Interviews

THE RETURN OF “ARAYA”: INTERVIEW WITH MARGOT BENACERRAF

By | October 2009

Fifty years after being honored at Cannes, the Venezuelan filmmaker’s crowning achievement finally gets a U.S. theatrical release.

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THE RETURN OF “ARAYA”: INTERVIEW WITH MARGOT BENACERRAF

In 1959, Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf was one of two winners of the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her feature...

GHETTO BLASTER: MICHAEL JAI WHITE AND SCOTT SANDERS ON “BLACK DYNAMITER

“The smoothest, baddest brother to hit the big screen! Ice cold never felt so good!” Who are these funktastic badasses at Seattle International Film...

RECOVERING FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN: INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR LON DAVIS

Who is Francis X. Bushman, and why did Lon Davis spend nearly 30 years writing a book about him? First question answered: Francis X. Bushman (1883-1966)...

‘NET LOSS: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ONDI TIMONER ON “WE LIVE IN PUBL

Has physical connection become obsolete? With “We Live In Public,” Ondi Timoner ponders the reality of our virtual age. What’s the defining image of...

IN SEARCH OF MARION DAVIES: INTERVIEW WITH NICK LANGDON

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the daring, risque films of pre-Code Hollywood. Prior to being self-suffocated by heavy handed...

SAVAGE “GRACE”: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER PAUL SOLET

I’m sharing a couch with “Grace” director Paul Solet. Sporting a checkered fedora, well-groomed beard, and white, sleeveless t-shirt, this wiry...

BATTLING THROUGH SIFF 2009’S “FLY FILMMAKING CHALLENGE”

Each year, the Seattle International Film Festival invites four local filmmakers to go head-to-head in what is called the Fly Film Challenge. The challenge...

MARK ARNOLD AND THE TTV FUN FACTORY

Total TeleVision Productions (TTV) may not be a familiar name to many people today, but back in the 1960s and 1970s it was impossible not to know their...

JAMES KENDRICK: THERE WILL BE BLOOD

If you were going to the movies in the 1980s, you were probably watching films that were rocked with wall-to-wall violence. From the various slashers who...

MANUFACTURED CONSUMPTION: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ROBERT KENNER

The opening sentiment to “Food, Inc.” asserts that the way we eat has changed more drastically in the last fifty years than in the last 10,000. This...

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