Articles in Famous Directors
Kickstarter is taking the film industry to a new level by offering filmmakers the opportunity to fund their movies with the aid of their audience. Lately we have shown an interest in these budding filmmakers …
Danielle Colman brought her film, “Red” to Kickstarter with the hopes of raising $50,000 to aid in production costs. The film is promising with a great cast including Jodelle Ferland (who appeared in The Twilight …
Continuing our interest into the up and coming films looking for backers on Kickstarter, we discovered Craig Thieman’s “Love Letter”. We conducted a short interview with him to learn more about the film and its …
(Aubrey Plaza in Safety Not Guaranteed. Tickets and showtimes here
by Richard von Busack
The endearingly odd Safety Not Guaranteed (a perfect title for a romance) concerns a put-upon intern named Darius (Aubrey Plaza) at …
by Matt Sills
It’s not unusual for filmmakers to drop secrets and surprises into their movies. Whether overt, like Johnny Depps’s cameo in “21 Jump Street”, or subtle, like Pac-Man showing up on a computer screen …
Richard III (1955) plays three nights Mar 20-22 at 7:30pm in Palo Alto, at the Stanford Theatre)
Fun is no measure of greatness, but Laurence Olivier’s Richard III (1955) is certainly the most sheer bloody fun …
(Above: Kate Winslet and Philip Kaufman on the set of Quills.)
By Richard von Busack
San Francisco-based film director Philip Kaufman goes to the Silicon Valley film festival Cinequest this March 9 to discuss his life and …
By Richard von Busack
Sweden’s Tomas Alfredson follows up the best vampire movie of the last few years with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It’s about a different breed of parasites: justifiable (sometimes self-justifiable) as Britain’s last …
By Matt Sills
This Christmas weekend will see six movies get a wide release, each trying to beat the other to a pulp at the box office. Big time directors like David Fincher and Cameron Crowe …
(above: Charles Bronson in the tv show Man With A Camera; episode “Second Avenue Assassin” plays Oct 6 in San Francisco at the Roxie Theater.)
Old-media magnate and maniac Johnny Legend—archivist, wrestling promoter and rockabilly bastard—is …
