Filmwax Radio Montclair Film Festival 2018 Edition! Guests include returning co-directors Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck with their new film "When She Runs; and filmmaker Ben Niles for his first visit with his documentary "The 5 Browns: Digging Through the Darkness". Music by Brett Dennen from his recent EP "Let's".
Actor John Carroll Lynch returns (he was last on Ep 430) to the podcast with his latest film, "Anything". He's joined by his director Timothy McNeil. The film opens on Friday, May 11th at the AMC Empire in NYC & at the Laemmle Monica Center in LA.
President of Entertainment & Co-founder of the blockchain studio SingularDTV, Kim Jackson, is the guest in the first segment; then film editor & producer Max Heller ("Summer of Blood"), Max Heller, has directed his first feature, a romantic comedy called "Born Guilty" starring Rosanna Arquette, which opens nationally on Mother's Day Weekend, next Friday, May 11th.
Tribeca Film Festival 2018 Edition: filmmaker Dawn Porter discusses "Bobby Kennedy for President", a Netflix documentary series, which premieres globally 4/27; and filmmakers John Maringouin & Molly Lynch discuss their new feature which premiered at the festival, Ghostbox Cowboy starring Filmwax friends David Zellner & Robert Longstreet.
Another Episode covering SxSW 2018 including the team from the dreamed "Boundaries" including actors Vera Farmiga & Lewis MacDougall, and director Shana Feste; the director & 2 producers from the doc "The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons from a Mythical Man"; and L.A. based experimental filmmaker Amir Motlagh.
From SxSW 2018: Two documentarians and their subjects. First up Dick Cavett returns with filmmaker Robert Bader with their film, "Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes"; then filmmaker Jeremy Workman returns for his 4th visit to discuss his latest, "The World Before Your Feet" with his subject Matt Green.
Jam packed episode with the team behind "The Rider", director Chloé Zhao & actor Brady Jandreau, in theaters 4/13; filmmaker Trish Adlesic with the documentary "I Am Evidence" which premieres on HBO 4/16; and from SxSW, the team behind the film "All Square" including actors Harris Yulin & Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
Guests on. this episode include the host of the Criterion Now podcast, Aaron West; and filmmaker Matt Ogens ("Confessions of a Superhero") with a new documentary, "Home + Away" which will have its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday, April 21st, 1PM at the Cinepolis Theater in Chelsea, NYC.
Lynne Ramsay in the first segment discusses her 4th feature due out this Friday, 4/6, called "You Were Never Really Here", a thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix; and filmmaker Joe Berlinger stops by for his third appearance to chat about True Crime and his input at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (4/5—4/8).
Filmmaker Andrew Dosunmu ("Mother of George") returns to the podcast with his new film called "Where is Kyra?" which stars Michelle Pfeiffer & Kiefer Sutherland. Also, from SxSW, filmmaker Andrew Haigh & actor Charlie Plummer with their new film "Lean on Pete". Both films opens on Friday, April 6th.
Returning to the podcast, Lynn Shelton whose new drama, "Outside In" starring Edie Falco & Jay Duplass, will have its theatrical beginning 3/30 in NYC & LA, then SVOD 4/3. Sam Pollard returns with a number of new projects inlacing "ACORN and the Firestorm", which will have a theatrical in NYC at the Metrograph beginning April 6th.
Film scholar, author, professor & interviewer Annette Insdorf has a new book called "Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes" published by Columbia University Press. She will also be hosting the next installment of her interview series, Reel Pieces, at the 92nd Street Y, a conversation with actor Andie MacDowell on March 28th. Tickets are still available.
Actor & filmmaker Joshua Leonard is in the latest Steven Soderbergh film —a thriller shot on an iPhone— called "Unsane". The film, which is being distributed by Bleecker Street Media and Fingerprint Releasing, opens this Friday, March 23rd in NYC and LA. Then indie filmmaker Mike Ott calls in from Berlin to discuss his particular style of filmmaking, and his love of movies.
Lloyd Kaufman, co-founder of Troma Films, returns to the podcast after a 400 episode lapse of judgment. Lloyd and Troma continue, however, to disrupt the film & media industries. This episode was recorded at the offices of Troma Films in Queens, NY.
Grady Henrix, co-founder of the Subway Series & the New York Asian Film Festival and biographer Scott Eyman.