Interviews

From the late ‘60s through the late ‘70s, producer and distributor Sam Sherman and his company Independent-International Pictures Corporation released a trove of movies, many of them directed by the late cult filmmaker Al Adamson, including Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Nurse...

Work is quiet right now for Inorca Seating’s Karla Banuelos—for obvious reasons. Personal life, not so much—a worldwide pandemic, a quarantine, and six sons between the ages of one and seventeen will do that. With the world (understatement incoming) in...

Stuart Gordon, director of the 1980s horror cult classics Re-Animator and From Beyond, has died at the age of 72. Founder of the Organic Theater Company with his wife, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, he was also the co-creator of the family favorite Honey, I Shrunk the Kids....

The entertainment industry has witnessed much change in this age of multinational mega-mergers, and the Motion Picture Association has been touched by those changes as well. Charles Rivkin has overseen some of them as the head of that industry association,...

Bacurau (translated from the Portuguese as “nighthawk”) is a fictional village in northeastern Brazil and the setting of the latest film from Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius, Neighboring Sounds) and his production designer turned co-director, Juliano Dornelles. Bacurau the movie is...

The world’s not hurting for Jane Austen adaptations. Your nowhere-near comprehensive list includes: Last year’s Sanditon miniseries, from Austen vet Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, 1995; Sense and Sensibility, 2008). Three years earlier came Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship (“How...

One of the great strengths of mega-successful Pixar Animation Studios is its willingness to let its artists tell very personal stories. Pete Docter based his Oscar-winning Inside Out on the sudden change in his ebullient young daughter’s personality as she...

Writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers, his first feature made outside his native Romania, has dialogue in Romanian, Spanish, English…and El Silbo. What is El Silbo? It’s a language used on La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands, consisting entirely of...

Corpus Christi, one of the four worthy features that lost to Parasite in the Oscars’ newly branded International Film category, was inspired by the strange but true case of a young man who successfully posed as a priest for four...

Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire will take you on an unusual, stormy ride. And make no mistake; it will break your heart. Set against the white-washed isolated cliffs of Brittany at the end of the 18th century,...