Interviews

RECOVERING FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN: INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR LON DAVIS

By | September 2009

A new biography celebrates a long-forgotten icon of the silent screen.

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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...

PHIL HALL’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA

Considering the years Phil Hall has spent writing movie reviews, the Bootleg Files column, and other pieces for Film Threat, as well as a previous book of...

DOUBLE “BILL”

David Carradine has opened an industrial-sized vat of whoop-ass over his long and checkered career, so it’s not surprising that a tinge of anxiety would...

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