David Geffner

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The Naked Truth About Film Nudity

There’s a line in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus, the film released late last year that Variety dubbed, “unquestionably the most…

17 years ago
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The Indie Summer Blockbuster

Stars Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith is poised to top this summer’s box office. Ah, the timeless…

19 years ago
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The Making of Blockbuster

Spider-Man Producer Jon Landau tells the story about when he first had an inkling he was part of a rare…

20 years ago
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The Indie Distribution Crisis

TOP TO BOTTOM: After The Shooting Gallery closed its doors, Eammon Bowles moved to Magnolia Films, whose indie features Read…

22 years ago
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Shooting Stars, Part II (The Women)

MARK MY WORDS: there will come a time in Hollywood, and it won't be long,  when the whole "gender thing'…

25 years ago
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Latin Cinema: The Next Generation

Vanessa Martinez in John Sayles' Limbo. It is indeed la vida loca, the crazy life, right now for that loose…

25 years ago
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Shooting Stars, Part II (The Women)

MARK MY WORDS: there will come a time in Hollywood, and it won't be long,  when the whole "gender thing'…

25 years ago
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Billy Bob Thorton: The Hillbilly Orson Welles

He wears his redneck roots like a crown and wields his Deep South eccentricities like a saber, but Billy Bob…

26 years ago
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Shooting Stars: Interviews with the World’s Greatest Living Cinematographers

The power and artistry of cinematographers is writ so large over movie history that most of our film memories would…

26 years ago
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Jim Thompson’s Lost Hollywood Years

Early on in Barton Fink, the Coen Brothers' satire of a beleaguered Hollywood screenwriter, John Turturro's title character eagerly arrives…

27 years ago