Indie Outlook Picks the 2021 Nominees
My annual article selecting the films and artists I’d love to see nominated during this year’s awards season further affirms why my Best of 2021 list was alphabetized. There were […]
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Top 20 Films of 2021
It has only been within the last few months that I began seeing movies in a theater again. Attending press screenings has felt akin to a family reunion, allowing me […]
Indie Flashback: Marjane Satrapi on “Persepolis”
The following interview with author/filmmaker Marjane Satrapi was originally published in the February 11th, 2008 issue of my college paper, The Columbia Chronicle. I was deeply moved by her words, […]
Indie Flashback: Hanna Hall on “Forrest Gump,” “The Virgin Suicides” and “Scalene”
The following interview was originally published on August 9th, 2012 at HollywoodChicago.com. By the age of 15, actress Hanna Hall had delivered iconic lines in two of the most acclaimed […]
Remembering Ed Asner: Our Conversation from 2011
As soon as news broke that the great Ed Asner died today at age 91, my mind immediately raced back to the interview I conducted with him a decade ago […]
Emma Thatcher on “Fletcher”
The following article was written by Rebecca Martin, publisher of Cinema Femme Magazine and founder of the Cinema Femme Short Film Festival. A young woman (Allyson Womack) walks back home […]
Writing for RogerEbert.com: Vol. 7
As I mentioned in Part I of this anniversary retrospective, last year’s lockdown dramatically shifted my priorities, both personally and professionally. I proposed to the love of my life in […]
Indie Outlook: Ninth Anniversary
The past year could’ve very easily been the last of my site, Indie Outlook. I founded it the day after Independence Day in 2012 as a way to provide a […]
Indie Flashback: Gaspar Noé on “Enter the Void”
The following interview was originally published on September 22nd, 2010, at HollywoodChicago.com. Few films have conveyed the sensation of an out-of-body experience quite like “Enter the Void,” the latest feature […]
Indie Flashback: Todd Solondz on “Dark Horse”
The following interview was originally published on June 25th, 2012 at HollywoodChicago.com. The term “arrested development” could easily be applied not only to every character in a Todd Solondz picture, […]
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