Salvador Dalí Has Left the Building
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Un Chien andalou. 1928. France. 35mm print, black and white, silent, approx. 16 min. Gift of Luis Buñuel Between 1964 and 1966 Andy Warhol commenced an ambitious project in which he would photograph, using 16mm motion picture film, his Factory superstars, art world luminaries, underground celebrities, fashionistas, rock and roll gods, bold-faced Hollywood...
Parker Posey Interview For Index Magazine (1996)
WITH CHRISTINA KELLY PHOTOGRAPHED BY WOLFGANG TILLMANS Soap-star-come-indie-character-actress Parker Posey has quite the deadpan, quirky presence. Parker, 27, is best known for her starring role in Party Girl, a movie in which she plays a student of the night who finds true fulfillment as a librarian. But the Laurel, Mississippi misfit has had many a...
Video: Interview with Cory McAbee, Part 1
Cory McAbee has been gracing audiences with his own brand of surreal, imaginative, musical cinema for almost two decades. He stunned both audiences and critics in 2001 with his first feature length film, THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT, which soon generated a cult following. This year he has been touring the festival circuit with STINGRAY SAM, a sci-fi western...
Jim Henson Interview (1982)
Interview on 9/21/82 by Judy Harris Just before THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) was due to open, Fred Clarke, publisher of CINEFANTASTIQUE, called to ask if I would like to write an article about the career of Jim Henson. Would I! I had been a fan of the Muppets since I first saw them making guest...
Filmmaker Chris Marker Interview (2007)
A rare interview with one of cinema’s most secretive filmmakers. By Samuel Douhaire and Annick Rivoire By Samuel Douhaire and Annick Rivoire http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/5-6-2003/markerint.htm Originally published in Libération, March 5, 2003. With thanks to Antoine de Baecque. “What interests me is history, and politics only interests me to the degree that it is the mark history...
Lou Taylor Pucci Interview “Thumbsucker” (2005)
Lou Taylor Pucci had only recently turned twenty when he sat down for our interview, his first on the Thumbsucker personal appearance tour. Regardless, his credits include an extensive Broadway run in The Sound of Music, a film debut opposite Fairuza Balk in Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, and the role of John Voss...
Anjelica Huston on “The Life Aquatic” (2004)
By Thomas Chau in New York City Anjelica Huston works with Wes Anderson for the second time in “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.” Anjelica is best known to fantasy entertainment audiences for her dead-on portrayal of Morticia Addams in both “The Addams Family” and “Addams Family Values.” She has also appeared in “The Witches,”...
“Vicky McClure on Playing Female Roles” – Another Magazine (2011)
Vicky McClure as Lol in This Is England ’86 Photograph: Channel 4/Dean Rogers Nottingham-born actress Vicky McClure is best known for her work in the films directed by Shane Meadows. In A Room for Romeo Brass (1999) McClure played the title character’s sister Ladine and more recently in This Is England (2006) and the follow-up...
Alfred Hitchcock Interview (1967)
Alfred Hitchock was interviewed at the National Film Theatre in 1967 by Bryan Forbes. In this interview he discusses the medium of film, theatre and television, violence, and biting the heads off rats. Black and white or colour Actors and stars Locations Music and comedy Theatre and television Influences Rats Interview © BFI 2002 Black...
Luchino Visconti Interview (1971)
by Guy Flatley Mr. Visconti, is it true that you threw a tantrum at the Cannes Festival because ‘Death in Venice’ did not win first prize, that you threatened never to return to Cannes, and that the only way the jury managed to calm you down was by coming up with a brand new prize...
Madonna Interview (1983)
Island (October 1983) Her father named her. But that was her mother’s name as well. Madonna. She’s top of the charts now with her hit songs: Holiday, Burning Up, Everybody, Physical Attraction. Pop tunes with a disco/soul feel and many are sruprised to learn she’s not black but a greeneyed white blond fireplug with a...
Catherine Deneuve Interview (2005)
By Geoff Andrew Icon not only of French cinema but – as the most recent model for national emblem Marianne – France itself, Catherine Deneuve talks to Geoff Andrew about working with several generations of great European directors, from Luis Buñuel and François Truffaut to Lars von Trier and François Ozon; the problems of...
Audrey Tautou: A Great French enigma (2011)
Actress Audrey Tatou doesn’t like fame and has never worked in Hollywood. In face, she’d rather go sailing, she tells Kaleem Aftab. Monday, 8 August 2011 Audrey Tautou would like to cast herself as the reluctant superstar. After the phenomenal success of Amelie a decade ago, the world was her oyster. Hollywood scripts were landing...
Cassel Breaks the Rules with Controversial ‘Irreversible’ (2003)
by Paul Fischer Vincent Cassel/Irreversible Interview. Alongside frequent collaborator Mathieu Kassovitz, Vincent Cassel emerged in the mid-1990s as one of France’s most arresting and exciting new actors. He has worked in films ranging from grim urban dramas to light romantic comedies. The son of celebrated actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, who made a career out of playing...
Gay producer Theodore James (2011)
by Sawyer J. Lahr (Film Monthly) Sawyer J Lahr interviewed openly gay documentary producer of the HBO Documentary Superheroes. Theodore James (I Owe USA, Wordplay, Square Roots: The Story of Sponge Bob) answered some tough questions about being an openly gay documentary producer who makes movies for everybody. Why make “I Owe USA, Wordplay, and...
Dennis HOPPER
Dennis Hopper By PETER M. BRANT, TONY SHAFRAZI Interview Magazine (Part I & II) Part I It makes perfect sense that Dennis Hopper was related to Daniel Boone. Like the notorious frontiersman, Hopper ascended into the mythic golden landscape of American culture. He might have been one of the most authentic representations of combustible cool...
Dominic Cooper: The Devil Inside (2011)
Dominic Cooper is riding high with Captain America and The Devil’s Double, but the Londoner still wouldn’t turn down a good zombie movie By Carole Cadwallad (The Observer), Sunday 7 August 2011 Double trouble: Dominic Cooper as Uday Hussein in The Devil’s Double. It’s a bit of an adjustment meeting Dominic Cooper on the rooftop of...
Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
The legendary interview from 1963 PB: You never watch your films with an audience. Don’t you miss hearing them scream? AH: No. I can hear them when I’m making the picture. Do you feel that the American film remains the most vital cinema? Worldwide, yes. Because when we make films for the United States, we...
Death and Life – Landscapes of the Soul: The Cinema of Alexander Dovzhenko
By Jonathan Rosenbaum “When I speak of poetry, I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. . . . Think of Mandelstam, think of Pasternak, Chaplin, Dovzhenko, Mizoguchi, and you’ll realize what tremendous emotional power is carried by these exalted...
Seeing WARHOL: 14 Artists Reflect His Vision, and Dozens of Friends Remember him.
Seeing WARHOL 14 ARTISTS REFLECT HIS VISION, AND DOZENS OF FRIENDS REMEMBER HIM. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION OF ANDY? Francesco Clemente: A mirror with eyes. Patti D’arbanville: I thought he was a perv. Dennis Hopper: I thought he was a terrific artist-everybody had been talking about the return to reality of abstract expressionism. And...
