Interviews

REGGIE BANISTER: HOT AS LOVE

By | March 2003

“Phantasm”’s Reggie Bannister vs. the California wildfires and his worst fears. “Natural disasters, catastrophic things. Things that are beyond your control. That’s scary…”

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REGGIE BANISTER: HOT AS LOVE

In a genre where charismatic villains rule the day, heroes are hard to come by. And, by “hero,” I don’t mean the obligatory “final girl” who...

THOM FITZGERALD & SARAH POLLEY: “SPECIAL EVENT”

What makes a Sundance audience cry? Try Thom Fitzgerald’s AIDS drama The Event Not a dry eye in the house. The Event deals with the investigation of a...

DAVID CRONENBERG: HIS “SPIDER” HAS MORE BITE THAN BARK

The title sequence for Spider is really unique. It starts out with these incredible textures. In fact, it seems all your films have these remarkable title...

JOHN DULLAGHAN: CONJURING THE GENIUS IN A BOTTLE

What sort of challenges did you face in doing the documentary? ^ Well, no money. I quit my job soon after beginning this project. So I would go and...

TOBY RADLOFF: A REAL AMERICAN NERD

Seems like everyone’s confessing to being a nerd or a geek nowadays. It just seems like a cool thing to do. No one is really ashamed anymore that their...

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

Filmmaker Kurt Voss has established a solid reputation as an auteur with an eye for the gritty, sardonic side of the rock'n'roll life - most notably with...

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

When it came to working with musicians who are essentially non-actors, how did it affect your approach to giving them direction? ^ It was a challenge to...

“FINAL DESTINATION 2”: NO CRASH LANDING

People who have a fear of flying are seldom comforted by the statistic that death is six times more likely to happen in a car than in a plane. It was with...

ROBERT REDFORD: THE SUNDANCE KID

Regarding the younger audience, in the 1980s, Francis Coppola tried to appeal to them with what he called “art films for kids,” making “The...

JASI COTTON LANIER: MOST DANGEROUS ACTRESS

Have you always wanted to do stunts or are you interested in other areas of film production as well? Stunts were a natural progression for me. After my...

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