In The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, writer/director Ned Benson reminds us of the movies’ ability to condense time without recurring to extremist formalist methods. The almost-decade-long relationship he explores in the film couldn’t be more …Read more

The problem with interviewing Jess Weixler is that she makes you feel so comfortable that you forget you did your research and have a series of James Lipton-y questions to ask her. The minute I walked into the room where she was, she pointed at my ne …Read more

I spoke on the phone to Tony-award winner Victoria Clark about her work in Sharon Greytak’s Archaeology of a Woman (in theaters September 12) and after we hung up something strange happened. Miss Clark called me back because she said she had some que …Read more

In Archaeology of a Woman, writer/director Sharon Greytak tells the compelling story of Margaret (Sally Kirkland) a woman trying fiercely to hold on to the secrets she’s guarded for decades, as she faces the irreversible cruelty of Alzheimer’s diseas …Read more

Sally Kirkland has never been one to shy away from intense emotions. In Anna she gave one of the seminal performances of the 1980s as a middle-aged actress trying her best to return to the New York stage. She has a unqiue fire in her eyes and her com …Read more

In Tim Sutton’s poetic Memphis, the camera captures musician Willis (blues artist Willis Earl Beal) in a number of haunting scenes as he tries to get back into his creative groove and deliver the record everyone in the film keeps talking about. Willi …Read more

I met Signe Baumane in a crowded midtown cafe to discuss her new film Rocks in My Pockets; she broke the ice by telling me something very interesting about my surname, “in Latvian it means steps”, she said with a bright smile. I told her I had no ide …Read more

Billy Wilder’s Fedora is quite the oddity in terms of how the story within the film eerily resembles its production. By the mid-1970s Wilder was a renowned genius known for his classics like The Apartment and Some Like It Hot, who was having trouble …Read more

The year is 1988 and 12-year-old Fiona (Lori Prince) is trying her best to understand why she feels a certain way about her classmate Margo (Autumn Hurlbert), the feisty redhead who keeps insisting Fiona join the kickball team and finally help them d …Read more

Renaissance man Trav S.D. truly does it all; as actor, author, comedian, cartoonist, producer, playwright and renowned vaudevillian, he has continuously helped promote independent theater, which is why it was no surprise to see him create pure stage …Read more