A Conversation with Les Blank
In his new film All In This Tea, director Les Blank operates at the far extremes of technology, using digital…
In his new film All In This Tea, director Les Blank operates at the far extremes of technology, using digital…
Ohio-based filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s 3-hour and 45-minute documentary A Lion in the House follows five families with…
What happened at AIVF over the last 30 years? Coming up with a coherent and entertaining way to answer that…
I first became aware of AIVF when Martha Gever was editor of The Independent. I marveled at this national organization…
The original idea was to drive filmmaker Ben Blaine into the countryside and abandon him, but since Ben can’t drive…
I thought that making Monster’s Ball was rough. I vowed upon wrapping that film that I would never make another….
In 1973, a young, cinema-loving bohemian couple fled the high rents of Manhattan for the more affordable suburbs of Huntington,…
Writer, producer, and film executive James Schamus has had about as brilliant a career in independent film as they come,…
In 1998, I joined the production team of Julie Gustafson’s Desire, a documentary about teenage girls from three diverse New…