Category: Interview
Interview: Nick Barkla on Inside Fighter
Inside Fighter is the kind of uncontrived and intimate cinematic portrait – free of pretence or judgement – that acts as a reminder of the possibilities of the documentary form. For each and every second of the film’s relatively brief 51-minute running time, it is clear that first-time director Nick Barkla has entered into the…
Interviewing Philippe Mora: History and Hitler Deconstructed
At some point in the early 2000s, as a young cinephile burrowing into the nooks and crannies of Australian film culture, I came across the name Philippe Mora. At the time, like many others, I understood Philippe Mora to be a director of camp horror classics like The Beast Within (1982), The Marsupials: The Howling…
Interviewing Adam Wade: Storytelling, Schumer and Spicy Food
Storytelling comes naturally to Adam Wade, and it’s only natural that he’d use the stage—which has seen him win 20 Slams at The Moth (a New York-based nonprofit whose focus is the development and performance of stories)—to ply his trade. But he has also appeared on the small screen, including seasons two and three of…
Interviewing Honey Badger’s Randall: A Life Worth Narrating
These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone familiar with the Internet who hasn’t heard or uttered the phrase “Honey badger don’t care” or the more profane “Honey badger don’t give a s**t,” both of which have entered the lexicon via the immensely popular YouTube video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (2011). That short—featuring seemingly…
Interviewing Denis Lenoir, Director of Photography for ‘Still Alice’
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Still Alice is a heartbreaking and honest portrait of a woman struggling to maintain her identity as she copes with a rare disease. A huge part of the film’s resonance comes from the work of Denis Lenoir, the Director of Photography, who has been gracious enough to grant…