My Favorite Films from Each Year
On my final day as a thirty-something, I’d like to honor my favorite art form by singling out a great many films that have enriched my life over the past […]
Tag Archives: Gus Van Sant
Indie Flashback: Gregg Araki on “Kaboom”
The following interview was originally published at HollywoodChicago.com on February 17th, 2011. Perhaps no one but Gregg Araki could make a hallucinogenic, doom-laden mystery as playful and curiously optimistic as […]
Ten Gems Worth Streaming on Disney+
2019 may have been an enormously profitable year for Disney, but it also was the studio’s worst purely in terms of creativity. The more money they make through the franchises […]
Rob Christopher on “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago”
“Come on, Roy, let’s get out of here,” said his mother. The taxi was still waiting with the motor running and they got in. The driver put it into gear […]
Joaquin Phoenix: A Career in Three Acts
“There’s nobody really better than you are,” replied a rather perplexed and amused David Letterman during his hilarious 2009 interview with Joaquin Phoenix, an actor rendered unrecognizable by his scruffy […]
Snapshots from Cannes 2007
For the past seven years, I have felt a twinge of nostalgia every time the Cannes Film Festival returns to the Riviera. My mind always races back to those two […]
Indie Essentials: Mia Wasikowska
What makes a performer magnetic? What rarefied talent must a person possess in order to draw an audience into their inner world? Whatever it is, Mia Wasikowska has it. Boy […]
Indie Outlook 