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Four members of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle LeAnne Lindsay (me), Dan Tabor, Stephen Silver & Rich Heimlich, got the opportunity to sit down with
Rian Johnson in Philly, the morning before GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY screened at the 31st Annual Philadelphia Film Festival.
His interview is part of our Film Scribes Podcast. Of course you never have enough time to ask all the questions you have prepared, but I was glad to fit in a little aside about how much I admire his wife, Karina Longworth‘s Podcast “You Must Remember This” a deep dive into old Hollywood. And whether or not their home is haunted.
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5 Questions for Filmmakers Joe Kramer
& Christian Sarkis Graham – HIGHER GROUNDS
Shot on location in Philadelphia, HIGHER GROUNDS is an extraterrestrial short-form comedy that takes an orbital view of life on Earth. Philly director Joe Kramer offers all of the Larry David-inspired humor in retro sci-fi packaging...
5 Questions for FIRSTGLANCE INDIE FILMMAKERS 2023
The 26th Annual FirstGlance Film Festival in Philadelphia October 5-8 2023 will take place at PFS Bourse 400 Ranstead St Philadelphia PA. Check out these 5 Questions for Indie Filmmakers videos...
5 Questions for Filmmakers Alexis Neophytides and Andres “Jay” Molina – FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS
But instead of history repeating itself on this tiny island with a dark history of institutional neglect and abandonment, Fire Through Dry Grass shows these disabled Black and Brown artists refusing to be abused, confined, erased.
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Philly Unnamed Film Festival -Sept 27- Oct 1, 2023 #PUFF8 – SWEET RELIEF & SPIRAL TO THE CENTER (featured)
PUFF was founded as an alternative festival to bring new and undiscovered films to cinema fans in Philadelphia. The festival has previously featured such notable films as Terrifier, Tragedy Girls, Witch in the Window, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms ...
5 Questions for LeAnn Erickson – I (HEART)
JACK LALANNE: A CARTOON MEMOIR (PFF31)
Orig Post: 9/16/22 - I (heart) Jack Lalanne: A Cartoon Memoir uses animation and a memoir structure to weave a comedic and dramatic coming out story. Employing a playful visual aesthetic and humorous tone, the film tackles serious issues, including coming out as gay in a less tolerant era...
FILM SCRIBES PODCAST
As a member of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, I join in on our monthly Podcast, FILM SCRIBES. I really should do it more often cause it's fun hashing out our opinions of recent flicks!
Concrete Cowboy w/ Ricky Staub, Caleb McLaughlin Interview
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview CONCRETE COWBOY The film starts in Detroit where Cole (McLaughlin) has gotten in trouble for fighting in school once again. His mother picks him up with his bags packed (trash bags that is) and tells him she's driving him to his father in Philadelphia. Caleb, 15 years-old, has not maintained a relationship with his father Harp (Idris Elba) over the 10 years since his mother up…
Interview with Actor/Entrepreneur NAKIA DILLARD (Black Lightning, The Wire, House of Cards) And Now The Wonder Years
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor – ORIGINALLY POSTED APRIL 26, 2020 I got a chance to finally interview actor, writer, director, and entrepreneur, Nakia Dillard, a Philly native, who I met so many years ago, I dare not say how many or it will age us both, but he was part of an outreach program called the Rainbow Company which performed original musical productions in Philly schools, run by American…
BOOK VS MOVIE: The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript – Video Interview with Mark L. Levine
11 days after the controversial Chicago 7 trial ended, Levine and friends were able to get the trial transcripts into bookstores. The materials -- edited for brevity, insight and entertainment, became a best seller at the time, but eventually went out of print. In 2020 Aaron Sorkin and Steven Spielberg‘s Dream Works Pictures made the story of the trial into an Academy Award nominated Netflix film. Contemporaneously with the release of…
Philly Unnamed Film Festival -Sept 27- Oct 1, 2023 #PUFF8 – SWEET RELIEF & SPIRAL TO THE CENTER (featured)
PUFF was founded as an alternative festival to bring new and undiscovered films to cinema fans in Philadelphia. The festival has previously featured such notable films as Terrifier, Tragedy Girls, Witch in the Window, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms ...
5 Questions for LeAnn Erickson – I (HEART)
JACK LALANNE: A CARTOON MEMOIR (PFF31)
Orig Post: 9/16/22 - I (heart) Jack Lalanne: A Cartoon Memoir uses animation and a memoir structure to weave a comedic and dramatic coming out story. Employing a playful visual aesthetic and humorous tone, the film tackles serious issues, including coming out as gay in a less tolerant era...
FILM SCRIBES PODCAST
As a member of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, I join in on our monthly Podcast, FILM SCRIBES. I really should do it more often cause it's fun hashing out our opinions of recent flicks!
Concrete Cowboy w/ Ricky Staub, Caleb McLaughlin Interview
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview CONCRETE COWBOY The film starts in Detroit where Cole (McLaughlin) has gotten in trouble for fighting in school once again. His mother picks him up with his bags packed (trash bags that is) and tells him she's driving him to his father in Philadelphia. Caleb, 15 years-old, has not maintained a relationship with his father Harp (Idris Elba) over the 10 years since his mother up…
Interview with Actor/Entrepreneur NAKIA DILLARD (Black Lightning, The Wire, House of Cards) And Now The Wonder Years
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor – ORIGINALLY POSTED APRIL 26, 2020 I got a chance to finally interview actor, writer, director, and entrepreneur, Nakia Dillard, a Philly native, who I met so many years ago, I dare not say how many or it will age us both, but he was part of an outreach program called the Rainbow Company which performed original musical productions in Philly schools, run by American…
BOOK VS MOVIE: The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript – Video Interview with Mark L. Levine
11 days after the controversial Chicago 7 trial ended, Levine and friends were able to get the trial transcripts into bookstores. The materials -- edited for brevity, insight and entertainment, became a best seller at the time, but eventually went out of print. In 2020 Aaron Sorkin and Steven Spielberg‘s Dream Works Pictures made the story of the trial into an Academy Award nominated Netflix film. Contemporaneously with the release of…