“What was a challenge for me was to keep a restrained tone, knowing that at any moment, there is a bomb that could go off,” he explained. “My character can’t go back to jail, but if you don’t have your manhood, what do you have?” — Esai Morales
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ANOTHER EARTH – William Mapother Interview
Concerning a parallel world that first comes into human perception at the exact moment that a young woman causes a horrible tragedy for a family, Another Earth, co-written by Mike Cahill (director) and Brit Marling (star) was a recent smash at the Sundance Film Festival and is now set for a release by Fox Searchlight on July 22. Read the full story »
Soundgarden always got everything right – except their name. The band who first played grunge, even before that musical microcosm had a name or locale, Soundgarden unleashed their muddy blend of heavy metal and slowly-paced sludge rock in the late-1980s, at a time where most metal either resorted to the pop inflections of Poison and their brethren or the stripped-down brute intensity of Guns ‘N’ Roses.
Sometimes when you are doing background research on a person you are going to interview – a word, phrase, or even an entire sentence will stick in your mind. As a writer, you look for symbols – things that represent something else. For me, in researching Hollywood film producer Ashok Amritraj, that hook was the name of his film production company – Hyde Park Entertainment.
I was once friends with an outrageous comedian whose go-go-go personality was manic (as shrinks would describe it) and inspiring (to artists, anyways). He was driven, ballsy and on the constant move, creating his own video segments, playing pranks on people (which he even sold to a network and launched his own career), and doing things not many people would be able to pull off.
How one fashion photographer from India took over the N.Y. fashion world by storm and then moved onto conquering Hollywood.
It is the end of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and the top prize for documentaries goes to an intense character study on one woman’s choice to die.
A sneak peak into the world of fashion with L.A. photographer, Ash Gupta.
Come watch the announcements of this year’s 2011 Oscar nominations – what they don’t want everyone to see.
Is sex, youth, and beauty what defines women and contributes to gender inequality in America? You decide.
How to get funding to make your documentary film and enter the world of Hollywood.