What Is Love? Mania Akbari Talks About Life, Love, and 20 Angosht (20 Fingers)
This first-time director from Iran inspires cheers and controversy
Category: Interviews
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Interviews
“Plant Your Feet and Tell the Truth”: An Interview with Clint Eastwood
On Million Dollar Baby and a million-dollar career
Asian · Directors · Interviews
Talking to Hirokazu Kore-eda: On Maborosi, Nobody Knows, and Other Pleasures
“I simply want to look at people as they are.”
Animation · Animators · Interviews
“It’s Amazing I’ve Survived”: An Interview with Bill Plympton
“The football game where the chicken mascot runs around crazy with an erection was inspired by a story that someone told me…”
You Look Pretty Splendid Yourself, Orson: A Conversation with Curtis Harrington
On unfinished projects and friendship
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews · LGBT & Queer
Keep on Truckin’ An Interview with Joe Gage
A gay-porn pioneer speaks
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Interviews · Visual Artists
An Actionist Begins to Sing: An Interview with Otto Mühl
“I have been making art for 50 years and have never allowed myself to be corrupted. Quite the opposite, I was locked up.” – Otto Mühl As I tremulously reflect[…]
Actors & Personalities · Interviews
“Redefine What It Means to You”: Talking with Margaret Cho
The “All American Girl” on her new movie, her influences, and the joy of high colonics As the quote implies, Margaret Cho is no stranger to redefinition, mostly because she’s[…]
“Sure I’ll Do It”: An Interview with Robert Wise
This movie master is still busy after all these years Few artists in the history of the medium have mastered their craft so well as has filmmaker Robert Wise. The[…]
Directors · Horror · Interviews
The Wizard of Gore: Herschell Gordon Lewis Speaks
Wit and wisdom from the man who created one of cinema’s most enduring genres JOHN WISNIEWSKI: Your background in academics was quite different from that of your partner David Friedman.[…]
Actors & Personalities · Asian · Interviews
An Evening with Jackie Chan: Interview and Profile
This article appeared originally in the all-Hong Kong issue of Bright Lights #13 (1994). * * * Jackie spills his guts – verbally, this time I first met Jackie Chan in 1980,[…]
Asian · Directors · Interviews
Interview with John Woo
This article appeared originally in the all-Hong Kong issue of Bright Lights #13 (1994). * * * Hong Kong’s master of balletic blood ‘n bulletplay speaks John Woo, one of[…]
Interview with Béla Tarr: About Werckmeister Harmonies (Cannes 2000, Director’s Fortnight)
A bar in a provincial town. A strange dance is underway, with three drunken patrons enacting an eclipse, sun, moon, and earth circling and interposing. The dance is choreographed by[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
“Not That I’m Horatio Alger”: Russ Meyer on The Supervixens
SuperRuss speaks! I interviewed Russ Meyer in 1974 at his office in Los Angeles. He answered the door himself, dressed in red jockey shorts with a strip of film dangling over his[…]
Actors & Personalities · Interviews
Interview with Louise Hassing, or Live Cinema
Dogme secrets revealed by Lars von Trier’s “most promising actress” The 17th International Short Films Festival of Aix en Provence, in December 1999, apart from the competition, focused on Scandinavian[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
Roger Corman on New World Pictures: An Interview from 1974
Fun in the New World Corman founded New World in 1970; it was his second attempt to control production and distribution (after the ill-fated Film Group, which lasted a couple[…]
Chatting about Other Things: An Interview with Federico Fellini
The Master speaks on life, art, and Carlos Castaneda Federico Fellini’s fantasy world, which has become more dreamlike over the years, shows us the spectacle of life. Yet, paradoxically, the[…]
Directors · Interviews · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Ellen Cabot – no, Victoria Sloan -, no, David DeCoteau Speaks!
The auteur of Petticoat Planet and Retro-Puppetmaster discusses his the kinky leatherboy arthouse epic Leather Jacket Love Story and other things How much did Leather Jacket Love Story (1998) cost?[…]
Actors & Personalities · Interviews
“I’m Not the Statue of Liberty”: An Interview with Sylvia Miles
The dragon-voiced diva chats us up Sylvia Miles’ reputation in the 1970s was based on three things: her 6-minute bit as a New York hooker in Midnight Cowboy, her peerless[…]
Directors · Interviews · Silents
Angel in Exile, Part II: Talking with Pioneering Director Allan Dwan
Outtakes from an Interview with Dwan, December 1980 * * * Fairbanks, Shirley Temple, Ronald Reagan, all the “pansies and poseurs of Hollywood” – no one was safe from the[…]
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