All posts by Kathleen McInnis
-
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.... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Jonathan Blank
The most liberal country in the world has the same low rate (of heroin users) as one of the most totalitarian countries... -
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... -
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:...
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Guide 2019
Summer 2018
Spring 2018
Year in MovieMaker
Inside the Issue: Acting
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8