New InterviewsStop-Loss: An interview with director Kimberly Peirce: STOP-LOSS director Kimberly Peirce’s first film since the Academy Award-winning Boys Don’t Cry, is a topical and emotionally penetrating drama examining a government policy that has affected the lives of more than 80,000 of America’s brave men and women in uniform. The ... read more Posted on 07/18/2008 by FCFeatures Featured ArticlesHerzog and the Apocalypse: A Meditation Inspired by Encounters at the End of the World By Damon Smith Movies have been dreaming about the end of the world at least since the 1950s, when nuclear-age anxieties about world destruction combusted on-screen, mostly in genre pictures featuring mad scientists, ... read more Posted on 07/18/2008 by FCFeatures About a "Boy"About a "Boy": A Review of John Crowley's Post-Prison Coming-of-Age Tale, Boy A By Damon Smith “The past is not the future,” opines Peter Mullan’s Terry in the buzzed-about British film “Boy A.” But the past is exactly what’s got hold of Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield), the sensitive young ... read more Posted on 07/18/2008 by FCFeatures BagheadAn interview with directors Mark and Jay Duplass: Mark and Jay spent almost 2 years on the festival circuit promoting The Puffy Chair. During this time, they were confronted over and over again with one consistent element… desperate actors. Those poor, slightly pathetic characters always waiting outside in the ... read more Posted on 07/18/2008 by FCFeatures American TeenAn interview with director Nanette Burstein: AMERICAN TEEN intimately follows the lives of four teenagers in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. Using cinema vérité footage, interviews, and animation, it presents a candid portrait of being 17 and all that goes with it. ... read more Posted on 07/18/2008 by FCFeatures The Order of MythsAn interview with director Margaret Brown: Mobile, Alabama is home to America’s oldest Mardi Gras celebration. But the elaborate parades and vibrant pageantry have always been segregated along racial lines. With THE ORDER OF MYTHS, Mobile native Margaret Brown escorts us through the distinctions and similarities of the parallel ... read more Posted on 07/18/2008 by FCFeatures The Little Engine That Could...Muder You.The Little Engine That Could...Muder You By Kirk Faulkner Trains have always been a good place to kill someone. Not so much if you are the murderer (or murderee, for that matter) but if you are making a film about a murder, put the whole thing on a train and ... read more Posted on 07/18/2008 by FCFeatures TranssiberianTranssiberian: An interview with director Brad Anderson: In TRANSSIBERIAN, an American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), decide to take the long way home from their recent sojourn in Asia on the legendary Trans-siberian Express train from Beijing to Moscow. On their way, they meet another couple ... read more Posted on 07/11/2008 by FCFeatures When Did You Last See Your Father?When Did You Last See Your Father?: An interview with actor Colin Firth: WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? is an unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur’s terminal illness and imminent death. Blake’s memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting ... read more Posted on 07/07/2008 by FCFeatures Full Battle RattleFull Battle Rattle: An interview with directors Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss: In California's Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a "virtual Iraq" - a billion dollar urban warfare simulation - and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role-players. FULL BATTLE RATTLE follows an Army Battalion through the ... read more Posted on 07/06/2008 by FCFeatures |
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