Interviews, 10/10.

"John Ashbery, perhaps the most revered American poet living today, has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in poetry, and has collected numerous other laurels," write Greg Purcell and Fred Sasaki at Stop Smiling. "We asked him to talk a little about the movies he loves and has written about - both as a poet, less frequently as an essayist - over the years."

Michael Guillén has a few questions for Olivier Assayas about Boarding Gate - and another for Robert Redford, who's taken Lions for Lambs to Berkeley: "He genuinely wants to know if his critique of student apathy is accurate or not." Update: A good long talk with Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola.

At Movie City News, Ray Pride talks with Tony Kaye about Lake of Fire. Related: "[T]here's no way pro-choice activists can win the war of symbols," blogs David Edelstein.

Travis Nichols talks with Guy Maddin for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Related online listening: An entertaining 37 minutes with Maddin and Robert Davis.

In the City Pages, Peter S Scholtes profiles Michael Bodnarchek, who "co-founded A Band Apart Commercials in the summer of 1995 with celebrated director Quentin Tarantino and producer Lawrence Bender, but his specialty was TV ads, not motion pictures." Then, in 2003, he was out. His business is running fine, but it's been quite a ride.

Posted by dwhudson at October 10, 2007 9:25 AM