This blog is curated according to the principle “non multa sed multum”. In other words, I will refrain from drowning your inbox with very frequent blog posts, detailing all the movies I see, all the tech events I attend, all the startups I discover. I’m focusing instead on drawing your attention to what I consider is the most exquisite.
Below you can find links to some of the articles I wrote and film interviews I took since 2012. For the latest articles, please scroll down to the “Recent Posts” bar on the right hand side below.
Interviews With Some Exciting Filmmakers Working in VR – Dazed & Confused – CANNES 2016
Meet the Filmmakers Redefining the Romanian New Wave – Little White Lies – CANNES 2016
Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey on MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES! – SUNDANCE 2016
ALICE WINOCOUR on Disorder and Shooting Trauma – Cannes 2015 Interview
AGNES VARDA Reflects on Jane B. by Agnès V. and Kung-Fu Master! Ahead of the US Release of Digitally Restored Prints – New York, October 2015
ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI on Writing and Casting Chevalier: No Macho Males Please!– LOCARNO 2015
LASZLO NEMES on SON OF SAUL & Filming Auschwitz in Shallow Focus: Could It Have Happened Somewhere Else Also?– CANNES 2015
JOSE LUIS GUERIN about his Spellbinding Academy of Muses and his Refusal to Make a “cinéma à thèse” – LOCARNO 2015
Filmmaker RADU JUDE & Producer ADA SOLOMON about AFERIM! and the Crazed World of Film Production in Romania – BERLINALE 2015
ALEX ROSS PERRY on the Art and Fun of Screenwriting & his Gripping QUEEN OF EARTH – BERLINALE 2015
ONDI TIMONER on RUSSELL BRAND and the Tricky Business of Documenting Celebrity – SXSW 2015
GUILLAUME NICLOUX on Valley of Love and Why Actors Don’t Interest Him…-CANNES 2015
CORNELIU PORUMBOIU About his Latest TREASURE, Winner of Un Certain Talent at CANNES 2015
FRANCES McDORMAND Doesn’t Need “Help” with Making a Film. And Neither Do You – Women in Motion/CANNES 2015 REPORT
NANCY BUIRSKI – By SIDNEY LUMET – CANNES 2015
GRIMUR HAKONARSON about his Un Certain Regard winning feature, a Riveting Tale of Men and RAMS – CANNES 2015
WILLIAM CUSICK on his Wonderfully Immersive Pop Meets the Void – LOWER EAST SIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2015 New York
BENJAMIN CROTTY on Turning Cheesy Daytime TV Dialogue Into Highbrow Art in Fort Buchanan – New Directors New Films 2015
AMY KOHN – A Courtship – TRIBECA 2015
PAZ FABREGA on Viaje & Filmmaking in Costa Rica – TRIBECA 2015
NADAV LAPID – Art Won’t Save the World in Israeli Auteur’s Daring Second Feature The Kindergarten Teacher – !f Istanbul 2015
SHIRA GEFFEN on the Making of Boreg – !f Istanbul 2015
All About FASSBINDER from Danish Filmmaker & Film Critic CHRISTIAN BRAAD THOMSEN: Fassbinder – To Love Without Demands – !f Istanbul 2015
CHAD GRACIA & The Russian Woodpecker – More Paranoid, More Fascinating than a Bond Thriller – SUNDANCE 2015
PATRICIO GUZMAN Talks About the Memory of Water & Chile’s Tragic Past in The Pearl Button –BERLINALE 2015
STINA WERENFELS – Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents – BERLINALE 2015
CARLOS MACHADO QUINTELA and His Project of the Century Win the Hivos Tiger Award at ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL 2015 – Havana, December 2015
EUGENE JARECKI About His Doc Retrospective at HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL 2014
EUGENE GREEN on His Sublime Masterpiece LA SAPIENZA – TIFF 2014
THE YES MEN Are Revolting Again – TIFF 2014
KATE CHEVIGNY & ROSS KAUFFMAN on the E-Team & Documenting the Middle East
HAL HARTLEY on Story, Style and His Latest Movie, Ned Rifle – TIFF 2014
Actor LIAM AIKEN from Henry the Fool to Ned Rifle– TIFF 2014
MATTHEW PLACEK on his Moving Portrait of Marina Abramovic – TIFF 2014
ALBERT SERRA and the Paranoia of Cliché – NDNF 2014
JULIETTE LEWIS on KELLY & CAL – SXSW 2014
Art et amour du cinéma – L’inoubliable ALAIN RESNAIS vu par SANDRINE KIBERLAIN
RICHARD LINKLATER Takes Silver Bear at BERLINALE 2014. Here’s a Portrait of the “Best Director”
MICHELLE YEOH on Film, Food and Final Recipe – BERLINALE 2014
SOPHIE HYDE on 52 Tuesdays – BERLINALE 2014
GUILLAUME NICLOUX & MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Banter About the Kidnapping of the Later – BERLINALE 2014
HIPPOLYTE GIRARDOT on Resnais & Aimer, Boire et Chanter – BERLINALE 2014
SANDRINE KIBERLAIN on Resnais & Aimer, Boire et Chanter (Life of Riley) – BERLINALE 2014
DAVID WENHAM & HUGO WEAVING on Australian Anthology Film The Turning – BERLINALE 2014
DAYNA GOLDFINE & DAN GELLER on The Gallapagos Affair – BERLINALE 2014
2013
Interview with THOMAS VINTERBERG About His Oscar-Nominated Film THE HUNT
Should Truth Always Prevail? Acclaimed Documentarian ALEX GIBNEY About THE ARMSTRONG LIE
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Got Burnt but Enjoyed It – CATHERINE BREILLAT About ABUSE OF WEAKNESS
AT BERKELEY with Legendary Documentarian FREDERICK WISEMAN
Director ANTHONY CHEN on ILO ILO, Honest Filmmaking and Winning the First Camera d’Or for Singapore
The Art of Change – THE RIAHI BROTHERS invite us to EVERYDAY REBELLION
CPH:DOX – A Darling of A Film Festival + Interview with Festival Producer MADS MIKKELSEN
“I cast my actors for their imagination” – Director JAMES PONSOLDT About THE SPECTACULAR NOW
LOVE, MARILYN – Interview with Director LIZ GARBUS
GLORIA is Glorious In SEBASTIAN LELIO’s New Film
2012
Director CRAIG ZOBEL On the Controversy Created by His Second Film, COMPLIANCE
A Love Story Like No Other From Kiwi Filmmaker FLORIAN HABICHT
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