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…

10 years ago
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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…

25 years ago
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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…

26 years ago
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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…

28 years ago
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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…

30 years ago
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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,…

30 years ago
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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…

30 years ago
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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…

30 years ago
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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…

30 years ago
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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…

30 years ago
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Is Seattle Asleep at the Reel?

"I said I liked it, I didn't say I wanted to kiss it.”—Gloria Grahame to Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely…

30 years ago
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Roman Keeps on Rolling

I was fifteen the year Roman Polanski's Chinatown came to the screen. My grandmother had been a dancer in the…

30 years ago
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Peter Coyote is Not P.C.

"Eternity for me began one fall day in Paris..." So speaks Peter Coyote's latest character, Oscar, in Roman Polanski's Bitter…

30 years ago
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Grant’s a Hugh Success

Easier? Why? Grant slips into a "DeNiro-esque” street twang for this answer.  "Well, you know Americans are kinda looser, you…

30 years ago