By Tom Ue. Aaron Brookner was born in Greenwich Village, New York City. He studied film at Vassar College, and began his filmmaking career by assisting in the production of Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) and Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity (2002). In 2004, he directed the short documentary The […]
Reopening Pandora’s Box in San Francisco
By Michael T. Toole. It was quite the celebration for both Louise Brooks fans and silent cinéastes in general when the 17th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival presented a restored print of Pandora’s Box last month. G.W. Pabst’s ever engrossing and eminently stylish examination of pure sexuality and the […]
Interview with Terry Linehan, Director of Don’t Know Yet
By Leo Collis. Terry Linehan, filmmaker and lecturer at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is currently filming his first feature-length project, Don’t Know Yet. I interviewed Terry about the film, what makes the project so unique and crashing R.V.s. Leo Collis: Tell me what Don’t Know Yet is about. […]
Interview with Tim Palmer, Author of Brutal Intimacy
By Leo Collis. Brutal Intimacy is the first full-length publication from Dr. Tim Palmer. The book focuses on modern French cinema, its recent exports and the French film ecosystem. It also researches the impact of young filmmakers, women filmmakers, French film education and the variety of French film genres in […]
Interview with Ethan de Seife, Author of Tashlinesque
By Leo Collis. Following the release of his book Tashlinesque, I caught up with author Ethan de Seife to discuss writer, director and animator Frank Tashlin, the development of the book and why Tashlin has been so grossly neglected by filmmakers and scholars alike. Leo Collis: Ethan, can you tell […]
Interview with Russell Owen, Welcome to the Majority’s Director
By Leo Collis. Russell Owen has worked in film and television for almost a decade. Through this time, he has done countless jobs and worked on numerous projects with a whole range of directors. Taking all that he’s learnt over the years, Owen has ventured into the world of directing […]
Private Romeo: A Conversation with Alan Brown
By Tom Ue. Writer and director Alan Brown’s most recent feature – his fourth – Private Romeo, won a Grand Jury Prize at 2011 Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles, and was a Critic’s Pick of The New York Times, which wrote that, “Shakespeare himself would spring for a ticket […]
Interview with Sharon Badal, Tribeca Film Festival
April 13, 2012
By Gary M. Kramer. Sharon Badal is the Head Shorts Film Programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival, which unspools April 18-29, 2012. Badal started with Tribeca in 1999, she said in a recent phone interview, “Since before Day One.” She was one of the first three employees of TFF back […]
Rob Byrne and the resurrection of Abel Gance’s Napoléon
By Michael T. Toole. For the last two weekends of March in Oakland’s Paramount Theater, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) presented Abel Gance’s, thrilling, sweeping epic, Napoléon (1927). This showcase had the air of a once in your lifetime happening, and for many of us that very well […]
A Conversation with Khavn De La Cruz
By Yusef Sayed. A highly prolific filmmaker who has spearheaded the active and visible presence of Filipino artists at film festivals around the world in recent years, Khavn De La Cruz is tough to pin down. With countless films to his name, including Squatterpunk (2007), Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing […]