Interviews

JUDITH WESTON: IT’S ALL PART OF THE ACT

By | August 2004

The Culver City-based acting and directing teacher has a method which she’s expounded on in fascinating detail in two shockingly readable books and in classes which she’s taught all around the world…

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JUDITH WESTON: IT’S ALL PART OF THE ACT

When I was in film school, it was kind of fashionable among some of us, including me, to downplay the importance of acting in films. After all, there were...

MAX ALLAN COLLINS: MOMMY’S BOY

Can you tell me a little bit about "Mommy"? ^ "Mommy" is a pretty successful picture, an unofficial sequel to "The Bad Seed". It was very popular, and then...

MAX ALLAN COLLINS: MOMMY’S BOY

Who is Max Allan Collins? A modern renaissance man. A jack –of-all-trades. Well, at least in the realm of the campy, horror, comic, and actually awesome...

LLOYD KAUFMAN: AMERICAN AUTEUR

There are so many filmmakers who credit you as their inspiration or their beginnings when you ask them, like Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) for instance, or Chris...

BIG FISH: CHRIS KENTIS & LAURA LAU ON “OPEN WATER”

“Jaws” is and always will be the greatest horror film of all time. Don’t get me wrong. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead,...

BIG FISH: CHRIS KENTIS & LAURA LAU ON “OPEN WATER”

Was Open Water you first film? ^ LL: No, this was our second film. We had a film that was released in 1997 called “Grind,” which starred Billy Crudup...

JASON SANTO AND MINDSCAPE PICTURES

Like most filmmakers, Santo has been making movies since grade school, starting with the tried-and-true battleground of Super-8, before moving on to bigger...

THE GRUDGE OF TAKASHI SHIMIZU

I can’t speak English (blushing) That’s okay! If you feel comfortable, go ahead, but if you want to just listen and then have her answer, that’s...

GLEN BAISLEY: FEARING THE DARK OF THE TENEMENT IN FAIRVIEW FALLS

The unfortunate town of Fairview Falls lies somewhere in upstate New York, and bad things happen there. As documented in “The Tenement”, it was the...

AMAZING GRACE

Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is an impoverished, pregnant 17-year-old stagnating in a rural Colombian village. Shacked up at home where three...

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