Don't Hate the Playa, Hate the GameAn interview with director Jessica Yu: In PING PONG PLAYA, Christopher "C-dub" Wang is a suburban guy who sports an urban swagger, waxes political on all things Asian American, and clings to pipe dreams of a career as a pro basketball player. Blaming genetics for his failure to make ... read more Posted on 08/22/2008 by FCFeatures Being McDowell Means Never Having to Say You're SorryAn interview with actor Malcolm McDowell: NEVER APOLOGIZE, the documentary of Malcolm McDowell’s celebration of Lindsay Anderson, their times and their colleagues, is a unique hybrid of film, theater and literature. It has been selected for presentation in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Classics section, where it will ... read more Posted on 08/22/2008 by FCFeatures From Sundance to the Cinema: Trouble the WaterAn interview with directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal: How is it that Hurricane Katrina managed to revolutionize American attitudes about the environment, but somehow the very people most devastated by the storm have become refugees in their own country, and their experiences have been all but forgotten? In ... read more Posted on 08/15/2008 by FCFeatures New InterviewsFLOW: For the Love of Water: An interview with director Irina Salina: Under the cover of darkness, African plumbers secretly reconnect shantytown water pipes to ensure a community’s survival. A California scientist exposes toxic public water supplies. A “water guru” promotes community-based initiatives to provide water throughout India. The ... read more Posted on 08/15/2008 by FCFeatures From Sundance to the Cinema 3: Momma's ManMomma's Man: An interview with director Azazel Jacobs and actor Matt Boren: MOMMA'S MAN begins with Mikey returning to his parents' place in New York after deciding not to get on the plane to go home to his wife and small child in California. Unsure of his own motivations, ... read more Posted on 08/15/2008 by FCFeatures Twilight of the IdolsChabrol’s “A Girl Cut in Two” and Rohmer’s “The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" It is a real treat to be a filmgoer in New York City this week, when new films by two elder statesmen of the French New Wave (not the usual suspects, either) will have their ... read more Posted on 08/15/2008 by FCFeatures CJ7CJ7: An interview with director Stephen Chow From Stephen Chow, the director and star of Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, comes CJ7, a new comedy featuring Chow's trademark slapstick antics. Ti (Stephen Chow) is a poor ... read more Posted on 08/14/2008 by FCFeatures Quick TakesBy Damon Smith If you don’t know who Patti Smith is (New York poet, punk-rock legend, friend to Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, Bob Dylan, and countless other cool cats), and you’ve never heard her raucous, iconic 1975 album “Horses,” then don’t go looking to Steven ... read more Posted on 08/08/2008 by FCFeatures Tony, Tony, TonyThe Deal: An interview with director Stephen Frears: THE DEAL is director Stephen Frears and writer Peter Morgan’s prequel to “The Queen”. The film traces the devolution in the relationship between the old-fashioned and hard-nosed Gordon Brown (David Morrissey) and the more polished and media-friendly Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) ... read more Posted on 08/08/2008 by FCFeatures Better late then neverElegy: An interview with director Isabel Coixet: Driven by Isabel Coixet’s visually assured and deeply observant direction, ELEGY charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. As their intimate connection transforms them—more than either could imagine—a charged ... read more Posted on 08/08/2008 by FCFeatures |
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