Casting Director: Cynthia Plaster Caster on the “biggest rig” she ever saw
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‘The Milkmaid’: First look and Exclusive interview with the Director of movie you gotta see
Sunday morning, flicking through news channels I chanced on a Nigerian breakfast show that held my attention between mouthfuls of cereal. Four women around a…
Watch underground filmmaker Nick Zedd’s director’s cut of ‘The Reckoning’ by the Greys
The Greys: may or may not be a band from New York that are now a one or two-person operation working out of Mexico City.…
Watching ‘The Prisoner’ with ‘Repo Man’ director Alex Cox
It turns out leaving your house still pays sometimes: if I hadn’t stepped into a bookstore last weekend, I would be unaware of Alex Cox’s…
Dangerous Finds: ‘Guardians’ director loves the Replacements; Gun march; Cohen felony charges?
Guardians Of the Galaxy director James Gunn is a HUGE Replacements fanboy and he’s not afraid to tell you about it: “As far as I’m…
Branded to Kill: Japanese cult director Seijun Suzuki’s deepest cuts
In early February, I attended a weekend of rare Seijun Suzuki films at the American Cinematheque here in Los Angeles. Although big screen showings of…
How ‘The Exorcist’ score came together after the director rejected Lalo Schifrin & Bernard Herrmann
Pakistani poster. William Friedkin’s horror film, The Exorcist, has been scaring the pants off of moviegoers—as well as making viewers nauseous—since its 1973 release. Even…
Labor of love: Writer-director-star Alice Lowe on homicidal motherhood & the making of ‘Prevenge’
Alice Lowe’s horror black comedy Prevenge, as you may have gathered from my last post, is pretty likely to be my favorite film of the…
That time the most famous director in Mexico shot a film critic in the balls
Even if you’ve never seen one of Emilio Fernandez’s movies—even if you’ve never seen him in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch or Bring Me the…
‘LET ME DIE IN DRAG!’: The sleazy pulp paperbacks of ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ director Ed Wood
During the 1960s, several years after he’d begun making himself infamous as one of the greatest terrible auteurs in the history of cinema, Edward D.…