Thu, 29 October 2009
Colin Marshall talks to Pepita Ferrari, director of Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary. The first documentary film to concentrate specifically on documentary filmmaking, Capturing Reality features conversations with the likes of Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Nick Broomfield, Albert Maysles, Scott Hicks and Molly Dineen about such important issues in the genre as interviewing, editing, the line between fact and fiction, the evolutionary possibilities of individual projects and the effect of a filmmaker's presence.
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Thu, 22 October 2009
Colin Marshall talks to The Philadelphia Lawyer, author of both the web site of the same name and the book The Happy Hour is For Amateurs: A Lost Decade in the World’s Worst Profession,
which is now out in paperback. Combining Kafka-like tales of the
gamesmanship and pedantry of the legal profession with vivid accounts
of the intense debauchery required to counterbalance all that wasted
time in the office, The Philadelphia Lawyer’s web presence has
attracted a large, devoted audience of disaffected litigators,
suspicious law students and dedicated bacchanalists alike. His book
brings the distinctive sensibility of his much-e-mailed stories into
long-form narrative.
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Thu, 15 October 2009
Colin Marshall talks to Laurie Brown and Andy Sheppard, host and producer, respectively, of The Signal on CBC Radio 2. Since debuting in March of 2007, the program has evolved to provide a highly distinctive listening experience that offers two skillfully-curated hours of late-night contemporary music to listeners across Canada — and, via the internet, the world — that’s neither predictable nor easily genrefiable. Brown accompanies Sheppard’s unusual sonic selections with commentary that’s long impressed fans with its friendliness, intimacy and wealth of odd stories.
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Fri, 9 October 2009
Colin Marshall talks to Peter Bagge, the comic artist behind the beloved series Hate as well as Apocalypse Nerd, Neat Stuff and Sweatshop. His new book, Everybody is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations, collects his stories originally written for the libertarian magazine Reason, works of comic journalism on such subjects as the Iraq war, gun control, the “War on Drugs” and Amtrak.
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Fri, 2 October 2009
Colin Marshall talks to So Yong Kim, director of In Between Days, winner of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize for Independent Vision, and more recently Treeless Mountain,
which is now available on DVD. The story of two very young sisters in
Seoul left with their distant aunt while their mother searches for
their absent father, the film belongs solidly to the realist tradition
while evoking the scale, perspective and feel of childhood. The New
York Times‘ A.O. Scott calls Treeless Mountain one of the “vital, urgent and timely” vanguard members of the new genre of “neo-neorealism.”
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