DIASPORA BY THE BAY: SFIAAF--Interview With Festival Director Chi-hui Yang

Continuing with my survey of the diasporic dimension of San Franciscan film festival culture, Chi-hui Yang--Festival Director for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAF)--invited me to the offices of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)... More »
  

TIFF 09: Director Rick Jacobson Talks BITCH SLAP!
[This review was originally conducted slightly more than a year ago when the film was still in progress but with Bitch Slap taking its first public appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival now seems like a good time to... More »
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MIDNIGHT MASS 2009—Interview With Joshua Grannell (aka "Peaches Christ")
Joshua Grannell (aka Peaches Christ) and I met up at the Duboce Park Café the Monday after Pride Weekend. As Peaches, Joshua had survived his Pilsner pork pull; an event he agreed to in support of his beloved BLT community.... More »
  

It's A SMASH CUT Frenzy As Sasha Grey Speaks And Lee Demarbre Takes Us Behind The Scenes!
Are you ready for a heaping helping of Smash Cut, Lee Demarbre's tribute to the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis? Because we've got it for you. The film will have its world premiere at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal... More »
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David Hess Talks SMASH CUT
Just yesterday we posted a quick interview with Smash Cut director writer-director Lee Demarbre talking about his tribute to Herschell Gordon Lewis and now we have the star of the film - horror icon David Hess - chiming in with... More »
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Lee Demarbre Talks SMASH CUT
We've been tracking the progress of Lee Demarbre's Smash Cut - the writer-director's tribute to the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis - for a good while now and with the trailer freshly on the scene we had the chance to... More »
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IFFR 2009: Interview with "Looking for Cherry Blossoms" director JO ODAGIRI and two of its stars
This week is a special one in Japan, as this is the time that the whole nation revels in the annual short-lived beauty of the blossoming cherry trees. So while everyone is enchanted by these "Sakura" let's return to one... More »
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From Pontypool to the Metaverse in 98 minutes: A Conversation with Bruce McDonald
So, a mighty piece of genre entertainment is opening tomorrow in Toronto. Pontypool. This talkative apocalyptic nightmare in small town Ontario deserves some love in the face of the marketing juggernaut of Watchmen hitting crescendo to the point of blocking... More »
  

Michael Jai White Says BLACK DYNAMITE Will Return!
With the world premiere of blaxploitation throwback film Black Dynamite at the Sundance Film Festival right around the corner we figured now would be a good time to sit and chat with creator and star Michael Jai White about... More »
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MY NAME IS BRUCE—Interview With Bruce Campbell & Joshua Grannell
There were two questions I purposely avoided asking Bruce Campbell: the first was the status—if any—of Evil Dead 4; a question which Bruce indicated in his Ain't It Cool News interview as the one question "guaranteed" to be asked in... More »
  

An Interview with TOKYO GORE POLICE Director Yoshihiro Nishimura
In September 2008, Yoshihiro Nishimura visited Austin, Texas where his film Tokyo Gore Police (Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu) won the first place prize in the AMD Next Wave competition at Fantastic Fest. The following interview was conducted while Nishimura was in... More »
  

Interview with QUENCH director Zack Parker
Zack Parker's Quench, a unique character study set in the world of "cutters," hits home video courtesy of Vanguard Cinema on October 28th. I was able to speak with Parker about the film earlier this year after catching it at... More »
  

Jason Eisener Talks TREEVENGE and the HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN Feature
Jason Eisener's short film Hobo With a Shotgun won the South by Southwest (SXSW) Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse Trailer Competition back in 2007. As a result, the film was transferred to 35mm and attached to Canadian prints of Quentin Tarantino and... More »
  

Twitch Talks To Legendary Illustrator And MIRROR MASK Director Dave McKean!
I don't think it's any exaggeration at all to say that Dave McKean is a legendary figure in certain circles, his illustration work on Sandman alone would be enough to guarantee that. The man is one of the most distinctive... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

NIFFF 2008 - Gunnar B. Gudmundsson Talks Astropia/Dorks & Damsels
If in an alternate universe, Edgar Wright had a brother living in Iceland making his own Spaced feature on the fanboy culture, then Astrópía (Dorks & Damsels) is at that film and Gunnar B. Gudmundsson is that brother (no they... More »
By Blake   
  

Interview with HOME SICK, POP SKULL director Adam Wingard
It's no secret we here at Twitch love up-and-coming director Adam Wingard's low-low-budget shocker Pop Skull. On the eve of the release of his freshman feature, Home Sick, in a feature-laden special edition courtesy of Synapse (the disc streets August... More »
  

Wright, Pegg and Hynes Talk SPACED!
Yet another entry in our stream of coverage from the San Diego Comic Con, this time in the form of a complete transcript of a group interview conducted with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes on the US... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Joss Whedon Speaks!
Yes, yes. Comic Con may be gone but our coverage continues rolling in as erstwhile camera man Joseph Perez continues digitizing and uploading the panels he attended at the orgy of geekery. And today? Possibly the biggest geek of... More »
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NIFFF 2008 - More with Jesus Franco
Jesus Franco is one of the most prolific filmmakers alive and one of the few that makes Miike look lazy by comparison, which is really saying something! At the 2008 NIFFF (Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival) in Switzerland I sat... More »
By Blake   
  

Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis—Interview With Curator Steve Seid
"It's surprising that pulp writer David Goodis never named a novel Cul-de-Sac," ponders Pacific Film Archives curator Steve Seid, "His stories conjure a dead end, littered with the wreckage of lonely losers and lowlifes. An ill fate befalls the typical... More »
  
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