Nov 18, 2011
By John Everhart
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Assuming an audacious timbre few filmmakers since Stanley Kubrick have dared to explore, the recent works of Werner Herzog have jarringly stemmed from singular obsessions.
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Nov 11, 2011
By Chris Tinkham
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In May, Kirsten Dunst won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her lead performance in director Lars von Trier's nightmarish end of the world drama, Melancholia. As this year's Hollywood award season gets into swing, Dunst has a laugh looking back at her first major award ceremony experience, at the Golden Globes in 1995, when she was 12 years old. More
Nov 05, 2011
By Chris Tinkham
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With her feature-length directing debut, Green, Brooklyn-based filmmaker and actress Sophia Takal wanted to examine how friendships between women can be destroyed by jealousy, and how the urge to measure oneself against someone else is detrimental to such relationships. More
Oct 14, 2011
By Chris Tinkham
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As Spanish actress Elena Anaya discusses her craft, she speaks with wonderment in her voice. She credits her passion for acting to her mother, who encouraged her as a child to play rather than subverting her daughter's curiosity with the word "no" or discouraging her from touching objects. Anaya unconsciously demonstrates this by picking up the digital recorder in front of her and banging it on the table, before realizing that she might be damaging it and apologizing. In director Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, The Skin I Live In, Anaya appears in a flesh-colored body suit that stretches from her neck to her feet and wraps around her fingers and toes like gloves. Her character, Vera, is both a prisoner and passion project of Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), a plastic surgeon intent on creating a skin immune to cuts, insect bites and fire.
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Sep 02, 2011
By Chris Tinkham
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U.S. audiences might know French actress Ludivine Sagnier best from her work with director François Ozon. Their three-film collaboration began with Water Drops on Burning Rocks, released in 2000, and culminated in 2003 with Swimming Pool, the half-English, half-French-language thriller that featured a bikini-clad Sagnier front and center on its advertising art. In a climate that's been increasingly difficult for foreign-language films to find distribution in the States, Sagnier, one of France's most well-known and respected actresses, has been a fixture in U.S. art houses over the last decade. Yet, she has resisted the lure of Hollywood; her occasional forays into English-language films have been for international directors. Sagnier's dynamic, multilayered performance in Alain Corneau's psychological thriller, Love Crime, will only amplify the overtures of American filmmakers. More
Apr 22, 2011
By John Everhart
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Under the Radar caught up with comedian Ed Helms (The Office, The Hangover) to discuss his upcoming bluegrass festival, formative musical influences, and the karma he'll never earn back from some of his segments on The Daily Show. More
Mar 03, 2011
By Chris Tinkham
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If you're an 18-year old nascent film actress, and your first speaking part is in a low-budget Australian indie directed by a 19-year-old who gathered the financing by knocking on neighborhood doors, you wouldn't expect the gig to take you to Cannes a year later or lead to Hollywood auditions. With no delusions of grandeur, Adelaide native Teresa Palmer couldn't have dreamed of such an outcome for her film debut. But that's what happened. More
Feb 11, 2011
By Chris Tinkham
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When writer/director Aaron Katz talks about the making of his third feature film, Cold Weather, the Portland native uses "we" rather than "I." "We" includes friends/producers Brendan McFadden and Ben Stambler, who share story credits with Katz on the film. All three attended the North Carolina School of the Arts. Cold Weather, about a forensic science student (Cris Lankenau) who drops out of college in Chicago and moves back home to live with his sister (Trieste Kelly Dunn) in Portland, at first plays like something we've come to associate with mumblecore. But the film, which is interspersed with quietly picturesque shots of the Portland area, takes a fun, unexpected turn into the realm of genre. More
Oct 08, 2010
By Chris Tinkham
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In Stone, Edward Norton plays Gerald "Stone" Creeson, a prison inmate who's served the majority of his sentence for covering up the death of his grandparents. Jack Mabry, played by Robert De Niro, is the parole official who holds the keys to Stone's future. As a series of erratic and increasingly contentious confrontations ensue between the two characters, questions about spirituality and the right to judge come to the fore. Under the Radar spoke with Stone director John Curran (We Don't Live Here Anymore, The Painted Veil) last week about working with two of today's most respected actors. More
