Tag: Jonathan Demme

2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Out of Comp, Midnight, Special Screenings & Cannes Premiere

The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16th until the 27th) begins exactly fifty days from now and from the one-hundred-plus feature...

JT + The Tennessee Kids | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review

Demme & Timberlake Don Suit & Tie In Masterful 20/20 Experience Concert Doc It’s been 32 years since Jonathan Demme immortalized David Byrne and the...

TIFF 2016: Jordan M. Smith’s Top Five Documentaries

In a blur of motion in the dark, another TIFF has already come and gone. Of the 296 features offered this year, I managed...

Criterion Collection: A Master Builder | Blu-ray Review

The third experimental cinematic endeavor from the writing/acting duo of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, A Master Builder, at last reaches a notable platform...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.