All posts by Kathleen McInnis
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Reality Bites: 20th Anniversary Retrospective with Ben Stiller
Reality Bites, that seminal early-’90s snapshot of post-college love and ennui, turns 20 years old this week, first premiering February 18, 1994. We dug out...
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Fellow USC Grads/Friends Come of Age
Preston Tylk Preston Tylk Writer/Director Jon Bokenkamp demonstrates a keen eye for the nature of desire and regret in his feature film debut, Preston Tylk....
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Smart, Clean, Raw
Where The Elephant Sits Homo Heights Any film with a title like this has got to have its day on screen. Debuting Director Sara Moore...
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Mike Figgis, Taking a Shot in the Dark
Figgis: Personally, he likes it dirty. (With Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue on the Leaving Las Vegas set). Super 16mm is the independent’s favorite celluloid:...
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Tough Gals Never Die: Faye Dunaway Keeps Going Strong with Arizona Dream
Exploding onto the American screen with her high impact performance as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde (with Warren Beatty, 1967), Faye Dunaway began her...
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Confessions of the Adrenaline Junkies
We’ve seen them for years in every action film or television episode ever aired, but most of us would be hard pressed to name any...
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How To Lose $1.2 Million And Shoot Your Feature Anyway
In writer/director Tim Hines’s latest film, House of the Rising, the running time of one hundred minutes means just that-one hundred minutes of life at...
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Jonathan Blank
The most liberal country in the world has the same low rate (of heroin users) as one of the most totalitarian countries in the world....
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First Lady of Horror
It may have been Norma Shearer who was credited with "discovering" her when she signed with MGM in 1946, but it was Janet Leigh’s shocking...
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The Rage of Innocents
This interview took place at the US premiere of BackBeat in Park City, Utah during the 1994 Sundance Film Festival . MM: Stephen, give us,...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...