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…
In 1993, The Independent ran a story about The War Room, directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker. The film…
Larry Clark’s films are shocking. There’s Kids, about drug-using, AIDS-carrying, sexually active Manhattan teenagers; Bully, the true story of a…
Writer, producer, and film executive James Schamus has had about as brilliant a career in independent film as they come,…
For most people in America, “Sesame Street” warrants no introduction. The long-running PBS program and landmark, nonprofit children’s educational organization,…
Five years ago, when Deepa Mehta was about to start making her film Water in the holy city of Varanasi,…
Rosario Dawson was sleeping when I arrived on the set of Descent at Brooklyn’s Galapagos bar/gallery on a slushy morning…
If you’ve seen a John Sayles movie, you know who David Strathairn is. Sadly, if you’ve not seen a John…
Earlier this year, I got a call from a friend of a friend—a former executive producer of a children’s television…