Craigslist Joe Movie Review
Title: Craigslist Joe Director: Joseph Garner A generally agreeable but perhaps hopelessly meandering documentary snapshot of one young guy’s attempt to hit the road for 31 days and live off…
Walk Away Renee Movie Review
Title: Walk Away Renee Director: Jonathan Caouette In 2004 Jonathan Caouette made a film, “Tarnation,” about his tumultuous upbringing with his maternal grandparents and fractured, on-and-off-again relationship with his disturbed…
Exclusive: Co-Director Vincent Paronnaud Talks Chicken With Plums
Some directors come to filmmaking with a laser-like focus and sense of predetermination. Others, like French-born Vincent Paronnaud, drift in from other mediums, almost like visiting maestro professors. A key…
Nitro Circus The Movie 3D Movie Review
Title: Nitro Circus The Movie 3D Directors: Gregg Godfrey and Jeremy Rawle Years ago, our minds warped by the spectacle of Dennis Rodman, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mickey Rourke appearing…
Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Movie Review
Title: Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Director: Fredrik Gertten In 2009, Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten’s “Bananas!*” was just one of more than a dozen nonfiction competition entries in the Los…
Exclusive: Director Lee Toland Krieger Talks Celeste and Jesse Forever, More
A 2005 graduate of USC’s School of Cinema and Television, Lee Toland Krieger made his feature film debut in 2008 with “The Vicious Kind,” starring Adam Scott, from his own…
Exclusive: Mathieu Demy Talks Americano, Salma Hayek and Impulsive Tattoos
As the son of legendary French filmmakers Jacques Demy and Agnes Varda, it was almost a mortal lock that Mathieu Demy, after many years as an actor, would end up…
Exclusive: Will McCormack Talks Celeste and Jesse Forever, Frenemy of the State
Plenty of performers take an interest in writing in order to help better craft roles in which they can then star. An excellent example is Rashida Jones, whose screenwriting debut,…
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Movie Review
Title: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Director: Alison Klayman A compelling documentary that explodes proper and stuffy notions of what a foreign intellectual dissident looks and sounds like, “Ai Weiwei: Never…