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By Terry Keefe
(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
And now we pause for some startling statistics: 20% of the planet's population uses 80% of its resources…and consumes 30% more than the planet can...
(Filmmaker Susan Seidelman, above.)
by Jon Zelazny
In the early 80’s NYC cultural lull between Patti Smith’s retirement and Jay McInerney’s breakout, NYU film school graduate Susan Seidelman did the scrappy shoestring indie film thing,...
(Ross McCall and Eric Roberts, left, in "Crash.")
By Terry Keefe
(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
It isn’t necessarily great news for an actor to hear that the television series they’ve been starring in is...
NICOLAS CAGE: BAD TO THE BONE
By
Alex Simon
It’s an inevitable event in every accomplished artist’s life: if you go back on the timeline of their existence and stop in adolescence, almost all of our greatest actors, writers, filmmakers, musicians...
WERNER HERZOG BRINGS THE MUSIC BACK
By
Alex Simon
Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor and opera director Werner Herzog was born Werner H. Stipetić on 5 September 1942 in Munich. His family moved to the remote Bavarian...
Great collection of interviews with filmmakers and actors (with a musician or two thrown in for good measure), along with original content.
Keefe and Simon's interviews with some truly legendary Hollywood and European film icons rate up there with anything done in Playboy, Sight & Sound, or on The Charlie Rose Show--smart stuff written with smart people in mind. God knows, the web needs more sites like this one!