By Paul Risker. Lucy Lawless is no stranger to television. She has traversed time itself from swords and sandals (Xena: Warrior Princess, 1995-2001, filmed in her home country, New Zealand) and science-fiction (Battlestar Galactica, 2005-2009) to dramas down under in Jane Campion’s miniseries Top of the Lake (2013) and now Shelley […]
Baseball on Acid: Jeffrey Radice on No No: A Dockumentary
By John Duncan Talbird. Jeffrey Radice’s No No: A Dockumentary about the life and career of African American baseball great Dock Ellis is currently in theaters. Nominated for the Grand Jury prize at Sundance, this is his directorial debut. He was executive producer for the award-winning short documentaries Mondo Ford, The […]
Joseph Lawson, Genre Filmmaker: An Interview
September 22, 2014
By Wheeler Winston Dixon. Joseph Lawson is an American filmmaker who is an unabashed special effects fan, action movie enthusiast, and utterly pragmatic about how films get made today in a rapaciously competitive environment. He’s a commercial filmmaker, working in Hollywood, making films as entertainment. Along the way, he’s getting […]
Sensing the Rhythms of Youth: Daniel Patrick Carbone on Hide Your Smiling Faces
September 21, 2014
By Paul Risker. Arguably the icon of onscreen childhood angst is Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) in François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959). His desperate gaze out to sea is one that is seared onto the cinematic consciousness. Fast-forward more than half a decade and Hide Your Smiling Faces (2013) sparks the […]
A Thriller in Brief: on Point Mugu
By Paul Risker. Inevitably there must be a point of origin, and whilst it would be an exaggeration to term the short film Point Mugu (2013) as such, it is a film of firsts for three individuals who have expanded and explored their creative horizons. Actress Amelia Jackson-Gray couples her writing […]
Truth in Character: An Interview with Virginia Madsen
By Paul Risker. What is in a number? Well in answer to a self-posed question, something of significance, as Virginia Madsen has or will have donned by the conclusion of next year a collection of guises that reaches into triple figures. So who is Virginia Madsen? There is Virginia Madsen […]
From Page to Screen: Writer-Director Steven Knight on Locke
By Paul Risker. Steven Knight is primarily known as the screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things (2002), Amazing Grace (2006) and Eastern Promises (2007), directed by Stephen Frears, Michael Apted and David Cronenberg, repsectively. Last year saw Knight add to his early television directorial credit, helming his directorial debut and sophomore […]
At the Forefront of Horror: An Interview with Julia Wrigley
August 27, 2014
By Cleaver Patterson. Film4 – the British digital television channel, owned by Channel 4 Television Corporation – was launched in 1998. Since then it has become renowned as a champion of cutting edge film from both home and abroad. As a result, the channel became sponsors in 2006 of the […]
By the Starlight: An Interview with April Wright on Going Attractions
August 13, 2014
By Paul Risker. On Saturday the 23 August two inaugural moments separated by eight decades are scheduled to converge when Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie (2013) screens at the first annual Reel East Film Festival in Oaklyn, Camden County, New Jersey. Is it a coincidence that […]
Wertham in Context: An Interview with Robert A. Emmons Jr. on Diagram for Delinquents
By Tom Ue. Robert A. Emmons Jr. is a documentary filmmaker. His films include: Enthusiast: The 9th Art (2001), Smalltown USA (2005), Goodwill: The Flight of Emilio Carranza (2007), Wolf at the Door (2008), YARDSALE! (2008), and De Luxe: The Tale of Blue Comet (2010). Goodwill has had the privilege […]