07 am
On the surface, Jake Mahaffy’s Wellness seems similar to many films that have played at SXSW recently. It was made with almost no money, shot on a handheld camera with natural light, and the non-actor cast was not working from a script. While many films that fit this description never leave the territory of Gen-Y [...]
Kevin interviews the director and star for IBID
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An interview with Caroline Suh and Erika Frankel about FRONTRUNNERS.
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March 12, 2008 – 11:30 am
An interview with Margaret Brown, director of THE ORDER OF MYTHS.
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