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The Hollywood Interview with Corneliu Porumboiu, director of Police, Adjective
24 December 2009 4:03 PM, PST
(Dragos Bucur, above, as Cristi in a scene from Police, Adjective, and Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, below.)
By Terry Keefe
It's a world apart from "CSI." Cristi, the young Romanian police detective played by Drago Bucur in director Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective (Politist, adj.), is on a case far removed from the hip procedural universe of cool lighting, clothes, and shocking plot twists that we've come to know on network television. Instead, the director puts us right in the middle of low-level surveillance work in Romania, and lets us feel the ennui of this daily grind. Cristi inhabits a world of paperwork and bureaucracy, and the way he fills out an official form, and the words that he uses to do so, can make a big difference in the life of the person he is writing about. The plot twists in Police, Adjective come not from action set pieces, »
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Philippe Mora: The Hollywood Interview
22 December 2009 11:28 AM, PST
"Stand and deliver, sir!" Dennis Hopper in Philippe Mora's Mad Dog Morgan.
Philippe Mora: Ballad Of A Mad Dog
By
Alex Simon
Born in Paris in 1949, Philippe Mora is a member of one of Australia’s best known artistic families. His parents, Georges Mora and Mirka Mora, migrated to Australia from France in 1951 and settled in Melbourne, where they quickly became key figures on the Melbourne cultural scene. Georges, a wartime resistance fighter, became an influential art dealer, and in 1967 he founded one of the first commercial art galleries in Melbourne, Tolarno Galleries. The Mora family home and restaurants were focal points of Melbourne's bohemian subculture. As a result of this, Philippe and his brothers had what he has described as a "culturally privileged childhood."
Philippe moved to London in late 1967 to pursue painting and filmmaking. He was one of many important Australian artists, writers and others who »
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Vera Farmiga: The Hollywood Interview 2009
21 December 2009 9:13 AM, PST
(Vera Farmiga, right, and George Clooney in Up In The Air.)
by Terry Keefe
(Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
The first time we interviewed actress Vera Farmiga was in early 2001, at Swingers Diner on Beverly, over French fries. It was around 8 in the evening, as she had to spend the day auditioning for a network pilot. She was promoting a supporting role in a relatively forgettable Robert De Niro-Ed Burns cop thriller called Fifteen Minutes, where she played a Eastern European hairdresser who witnesses a murder. Parking was scarce in the neighborhood, to the point that we first met that night while angling for the same spot. Today, things have changed somewhat. We’re meeting at a ridiculously large and posh board room at the Beverly Hilton, which reminds of the one in Network where uber-exec Ned Beatty chews out Peter Finch’s Howard Beale. Valets take care of the cars. »
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Peter Sarsgaard: The Hollywood Interview
21 December 2009 9:12 AM, PST
(Peter Sarsgaard in An Education, above.)
by Terry Keefe
(Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
Like a seal of approval, it’s always a good sign of a film’s merit to see Peter Sarsgaard in the opening credits, because he chooses his projects well, whether it has been in a leading or supporting role. For a few years now, he has been in a strong enough career position that he could opt only to play leads, even if those were in smaller films, but from his film choices, he has also clearly been more interested in the quality of role, and not necessarily the size of the part, or the paycheck. As Mark, the uniquely resourceful slacker best friend of Zach Braff in Garden State, and as Clyde Martin, the protégé in Kinsey, and in his portrayal of real-life New Republic editor Charles Lane in Shattered Glass, and »
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Anna Kendrick: The Hollywood Interview
21 December 2009 8:34 AM, PST
(Anna Kendrick and George Clooney, above, in Up In The Air.)
By Terry Keefe (Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
Anna Kendrick has always excelled at playing the smartest person in the room, and one who you definitely want to watch your back around. We were introduced to Kendrick in her big-screen debut, Todd Graff’s Camp in 2003, when she played young teen actress wannabe Fritzi Wagner in a notable supporting role. Described by one adult character in the film as a “scary little girl,” Wagner begins the story as a mousy sidekick to blonde theater star diva Jill (Alana Allen), but then manages to quite literally push Jill off the stage in a fierce All About Eve-style turnaround. In 2007, Kendrick won critical acclaim for her work as manipulative high school debate champion Ginny Ryerson in Rocket Science. Like Fritzi Wagner, Ginny Ryerson had a freaky air of intelligence well beyond her years, »
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