Interviews

DRIFTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY: INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS METZLER AND JEFF SPRINGER

By | September 2007

Filmmakers Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer, the creative minds behind the ecologically aware and culturally relevant documentary “Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea,” have learned that the right balance between fact and fun is attainable…

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DRIFTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY: INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS METZLER AND JEFF SPRINGER

Documentaries are deceptively simple to make and evaluate. They’re too long or too short, too biased or too vague; narratively repetitive or...

RED ASPHALT: INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR ALEX ORR

Filmmaker Alex Orr takes us into the future, the frighteningly plausible future, where gas prices have sky-rocketed to $40 a gallon. At prices likes this,...

HAVING YOUR “CHEESE” AND EATING IT TOO: INTERVIEW WITH JEFF GARLIN

To describe Jeff Garlin’s character on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” as an easygoing sideman to the dyspeptic leading role would be reductive. ...

THE BUNNIES TAKE THE STAGE: INTERVIEW WITH CREATOR JENNIFER SHIMAN

I don't think there's a single movie geek or animation nut on the internet that doesn't know what Angry Alien" refers to. When you hear the name of the...

TRANSGRESSION CONFESSIONS: INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD KERN

The Cinema of Transgression was a loose-knit subterranean film movement that blossomed like a demented opiate hothouse flower in post-punk New York’s...

"LLIK YOUR IDOLS": INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR ANGELIQUE BOSIO

"Llik Your Idols" by French filmmaker Angelique Bosio documents the still-influential (and still underground) Cinema of Transgression, and Film Threat had...

"LLIK YOUR IDOLS": INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR ANGELIQUE BOSIO (PART 2)

Had any particularly good or bad reactions to your film?Yes. Many good reactions did touch me. One of them being a filmmaker from New Zealand who now lives...

SLICING "BEEF": INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR PETE JACELONE

Slasher films have a tendency to look alike. After all, how many times can you see nubile young girls fall screaming under well-aimed blades? Veteran...

RIDING “A NEW WAVE”: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER JASON CARVEY

A movie-obsessed slacker and an aspiring artist stuck in a dead-end bank teller’s job conspire to pull a heist at the latter’s place of employment....

RIDING "A NEW WAVE": INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER JASON CARVEY

A movie-obsessed slacker and an aspiring artist stuck in a dead-end bank teller’s job conspire to pull a heist at the latter’s place of employment....

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