Interviews

CHRISTIAN DE REZENDES: THE ODYSSEY OF ALZIRA

By | June 2000

Some filmmakers go to great lengths to find remarkable stories. Rhode Island-based documentary filmmaker Christian de Rezendes was lucky. His extraordinary story was close to home in the form of his grandmother Alzira de Jesus Soares…

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CHRISTIAN DE REZENDES: THE ODYSSEY OF ALZIRA

It often seems that many filmmakers go to extended lengths to find remarkable stories. Christian de Rezendes, however, was lucky. His extraordinary story...

WAR STORIES: THE FILM WE SHOT AT GRANDMA'S HOUSE

Prepare for another indie filmmaker war story. Here we present another chapter in our continuing series focusing on the trials and tribulations of making...

JASON ROSETTE: A LIFE ON THE STREET

On the surface, it seemed like a surefire recipe for mini-disaster: a documentary on the sidewalk book sellers of New York, shot by a first-time filmmaker...

JOHN T. RYAN: ROCKING TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER

From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, the concert documentary genre offered moviegoers an invigorating glimpse into the kinetic and often chaotic world...

DE ALMEIDA AND HIS AMAZING DOC

This is not a question of going too far out on a limb...this is a need to climb to the highest limb and cheer for as loud and long as humanly possible. ...

SKYE'S THE LIMIT

Most of us experienced rough times at some point in our childhoods. Whether it was not fitting in with our peers, or getting bullied by older kids who...

JOHN WATERS: CINEMA TERRORIST (part 2)

Cecil B. Demented makes fun of the process that Hollywood uses to make films including focus groups. Have you ever had a problem with focus groups...

ERICA JORDAN: THE QUIET PIONEER

In March 1998, the marriage of cinema and cyberspace was consummated when "Walls of Sand," a two-hour film produced in 1994, became the first contemporary...

UNINVITED GUEST: A CHRISTOPHER GUEST INTERVIEW (part 2)

The characters in your films like "Waiting for Guffman" and Best in Show are almost too real? ^ Well, they're not too real, they're just real enough. I...

AN INTERVIEW WITH RIDLEY SCOTT

Interview with Ridley Scott (Upon the release of White Squall) [ You always very thoroughly and visually explore a particular world. In a way, once you've...

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