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PFA: The Evening Class "Exit" Interview With Steve Seid
In recent years PFA programmer Steve Seid has become one of my favorite quipsters. Case in point, when I learned that he was retiring from the Pacific Film Archive (PFA) after 26 years of service, I...
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FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (2013)—The Evening Class Q&A With Charlie Siskel
The story told by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel's documentary Finding Vivian Maier (2013) is intriguingly open-ended, provoking questions not only about the biographical details of a charismatic yet...
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A RARE NOIR IS GOOD TO FIND—Un Condamné À Mort S'est Échappé (A Man Escaped,...
As an appropriate segué from last November's wildly successful French noir series "The French Had A Name For It", the opening night double-bill for "A Rare Noir Is Good to Find" (running...
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A RARE NOIR IS GOOD TO FIND—Tulipunainen kyyhkynen (The Scarlet Dove, 1961) /...
Now here's a very odd double-bill pairing Finnish director Matti Kassila's Tulipunainen kyyhkynen (The Scarlet Dove, 1961) with Hong Kong's Tian-lin Wang's Ye Mei Gui Zhi Lian (The Wild, Wild Rose,...
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CINEASTE 40:2 (Spring 2015)—TWO INTERVIEWS
I'm proud to announce the publication of the Spring 2015 issue of Cineaste (40:2) magazine, in which two of my interviews have been published. The print issue includes my conversation with Abderrahmane...
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THROWBACK THURSDAY—The Greencine Interview with Béla Tarr (The Man From...
With The Man From London (2007), Béla Tarr creates what David Bordwell might characterize as a "grave and majestic" portrait of a conflicted man gripped by a state of scepsis. Tethered to the mundane,...
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SVFF 2015: ZERO POINT—The Evening Class Interview With Gregory Bayne and...
Early on when I arrived in the Treasure Valley and set about to familiarize myself with Boise's local film production scene, I accepted an assignment to survey same for Fusion magazine. I approached...
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SVFF 2015: GIRL FROM GOD'S COUNTRY—The Evening Class Interview With Karen Day
Photo courtesy of Afghan Women's Justice ProjectA San Francisco native who used to dance with the San Francisco Ballet, publishing—as she states on her website—is in Karen Day's DNA. Her great uncles,...
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VIEW FROM A PEDAL BUGGY (2015)
Design: Ryan JohnsonZach Voss's short film View From A Pedal Buggy (2015) first came to my attention when interviewing Andrew Ellis for both the 2012 edition of i48 and an overview of Idaho film...
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HUNKS IN HORROR: BLOOD RIDERS: THE DEVIL RIDES WITH US (2014)—The Evening...
Photo: Steph MartyniukIt's been a while since I've added an entry to this sidebar on The Evening Class, wherein we celebrate the horror genre as an entryway for many young actors to kick off their...
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ROXIE: THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT—The Evening Class Interview With Don Malcolm
I first interviewed Don Malcolm in 2014 in connection with his retrospective of the films of Don Murray, likewise the subject of Malcolm's first documentary feature Don Murray: Unsung Hero (scheduled...
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THROWBACK THURSDAY—The Greencine Interview with David Cronenberg & Viggo...
(Originally published on the Greencine website, October 2007.)David Cronenberg has long been fascinated with the liminal properties of human skin. He recognizes the body as a site of potential...
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A RARE NOIR IS GOOD TO FIND—"Japon Negro" Triple-Bill
"I've no use for the dawn. I love these evil nights."—Seiko (Pale Flower, 1964).In his program notes for the upcoming Roxie Theatre international noir series "A Rare Noir Is Good To Find", Donald...
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CLUB SANDWICH (2013)—The Fandor / Keyframe Interview with Fernando Eimbcke
My thanks to Jonathan Marlow at Fandor and Susan Gerhard at Keyframe for inviting me to interview Fernando Eimbcke during the 2014 edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF), when...
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TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE (2012)—The Fandor / Keyframe Interview with Jeremy...
My thanks to Jonathan Marlow at Fandor and Susan Gerhard at Keyframe for publishing my conversation with filmmakers Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas during the 2013 edition of the San Francisco...
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THROWBACK THURSDAY—The Greencine Interview With Herschell Gordon Lewis
(Originally published on the Greencine website, February 2007.)These days Herschell Gordon Lewis has made a pretty penny for himself as a direct communicator—one might say a "shining light"—in the...
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FABIOLA / THE FIGHTING GLADIATOR (1949)
Let's hear it for the creative side effects of Christian indignation! In 1853, Charles Kingsley authored Hypatia, whose deliberate anti-Catholic tone incensed English Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman to pen...
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SFFCC: MARLON RIGGS AWARD—The Evening Class Interview With Joel Shepard
Congratulations were in order—Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Film and Video curator Joel Shepard had been given the San Francisco Film Critics Circle's annual Marlon Riggs Award ("for courage...
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READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP: THE FILMS OF BILLY WILDER—David Thomson on Some Like...
The Pacific Film Archive (PFA) series "Ready For His Close-up: The Films of Billy Wilder" (programmed by Steve Seid) begins to wind down this weekend with three of Wilder's most creative efforts: a...
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A RARE NOIR IS GOOD TO FIND—Il Rossetto (Lipstick, 1960) / Bundfald (Dregs /...
Acknowledging that "youthful misjudgment can lead to transgression and tragedy", Donald Malcolm identifies the brutal loss of innocence as a presiding theme of noir and offers two narratives from Italy...
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