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Me, IFC and Coolio
My first feature for IFC News is a hard-hitting exposé of an issue that’s gone uncovered in the media for far too long. I’m talking, of course, about lame American actors travelling overseas to star in crappy foreign genre films. As my in-depth investigation uncovered, it’s a phenomenon typified by puzzled looks, bad accents and…
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Werner to the Rescue
Werner Herzog has come to save us from our summer doldrums. The German auteur’s latest, Rescue Dawn, is the best film to hit theaters during this popcorn-overloaded season, and I was fortunate enough to speak to the director for SOMA magazine – in person – about his latest work, Transformers, the state of documentary filmmaking,…
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Lynchian Meditations
One week after speaking with Laura Dern for SOMA‘s April issue, I had the great fortune to be able to interview her Blue Velvet and Inland Empire director David Lynch for the magazine’s current May issue. Speaking to me via cell phone from a Manhattan-traversing car, the soft-spoken Lynch discussed his 30-year practice of transcendental…
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The Many Reinventions of Laura Dern
After missing an opportunity to interview Guy Pearce for last month’s issue of SOMA (due to the birth of my second daughter), I was fortunate enough to get a chance to speak with Laura Dern for a feature that appears in their April issue. The article – “From Inland Empire to Year of the Dog:…
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SOMA, in Flannel
My second contribution to SOMA magazine is the cover story for February’s “Film Issue.” It’s a profile of Julianne Nicholson, current star of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and recent lead in Jeff Lipsky’s superbly acted relationship drama Flannel Pajamas. Because of how the magazine’s site is designed, the below link will simply get you…
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SOMA Dystopia
For my inaugural contribution to SOMA magazine, I’ve written a review/feature on Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, which may not have much depth as a political allegory about our current terrorism-infested world, but which gets by on the strength of its blistering, exhilarating formal brilliance. Unfortunately, as of now the piece isn’t online, so I’ll…
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Almodóvar’s Outsider Cinema
To coincide with the release of Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, I’ve contributed a critical look at the Spanish director’s idiosyncratic oeuvre – and, specifically, the means by which he subverts stereotypes and celebrates those marginalized by mainstream society – for New York Foundation for the Arts’ online publication NYFA Current. The link can be found here:…
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Short Sundancing
My second article for The Independent is featured in this month’s January/February issue. It’s an inside look at the short film programmers at the Sundance Film Festival, and – at least for a limited time – an excerpt can be read at the below link. The Short Story at Sundance: Behind the Scenes with the…
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Fearless Independent
My first contribution to The Independent is a feature on Bradley Beesley’s documentary about The Flaming Lips titled The Fearless Freaks. You can find my in-depth look at the film (which includes interviews with director Beesley and Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne) at the below link, although only AIVF members will be able to read…
