I interviewed the Indie auteur Alex Ross Perry around the release of his last film Listen Up Philip. I sent him some questions about the film, his upcoming projects and film piracy. This is what transpired… With Listen Up Philip you made a film about extremely misanthropic people; did you feel any pressure by the financiers to tone it down? … Continue reading Alex Ross Perry Interview
Nicholas Ray to this day remains one of the most daring directors to ever work within Hollywood to this day. All of his best work deals with deeply damaged individuals if it's James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause to James Mason's portrayal of a drug addicted father in Bigger Than Life. Ray himself was a deeply … Continue reading In A Lonely Place – Blu-Ray Review
Black Mama White Mama is one of many woman in prison films that Pam Grier did in the early ’70s for American International Pictures. It’s basically a low-budget rip-off of The Defiant Ones which starred Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. Eddie Romero was behind the camera who was a Filipino director who made both Filipino language films and also … Continue reading Black Mama, White Mama – Blu-Ray Review
So, a lot of your older films have been re-released on DVD recently over here and in the States. Have you noticed any of your films have been re-evaluated or any new audiences to your work? Well, it’s interesting, you know. Hitchcock once said that his movies went from being flops to classics, and I … Continue reading Interview With Stuart Gordon
I was down at the London Film Festival last year and had the great fortune to talk to Guy Maddin about his latest opus The Forbidden Room. I also got to see it on BFI Southbank iMax which was a headache inducing affair but in a good way. Ian Schultz: Obviously, you’ve shot on digital and film. … Continue reading Guy Maddin Interview
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