Vik Muniz’s Garbage-Art Transforms a Waste Land Into a Nominee & Award Winner by Brad Balfour Brazilian conceptualist Vik Muniz has been making remarkable photo-constructs and garnering accolades within the fine art world for years including such places as New York’s Guggenheim Museum. But recently the artist has landed squarely in the public eye so … Continue reading
Lee Unkrich A Dual Oscar Nominee, Toy Story 3‘s Director Muses on Childhood and the Future by Brad Balfour Now sitting before me is a big box – something like a Borg cube, but not one loaded up with malevolent androids wanting to absorb me into the collective. It is the box set of the … Continue reading
Nicole Kidman The Oscar-Winning Actress Explores Loss and Grief in Rabbit Hole by Brad Balfour Everyone experiences loss and grief, but few films show it in such a naked and matter-of-fact manner as does Rabbit Hole. The Aussie actress Nicole Kidman was so passionate about David Lindsay-Abaire’s original Pulitzer Prize-winning play that she signed on … Continue reading
Robert Duvall Takes the High Road to Get Low by Brad Balfour When Get Low hit the festival circuit earlier this year, veteran actor Robert Duvall came to town and did a few interview sessions to discuss this film, his career, and playing roles like the irascible Felix Bush. The grungy, ill-kempt Bush is this mysterious hermit … Continue reading
Colin Firth Oscar Nominee Refines The King’s Speech by Brad Balfour To the hardcore Jane Austen fans, 50-year-old English actor Colin Firth will always be Mr. Darcy after he appeared in a wet shirt in the BBC mini-series of Pride and Prejudice. But he really landed at the top of the hot lists with his 2009 … Continue reading
Jesse Eisenberg Creates a Zuckerberg Profile For The Social Network by Brad Balfour The hit film The Social Network may not have as profound an effect as the social network, Facebook, itself. But the cinematic version has lots of important things to say about the kind of people who make game-changing ideas into a reality and how … Continue reading
Michelle Williams Emotionally Exposed Actress Awarded a Blue Valentine and Various Nominations by Brad Balfour When we journalists came into the roundtable room at The Regency Hotel last month to interview the principals behind Blue Valentine, I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. Directed by Derek Cianfrance, it is the story of a two ordinary people, Dean and … Continue reading
Elias Koteas Lets Us In … On His Acting Technique by Brad Balfour What makes Canadian-born actor Elias Koteas so fascinating is that he doesn’t like to play it safe. In his latest film, the vampiric Let Me In, he plays the policeman who discovers the true nature of the mysterious 12-year-old killer Abby (Chloë Grace … Continue reading
Jude Law Tony or Not Tony, That is the Question by Brad Balfour With the Tony Awards taking place Sunday, June 13, 2010, the Broadway award season will be over – so nominee Jude Law spoke about his expectations and insights, both in his respective shows and in the season in general. This season has a few … Continue reading
Doc Director’s Powerful Burma VJ Gets an Oscar Nom by Brad Balfour When Danish documentarian Anders Østergaard took on the challenge to make Burma VJ, he had no idea how much he would advance the cause of citizen journalism. A collective of 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs), The Democratic Voice of Burma, recorded the 100,000+ protestors … Continue reading
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