Click here to listen to the interview. 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 his friends and colleagues when his wife becomes a suicide bomber. His new film, THE INSULT, the… Read More »
THE DUNNING MAN — Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, and Ian Blume Interview
The one question I knew I wasn’t going to ask the team behind THE DUNNING MAN was the one about that Oscar™-winning film that shares a name with DUNNING MAN’s director/screenwriter, Michael Clayton. Instead, when I spoke with Clayton, writer Kevin Fortuna, editor Ian Blume by phone on March 6, 2017, I started the conversation by… Read More »
AMERICAN PASTORAL — Ewan McGregor Interview
Ewan McGregor had just spent the previous 24 hours flying in from London and then hosting a Q&A for his film, AMERICAN PASTORAL, at the Mill Valley Film Festival, but adrenalin got the better of fatigue when I spoke with him on October 10, 2016. The film charts the life of a Jewish-American golden boy… Read More »
THE HOLLARS — Margo Martindale & John Krasinski Interview
The problem I run into when writing introductions is deciding what to include and what to leave out when listing the interviewee’s previous credits. In the case of John Krasinski and Margo Martindale, there wasn’t much I wanted to leave out (the woman has won THREE Emmys after all), leading me to crack a joke… Read More »
For Steven Knight, It’s A LOCKE
Steven Knight has written some of my favorite films, and so when I learned that he was making a trip to San Francisco on April 9, 2014, to promote LOCKE, I was more than delighted. A modest man with a dry wit, he humored my penchant for reading too much into things (the name Katrina… Read More »
Lily Tomlin and Paul Weitz and GRANDMA
In which Paul Weitz and Lily Tomlin talk the continuum of comedy, reading too much into a name, and paying one’s own way. And a good time is had by all.
Hubert Sauper Explores the Irony of WE COME AS FRIENDS
I am rarely left speechless when conducting an interview, but on August 19, 2015, when WE COME AS FRIEND’s Hubert Sauper told me about how a group of Christian missionaries from Texas had convinced their Sudanese converts about the truth of the resurrection, I all but collapsed in bemused disbelief. It’s towards the end of… Read More »
The Zen of Conquering MERU
Before starting the formal interview with Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, and Chai Vasarhelyi about their stunning documentary MERU, on May 4, 2015, I felt compelled to tell them that while I have climbed stairs in my life, I have never, and never will, climb a mountain. Vasarhelyi, the co-director with her husband, Chin, laughed and… Read More »
Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt Celebrate THE END OF THE TOUR
You never know what gem of an information nugget you will unearth when conducting an interview, or, as in the case of my chat with Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt, before the formal interview began while I was checking the sound levels on my recording equipment on May 2, 2015. I had spoken to Ponsoldt… Read More »
Stephen Winter Re-discovers JASON AND SHIRLEY
Click here to listen to the interview. When Shirley Clarke made PORTRAIT OF JASON, she was doing more than exercising her creative impulse. The Oscar™-winning director had been all but shut out of Hollywood, and returned to New York to pursue a career as an indie filmmaker rather than deal with being marginalized by the… Read More »
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