Interviews

INDIE FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT: ANTERO ALLI

By | March 2000

Unless you are a rabid devotee of independent cinema, there is a good chance that you are unfamiliar with Antero Alli. His feature “The Drivetime” offers a sci-fi tale of a time-traveling librarian seeking to retrieve lost video footage…

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INDIE FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT: ANTERO ALLI

Unless you are a rabid devotee of independent cinema, there is a good chance that you are unfamiliar with Antero Alli. The Finnish-born, Berkeley-based...

THE LIGHT IN THE PICTURE: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE FIGGIS

Mike Figgis is a soft-spoken but passionate man who, with his composer's mane of untamed curly hair and wire-rimmed spectacles looks as if he might be an...

DAVID LYNCH INTERVIEW: IS DAVID JUST A LITTLE WEIRD?

David Lynch has a painting hanging in his office. It's very lovely, and very David Lynch. Just how David Lynch is breathtaking. For you see, upon...

SHROUDED LIVES AND HABITATS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL AND AIDAN QUINN

I met Paul & Aidan Quinn for an interview in their hotel suite. Paul, very casually dressed, sat on a sofa, while Aidan smoked a fat cigar as he reclined...

HYPE SURVIVOR: DANIEL MYRICK AND "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT"

As I hit redial, I glance at the clock and see that it's 10:32 a.m. Two minutes past the time for our scheduled telephone interview and the number I've...

Q & A WITH DIRECTOR WERNER HERZOG

[ On Juliane Koepke: ] ^ "It is not only a film of her, it's a film on something deeper, and part of it is of course her relationship to nature, and how...

DIY FILMMAKERS: AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ AND "LOVE=ME3"

[ WHAT'S YOUR BIO? ] ^ I was born in Havana and moved to the US in '83. Love=Me3 is my feature debut. Prior, I directed several short films,...

AXE HAPPY: GUY RITCHIE AND "LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS"

I met Guy Ritchie for an interview in a small conference room of the Monaco Hotel in San Francisco. He looks like the kind of regular chap you'd expect to...

JOY IN THE STRUGGLE: A LOOK AT JOHN MILIUS

At the week-long Cinequest '99 in San Jose (February 25-March 3), nearly 60 films screened. In addition, there were appearances by such notables as Rod...

SIMULATING HISTORY: VIDEO ARTIST LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON

I met up with the director of "Conceiving Ada," Lynn Hershman Leeson, at San Francisco's CafE Puccini in North Beach. We discussed her new work, the...

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