GC article roundup. 3.

Since this is the third monthly roundup of articles that have recently appeared at the main site, this can now officially be called a regular feature (and here are roundups 1 and 2).

Two interviews by David D'Arcy have appeared in the past few weeks, and his introductions are always as engaging as the conversations themselves. As Munich opened, David first considered the film and the critical reaction to it before talking with Avi Mograbi about his film, Avenge But One of My Two Eyes, making for an intriguing juxtaposition.

On a related note, by the way, Tony Kushner, quoted at length at the end of that piece, defends the screenplay he co-wrote with Eric Roth for Spielberg's feature in an interview with Peter von Becker of Der Tagesspiegel today; that's in German, of course, but signandsight has a crucial paragraph in English.

If you were wondering why David D'Arcy's Tirana dispatch was numbered "1" when a second never appeared, well, it did, actually. At the main site in the form of an interview with Fatmir Koçi, best known for his award-winning Tirana Year Zero.

Two of our longest pieces in a while come from Sean Axmaker and Jonathan Marlow. Both interviewees have been working for decades and, while neither is known first and foremost as a director, both have directed unconventional and, in their own ways, unforgettable science fiction features. Odd, isn't it. Sean talks with special effects pioneer Douglas Trumbell (Silent Running and Brainstorm), Jonathan with LQ Jones (A Boy & His Dog).

And two seasoned writers each contributed their first piece for us around the turn of the new year: Heather Johnson talks with Judy Irving and Mark Bittner, the director and subject, respectively, of The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill; and John Esther speaks with Emily Mortimer about her role in Woody Allen's Match Point.

Posted by dwhudson at January 18, 2006 1:38 PM