Q/A: Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling brought me flowers when we met for this interview on a hot Sunday in July. Our earlier scheduled…
Interviews
Q&A: BAI LING
I am somewhat embarrassed to say that I did not know exactly why I was to meet the actress Bai…
Q/A: Terrence Howard
There was one good thing about Malcolm Lee’s 1999 studio film The Best Man: Terrence Howard. I wrote a review…
Q/A: Tamara E. Robinson
Rebecca Carroll: Where are we with public television? What do people—both those who are watching and not watching—need to know…
Q/A: Sharon Lockhart
Los Angeles-based artist, photographer, and conceptual filmmaker Sharon Lockhart makes films as minimal as they are pensive. There’s a predilection…
Q&A with David Russell of Big Film Shorts
David Russell is the go-to man for all things short film. In 1996, he started Big Film Shorts, a distributor…
Q/A: Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch is one of America’s most eloquent and original social critics. In the last three decades, Crouch has published…
Spik(e)ing The Indie Film Punch
I met Spike Lee for the first time in the fall of 1989 at the University of New Hampshire, where…
Deutsch/Open City Films:
Since founding Open City Films in 1994, producers Joana Vicente and Jason Kliot have earned a reputation for making unique…