Click here to listen to the interview. Lexi Levan has been the Executive Director of the Jewish Film Institute, presenter of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, since 2011, but before that she, herself, was a filmmaker. When we spoke via Zoom on July 7.2024, the first thing I asked her was how that experience… Read More »
SALTBURN — Emerald Fennell Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. Click here for the KMR review of SALTBURN. When I spoke to Emerald Fennell on October 10, 2023, about her wicked black comedy, SALTBURN, the trick was to avoid spoilers. I think we succeeded, with only a tantalizing reference to the suitably absurdist finale that features Barry Keoghan… Read More »
NEVER LOOK AWAY – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. Before I started recording my interview with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on January 14, 2019, we reminisced about the last time we had met. It was just before his film, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, had beaten Guillermo del Toro’s odd-on favorite for the Best Foreign Language Oscar™, PAN’S… Read More »
BLINDSPOTTING — Daveed Diggs & Rafael Casal
Click here to listen to the interview. Click for the full review of BLINDSPOTTING. When I spoke to BLINDSPOTTING’s co-stars/co-writers Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal on July 12, 2018, I decided to start the conversation with one of the things that struck me most about their film, which was the enormous compassion it shows for… Read More »