Filmmaking couple!
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Episode #108: Brad Kuhlman
Documentary filmmaker!
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Episode #107: Sky Bergman
Documentary Filmmaker!
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Episode #106: Paul Shoulberg
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Episode #075: Joseph Bottoms
Joseph Bottoms, right, as he appears in Yankee Tavern at Center Stage Theater.
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Episode #061: Lynn Cohen
Episode #059: Jonathan Crow
Artist, writer, etc. Jonathan Crow photographed in his Los Angeles, Ca home.
Artist of Veeptopus, who put octopuses on vice presidents’ heads, as well as filmmaker and writer!
Episode #020: Bruce Wagner
Novelist and screenwriter of David Cronenberg’s new film Maps to the Stars
(Photo by Ricardo DeAratanha from the LA Times)
Howdy folks, our last interview from our time at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival was with screenwriter Bruce Wagner, who was up in SB to talk after a screening of “Maps to the Stars,” the new David Cronenberg film.
Icy and disturbing (but also with a hilarious audacity), the film stars John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, and Robert Pattison in a story of troubled and famous families in Hollywood. And it all comes from a script Mr. Wagner wrote many years ago.
Bruce Wagner has written novels, directed films, and was responsible for the ABC series “Wild Palms,” but as you’ll hear, he calls this film the apotheosis of everything he’s done. The film comes out February 27, so ya better go check it. Here’s a trailer:
Topics discussed include:
Maps to the Stars festival path
Bruce’s relationship with David Cronenberg
How the movie is not a satire on Hollywood
Fire and water as symbols in the film
“My books are all about extremes.”
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Buddhism and the problem of fame
Amending Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes” quote
ISIS, pride and terrorism
How Cronenberg is a “writer’s dream”
What Cronenberg added to the script and the amazing casting
The history of the Paul Eluard poem used in the film
How writers can’t escape certain ideas through their career
The film has an unofficial website. (I could not find an official one.)
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Episode #019: Sara Joe Wolansky
Documentary filmmaker and food truck aficianado
USC Grad Sara Joe Wolansky brought her food truck documentary “Wheels: An American Dream” to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and that’s where I ran into her. As I’m a bit of a foodie, I checked out the film asap and then asked her to be on the podcast.
Here’s the trailer to the film:
Wheels: An American Dream Trailer from Sara Joe Wolansky on Vimeo.
Topics discussed include:
Have we reached peak Food Truck?
Are Food Trucks a “white people” thing?
Mariscos Jalisco
Wolanksy’s resume, including USC and Harvard
Finding subjects through Kickstarter
Farmer’s Belly
Her crew and how few you need to shoot
Favors are the currency at USC
Finding Lawrence Fama from Tapa Boy Truck
Why to never start a foodtruck in the fall
A critique of Chef and foodtruck reality vs. Hollywood
Stalking Roy Choi of Kogi Truck
Are food trucks a L.A. tradition?
Are there British food trucks?
What would Sara Joe’s food truck be like?
The food truck porn shoot
Films and trucks mentioned in passing:
Montage of Heck
The Queen of Versailles
Real Girl’s Kitchen
Vchos Truck
Cousins Maine Lobster
Steel City Sandwich
Flying Pig Cafe
Subscribers to the podcast now receive my weekly newsletter “Friday Document Dump” (guess when it comes out!) where I provide 10 links to things I found interesting this week, from essays to artist portfolios, videos and more. Look for it!!
If you can’t see the embedded podcast above, here are other ways to listen:
Listen to it on iTunes
Download this episode here
You can also follow me on Twitter
Or read my arts writing at http://www.tedmills.com
Or check out my art here (warning NSFW): http://tedmillsart.tumblr.com/
Subscribe to our show on iTunes. Please take a moment to like us on iTunes and rate us!!!
Or for non-iTunes people out there, subscribe to our RSS Feed
Lastly, our theme tune is brought to you by Raw Vegan.
Today’s podcast is brought to you by Restaurant Roy at 7 W. Carrillo St. in Santa Barbara. One of the few places where you can find fine and eclectic dining and cocktails until midnight every day! Tell Roy I sent ya!!
Episode #018: Andrew Napier
Documentary director and former Young Turk Andrew Napier
If you check out Andrew Napier’s IMDB page you’ll see that this director has done a lot of everything since following his filmmaking dreams from Wisconsin to Los Angeles. He’s written, acted, operated cameras, worked as a director of photography, and just pitched in where he could. He produced the Oscar-winning short film “Curfew,” directed by Shaun Christensen, and now delivers this insightful documentary, Mad as Hell, which observes the rise and rise of political junkie and talk show host Cenk Uygur as he goes from a right-wing college student to a left-wing MSNBC host.
The man himself: Cenk Uygur
The movie is released in theaters today, Feb. 6, and will be coming soon to DVD. Here’s the trailer.
You can also buy it on iTunes!
Topics discussed include:
A quick history of Cenk Uygur, the birth of online video and the YouTube revolution
Andrew Napier’s life in Mauston, Wisconsin
His first movie at 8 years old: “Sledge”
How documentary filmmaking is like solving a puzzle
Leaving UW Madison and coming to L.A.
Meeting Tarantino and P.A.’ing on Inglorious Basterds, and a few anecdotes about DiCaprio
Getting on the Young Turks and creating his own job position
How people not believing in you can sometimes be helpful
What he learned from working at MSNBC and corporate news
What happens when you criticize the system
The amount of footage Napier got to work with in the editing room
The infamous “shut up” footage
Cenk Uygur’s “three acts”
“Liberals can be douchebags too”
Sports and the history of the ball–Napier’s upcoming doc “Bounce”
How football mirrors Manifest Destiny
Want to become an expert? Make a documentary
What to expect in the Mad As Hell DVD release
Napier’s full plate, but how working on other films helps objectivity
Cenk Ugyer’s feedback on the film, and what he criticized
Andrew Napier is on Twitter and on Vimeo
Subscribers to the podcast now receive my weekly newsletter “Friday Document Dump” (guess when it comes out!) where I provide 10 links to things I found interesting this week, from essays to artist portfolios, videos and more. Look for it!!
If you can’t see the embedded podcast above, here are other ways to listen:
Listen to it on iTunes
Download this episode here
You can also follow me on Twitter
Or read my arts writing at http://www.tedmills.com
Or check out my art here (warning NSFW): http://tedmillsart.tumblr.com/
Subscribe to our show on iTunes. Please take a moment to like us on iTunes and rate us!!!
Or for non-iTunes people out there, subscribe to our RSS Feed
Lastly, our theme tune is brought to you by Raw Vegan.
Today’s podcast is brought to you by Restaurant Roy at 7 W. Carrillo St. in Santa Barbara. One of the few places where you can find fine and eclectic dining and cocktails until midnight every day! Tell Roy I sent ya!!