Monthly Archives: April, 2012

Interview: Greta Gerwig, Star of Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress

Written by Locke Peterseim on April 12, 2012 — Leave a Comment

When writer-director Whit Stillman’s smart, wry Metropolitan appeared in 1990 it heralded the arrival of a fresh, new cinematic voice. Stillman continued to mine his favorite topic–the comedic hand-wringing and navel-gazing angst of the “urban haute bourgeoisie“–in Barcelona (1994) and The Last Days of Disco (1998). But then the film maker dropped off the indie-cinema [...]

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Interview: Jeff Who Live At Home‘s Co-writer-director Jay Duplass

Written by Locke Peterseim on April 5, 2012 — 1 Comment

I was late to the Mumblecore bandwagon (or conversely the “anti-Mumblecore” counter-bandwagon), so I hadn’t seen a Duplass Brothers film until 2010’s oddly sweet Cyrus completely snuck up on me and on repeated viewings become one of my favorite films of the year. Cyrus, which stars John C. Reilly as a lovable loser falling for [...]

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