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Finally got around to adding some of my interview columns for Indiewire from way back in the day to my portfolio.

Written while I was also senior editor in 2002-3, subjects include writer-director-genius Claire Denis, Sundance Film Festival head Geoff Gilmore, film producer Ed Pressman, legendary film rep (and "Big Lebowski" inspiration) Jeff "The Dude" Dowd, film distribution pioneer Eamonn Bowles, MoMA senior film curator Larry Kardish, and director-producer Gary Winick.

If anything, it's a pretty telling comment on how much independent film has changed in the past 10 years.

Click here or on the title link above for the full story.

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The opening five minutes of I Am Cuba, Mikhail Kalatozov's 1964 masterpiece. Enjoy.

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I was lucky enough to spend over an hour with the master (and my biggest cinematic hero) for this Filmmaker Magazine cover story back in 2006. It's one of the last in-depth interviews Altman gave -- in his New York office, through a thick haze of ganja smoke -- before he died later that year.

Click the title link above for the full story.

Enjoy.