January 26, 2012

Fantasy Location Primer: Pulp Mythology

From 1905’s Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus (L’Île de Calypso: Ulysse et le géant Polyphème), and up to 2011’s Immortals and 2012’s Wrath of the Titans, Greek mythology has long proven…..

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January 2, 2012

Cinematic Japan: Sakuran

Sakuran is a stunningly colorful film by director Ninagawa Mika based on a serialized manga, a Japanese comic, of the same name. The movie depicts the life of a young…..

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December 22, 2011

Camera Q&A: L.Q. Jones on A Boy and his Dog, Westerns & more

Who: L.Q. Jones is a veteran actor and filmmaker who has, by his own estimate, appeared in 114 films and 400-500 TV episodes. Born Justus Ellis McQueen, his big screen…..

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November 19, 2011

Camera Q&A: Alrick Brown on Kinyarwanda

Who: Alrick Brown is an American filmmaker who wrote and directed 2011’s Kinyarwanda, which takes place during the 1994 Rwandan genocide — a 100-day period that claimed the lives of…..

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October 30, 2011

Camera Q&A: Larry Cohen on his films with Fred Williamson

Who: Larry Cohen is a veteran filmmaker who grew up in Bronx, New York before embarking on a long career that included several New York City-shot films. Two of those…..

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October 16, 2011

Camera Q&A: Mateo Gil on Butch Cassidy and filming in Bolivia

Who: Mateo Gil is a Spain-based filmmaker whose latest feature imagines the later years of American outlaw Butch Cassidy — that is, if he had survived his alleged death in…..

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October 6, 2011

Camera Q&A: Jen Gatien on Limelight and her NYC films

Who: Jen Gatien is a New York-based film producer who has utilized the state for several productions over the past few years. A former resident of the Chelsea Hotel on…..

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September 20, 2011

Camera Q&A: Katarzyna Roslaniec on Warsaw's Mall Girls

Who: Katarzyna Roslaniec is a Poland-based filmmaker who wrote and directed 2009’s Galerianki (Mall Girls) after six months of research spent with young women in Warsaw who troll local shopping…..

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August 26, 2011

Joann Sfar on Serge Gainsbourg's Paris

Who: Joann Sfar is a Paris-based cartoonist and filmmaker who wrote and directed 2010’s [Serge] Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, based on his own graphic novel about the noted French musician……

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August 15, 2011

Camera Q&A: Penelope Spheeris on L.A. music and youth culture

Who: Penelope Spheeris is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose career as a documentarian goes back to the 1970’s, when she worked as a film editor and cinematographer, forming LA’s first…..