Interviews, 7/5.

"[W]ith Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's sparkling documentary Chris & Don: A Love Story arriving in theaters just as same-sex marriage arrives in California, it seems a most auspicious moment to speak to the surviving member of one of the best-known unofficial same-sex marriages of modern times," writes David Ehrenstein, introducing his interview with Don Bachardy.

Also in the LA Weekly, Steven Mikulan talks with John Waters: "Like many people with an eye to the near future, Waters questions the timing of California's gay-marriage love fest. 'I wished it had happened after we got a Democratic president in.... We've got to learn to stop giving Republicans red-meat issues before an election.'"

And Nick Moore meets Steve Erickson: "I had read his latest novel, Zeroville, in one sitting, only putting it down to sob and hallucinate. When I tell him this, he locks eyes with me, leans back, and with a voice somewhat reminiscent of the cartoon tortoise who reduces Bugs Bunny to tears, says, 'Yup.'"

Adam Ross's interviewee this week: Karina Longworth.

For the Telegraph, Marianne Macdonald meets Juliette Binoche: "She made five films last year and is at the tail end of four months of dance rehearsals with the choreographer Akram Khan, known for his work with Kylie Minogue and the ballerina Sylvie Guillem. At the same time Binoche has been painting a series of portraits of herself in her different film roles. Both the dance piece and her artworks will be shown this autumn, as part of Ju'bi Lation, a season of events at the National Theatre and the British Film Institute dedicated to her.... his interview is to promote yet another project: her new film, Summer Hours."

"It's not hard to warm to Jaime Winstone," James Mottram informs us in the Independent. "One minute, she's pumping my hand, calling me 'babe' and greeting me in her Cockney songbird voice, the next, she's dashing out for a 'moment of toilet,' as she gleefully calls it. As down-to-earth as her actor-father, Ray, she's not one to put on heirs and graces. When I bump into her later in the evening at the Edinburgh Film Festival party for her latest movie Donkey Punch, she has her boyfriend Alfie Allen (brother to singer Lily) in tow."

Andrew Pulver talks with Bernard Rose about The Kreutzer Sonata, a follow-up of sorts to Ivans xtc in that it's also based on a Tolstoy story, also stars Danny Huston and also cost relatively little to realize. More on the film from Tim Hayes at cinemattraction. Also in the Guardian: John Patterson talks with Jeff Garlin.

For Stop Smiling, Chris Ross has seven questions for Amy Sedaris.

Posted by dwhudson at July 5, 2008 12:59 PM