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Archive for July, 2007

INTERVIEW WITH JOHN MARINGOUIN

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

An engaging, articulate and very funny thirty-four-year-old with a boyish crew-cut, John Maringouin, the director of Running Stumbled, a twisted documentary about his troubled family, told Electric Sheep about the paradoxes of truth and reality, reminisced about his childhood hero Evil Knievel and explained why his film is really a stunt.
Interview by Virginie Sélavy

INTERVIEW WITH JASON WOOD: 100 ROAD MOVIES

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Mention the words ‘road movie’ and most people will think of Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda riding down the highway to the tune of Steppenwolf’s ‘Born to be Wild’. Easy Rider may remain the daddy of road movies but there is more to the genre than this, as the newly published 100 Road Movies amply demonstrates. We met up with author Jason Wood, a man whose knowledge of cinema is as phenomenal as his enthusiasm and rapid-fire delivery, to talk about his book.
Interview by Virginie Sélavy

JOHN WATERS: HAIRHOPPING TO HOLLYWOOD

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

He is known as the Pope of Trash, peddling movies which have shocked audiences and angered the censors since the 70s. But nothing John Waters ever committed to celluloid is as shocking as his decision to allow Cheaper by the Dozen 2 director Adam Shankman, to remake his cheerful hit Hairspray.
Feature by Lisa Williams