BOMB 118/Winter 2012
WEB EXCLUSIVE The legendary animator and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, innovator of documents of generational angst like Fritz the Cat and Coonskin, has turned to visual art.
WEB EXCLUSIVE The director of the underground classics Variety and Luminous Motion speaks with Evangeline Morphos. Those and other films by Gordon are screening this weekend at Anthology Film Archives.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Dean Wareham, of the revered Galaxie 500, Luna, and now Dean & Britta, on curating and scoring 13 Most Beautiful People, a new DVD of Warhol Screen Tests.
WEB EXCLUSIVE So Yong Kim’s second feature film Treeless Mountain vaulted her to the fore of a group of young filmmakers being called Neo-Neo Realists. She spoke with Ryan Fleck, co-director of the recent film Sugar.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Tom Kalin interviewed by Bette Gordon at Columbia University in May 2008.
Me and You and Everyone We Know pre-opening event at the IFC Center, New York City, Spring 2005
Fudong, known for his his elegant, puzzle-like films, speaks with curator Li Zhenhua about his latest project The Fifth Night.
In an exchange with Chris Chang, Natalia Almada discusses her latest documentary, El Velador, and her motives for filming in a cemetery in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
Sebastián Silva’s highly realistic films are also thrillers. Set in Chile and performed by ensemble casts who replicate their counterparts in life with stunning veracity, his latest film, Old Cats, opens in New York this spring.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, won the 2010 Palme d’Or at Cannes. Lawrence Chua talks to the filmmaker about Thai history and its ghosts.
Against cinematic representation and a staunch advocate for the real, the Mexican filmmaker is more interested in his actors’ presence than their technique. With José Castillo he discusses why feel-good movies make him feel really bad.
With major roles in over 30 films in the past decade, Patricia Clarkson has transcended the ageist stereotype of the American female actor. The star of Woody Allen’s Whatever Works and the upcoming Cairo Time talks with poet Howard Altmann.
En Español El artista venezolano radicado en Nueva York colabora con pacientes mentales “para curar a los cuerdos de su lucidez”.
Téllez casts and collaborates with the mentally disabled to “cure the sane of their lucidity.” Reyes and Téllez muse over the philosophical underpinnings of theater and film—from Aristotle to Godard.
Dabis wrote her film Amreeka, in theaters now, in response to her family’s Arab-American experience. An immigrant’s tale, the search for a better future in the Promised Land is full of seismic changes.
Guy Maddin, consummate Winnipegian experimentalist, and Isabella Rossellini, his Scanditalian muse, on what else but their dream-life, mothers and fathers, classical drama, and, yes, melodrama!
Buckingham’s film-based projects focus more on our contemporary reading of historical events than on imagining an ultimately irretrievable past. Their aim: to engage viewers in actively creating the present.
En Español! La pionera del nuevo cine argentino ha dirigido tres películas igualmente perturbadoras e intensas. En La Mujer Sin Cabeza se desborda la paranoia de una mujer que no sabe si cometió o no un crimen.
Lucrecia Martel is the first Latin American—and the first woman—director to be the subject of the “Tribute to” program at this summer’s Sarajevo Film Festival. A pioneer of New Argentine Cinema, Martel spoke to Haden Guest in 2009.
Filmmakers Kelly Reichardt and Gus Van Sant on Reichardt’s new film, Wendy and Lucy, Oregon, decay, and making a feature film with $20,000.
Harmony Korine’s newest film, Trashhumpers, just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. He spoke with Richard Bishop about Mister Lonely in this 2008 interview.
Karim Aïnouz’s Madame Satã broke taboos on all sorts of sexuality. The filmmakers discuss the internal geography of a peripatetic outsider, and the contradictions of their country and the condition of human nature.
Filmed in Sicily, Small Boats completes the trilogy Cast No Shadow (commissioned by PERFORMA 07). The two directors speak about migration, transition, and fallen angels.
With recent DVD releases of his films and a Cannes premiere this spring, the legendary Hungarian filmmaker has morphed from rebel outsider into cult auteur. The Man from London premieres this fall at the 44th New York Film Festival.
Mary Jordan’s documentary on the legendary Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures) fueled the same debates Smith faced in his lifetime—on authenticity, ownership, and purity of vision. With artist Nayland Blake.
Director Steven Shainberg and producer Andrew Fierberg share a successful partnership forged in projects like Secretary and their latest, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. The two sit down to compare notes.
Los Angeles-based actress Esther K. Chae traveled to South Korea to speak with renowned film director Park Chanwook about the final installment in his revenge trilogy, Lady Vengeance, just out in the States.
Israeli filmmaker Judd Ne’eman has unflinchingly analyzed the collective distress of Jews and Arabs since the ‘70s. Scholar Janet Burstein caught up with Ne’eman to discuss his dedication to his land and its peoples.
Culiacán-based filmmaker Beto Gómez works against the grain of a Mexico City–dominated film industry to produce some of the most exciting new films in Mexico, including his most recent, Pink Punch.
These two New York natives discuss growing up in Brooklyn, the allure of the of the Museum of Natural History, and the perils of the autobiographical question in this instant classic from 2005.
