Interviews

REFLECTIONS IN THE FUNHOUSE MIRROR: A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT MORGAN

By | January 2012

2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILMMAKER! I’ve made it no secret that I think Robert Morgan is one of the best independent filmmakers working today. This isn’t empty flattery either. His entire oeuvre, in my opinion, is never less than excellent, or at the very least I feel that you’ll never feel cheated watching one of his films…

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REFLECTIONS IN THE FUNHOUSE MIRROR: A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT MORGAN

I’ve made it no secret that I think Robert Morgan is one of the best independent filmmakers working today. This isn’t empty flattery either. His entire...

IN SEARCH OF THOMAS INCE: INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN TAVES

During the 1910s and early 1920s, film producer Thomas Ince was among the most prominent figures in the motion picture industry. His creation of Inceville...

CURATOR TO CURATOR: JACK STEVENSON'S "BENEATH CONTEMPT…"

I met writer-curator Jack Stevenson more than ten years ago in San Francisco. He curated a screening at Other Cinema and my friend Stephen Parr threw an...

HEALING THE FATHER WOUND: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER JUSTIN HUNT

Hungry mice are enticed by cheese. Similarly, headbangers are lured by heavy metal. I’m an unashamed, life-long Metal Geek. As such, the following...

FROM THE SMALL TOWN GAY BAR TO THE CONTINENTAL BATHS: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER M

Malcolm Ingram, the gay, Canadian documentarian, and former Film Threat writer, is a self-proclaimed blow-hard, and most people who know him would agree....

WHAT IS UNDERGROUND FILM? A DIALOGUE WITH LAWRENCE AND ROBERTS

Recently, Slamdance asked Burke Roberts and myself [Noel Lawrence] to recommend underground films for the Anarchy Shorts and Special Screening sections of...

CURATOR TO CURATOR: STEPHEN PARR'S "ODDBALL FILMS"

Stephen Parr’s Oddball Film Archives is just that. Located in the Mission District of San Francisco, his loft contains over 50,000 films. His 16mm film...

HAPPY ACCIDENTS: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER EVAN GLODELL ON "BELLFLOWER"

To be fair, the unlikely success could do it to anybody. Actor-writer-director Evan Glodell made “Bellflower” over a number of years, on his own time...

"GENERAL ORDERS NO. 9": AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ROBERT PERSONS

Eleven years in the making, first-time filmmaker Bob Persons has created a ghostly masterpiece with his “General Orders No. 9.” The film is a tone poem...

CURATOR TO CURATOR: FRÉDÉRIC TEMPS ON “L’ÉTRANGE FESTIVAL”

As a curator for Other Cinema Digital and elsewhere, I made a point of screening the most obscure and bizarre films I could lay my hands on. It takes a...

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