“HARVEST” – AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER MARC MEYERS

Marc Meyers arrived at filmmaking by way of playwriting. Meyers’ second feature, “Harvest,” follows ordinary people going about the business of living and dying…



Posted on July 21, 2011 by

TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH “CROPSEY” FILMMAKER JOSH ZEMAN

Zeman and Brancaccio are like a 2-person “Scooby-Doo” team, so of course I jumped at the opportunity to interview co-director Josh Zeman about their film “Cropsey”…



Posted on June 27, 2011 by

THROUGH A GLASS BRIGHTLY: VIDEO ARTS LEGEND DARA BIRNBAUM

Film Threat caught up with Birnbaum at her New York studio to discuss her work and her views of contemporary video arts and experimental filmmaking…



Posted on June 23, 2011 by

DARK HORSE: INTERVIEW WITH CINDY MEEHL AND BUCK BRANNAMAN

Cindy Meehl and Buck Brannaman talk about on “Buck,” an extraordinary documentary and one of the best films at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival…



Posted on June 11, 2011 by

JAY MILES LEADS THE CONQUEST OF YOUTUBE

So you want your YouTube video to look good and stand out? Jay Miles offers how-to YouTube-friendly advice for filmmakers…



Posted on June 2, 2011 by

SPINDRIFT: CLASSIC SOUNDTRACKS VOL. 1

Living up to everything that the concept of neo-psychedelica promises, Spindrift composes fictional soundtracks in search of imaginary films. Think Peckinpah. Think Morricone. Add a dash of Corman and you get Spindrift…



Posted on May 30, 2011 by

TO HELLMAN AND BACK ON THE “ROAD TO NOWHERE”

Monte Hellman hardly merits an introduction. My words cannot do him justice. No aspiring director should be allowed to pick up a movie camera without seeing “Two-Lane Blacktop”…



Posted on May 16, 2011 by

“SCRAPPER”: A CHAT WITH FILMMAKER STEPHAN WASSMANN

I found Wassmann to be an interesting cat. Here was a guy fluent in Noam Chomsky who also could slam Budweisers with the toughest hombres in the military. He had the two qualities I appreciate in my associates: guts and brains…



Posted on May 9, 2011 by

AND NOW WITHOUT “CEREMONY”: AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER MAX WINKLER

“Ceremony” may be Max Winkler’s debut into feature filmmaking, but as this highly provocative narrative indicates, Winkler is no stranger to the cryptic and unexpected…



Posted on April 27, 2011 by

BASTARD SON OF A PRODIGAL SON: INTERVIEW ON “THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD”

The story behind Romero’s “Dead” series, as grand as it is, has become overwritten. Authors Christian Sellers and Gary Smart consider an unsung offshoot, the “Return of the Living Dead” series…



Posted on March 30, 2011 by

GORE-GEOUS: INTERVIEW WITH “I SAW THE DEVIL” DIRECTOR KIM JEE-WOON

With translator in tow to cut through the language barrier, Kim Jee-woon promotes his supremely scary film before its stateside release in March…



Posted on March 4, 2011 by

THE SUNDANCE KID IS BACK: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ARI GOLD

Ari’s comedy, “Adventures of Power,” which premiered at Sundance during the “year of the bankruptcies” and is finally out on DVD/VOD, is about air-drumming and the American Dream. Coincidentally, this article is about the movie and the American Dream…



Posted on February 17, 2011 by

BRINGING THE DEAD TO LIFE: AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKERS JIM TOWNS AND MIKE MCKOWN

Jim Towns and Mike McKown are an independent dream team with a huge vision. Their films, “Prometheus Triumphant: A Fugue in the Key of Flesh,” and “Stiff,” are
bold, scary, intelligent, and highly provocative…



Posted on January 20, 2011 by

“THE ENDLESS SUMMER”: AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER BRUCE BROWN

When it comes to the greatest sports films of all time, it’s a family business at the Brown household. Brown as in Bruce Brown, that is…



Posted on January 10, 2011 by

“I’M JUST TRYING TO BREAK SOME HEARTS”: AN INTERVIEW WITH FLORIN SERBAN

Filmmaker Florin Serban talks about Romanian cinema and his debut feature, “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle,” a youth drama dealing with the effects of mass-emigration and its, often traumatic, impact on Romanian families…



Posted on January 5, 2011 by
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