Category Archives: Off-site interviews

This Conference is Being Recorded: 2007 Wrap-up

Over the holidays, Lance Weiler, Mark Stolaroff and I spoke about the year in review for This Conference is Being Recorded, the Workbook Project’s podcast series. You can listen to the show here.
I was fighting off a migraine that day, so apologies if my thoughts aren’t that coherent. I do recall that Lance and Mark [...]

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Frownland

In March I caught the premiere of Ronald Bronstein’s Frownland at SXSW. Soon after seeing it, I wrote:

Frownland is clearly designed as an audience endurance test, a kind of cinematic middle-finger. Though not enjoyable in any conventional sense, it’s an unusual and original film that succeeds on its own uncompromising terms. Recommended viewing for brave [...]

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David Lynch interview @ Wired.com

A good interview with David Lynch at Wired.com. Topics covered include using digital video on Inland Empire and his ideas about meditation.
Wired: Digital video seems to have made the process of filmmaking easier for budding auteurs.
Lynch: Digital video is so beautiful. It’s lightweight, modern, and it’s only getting better. It’s put film into the La [...]

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Dance Party USA

I’ve heard good things about Aaron Katz’s microbudget feature Dance Party USA, which opens in New York today. If you’re in New York, go see it. If you’re not, order the DVD like I did.
Here’s an interview conducted by David Lowery.
And here’s one from indieWire.

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Pinewood Dialogues Online

The Museum of the Moving Image in New York has posted MP3s of dialogues they’ve held over the last several years with major figures in (largely North American) film. Todd Haynes, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch and David Cronenberg are just a few of those interviewed.
Check out the dialogues here.
[Via Green Cine]

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