INTERVIEW: Disconnect’s Henry Alex Rubin on authenticity, documentaries and Jason Bateman
“You can easily pitch this movie badly and have people roll their eyes and say, ‘I don’t want to watch a movie about technology and how it’s bad,’” said director Henry Alex Rubin over lunch at the Eliot Hotel in Boston. The film Disconnect, starring Jason Bateman and Alexander Skarsgård, is the first leap into [...]
INTERVIEW: Spring Breakers’ Harmony Korine and Ashley Benson
Wild teenagers, an abundance of alcohol and sun-kissed screenshots dance across controversial director/screenwriter Harmony Korine’s latest film Spring Breakers. Four college girls, Brit, Candy, Faith and Cotty are fed up with their boring college lives and want to do something different. What better chance than Spring Break? Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson and former Disney stars [...]
Boston-based chef Ming Tsai on latest project Blue Dragon
Ming Tsai has a lot of friends, but he doesn’t know all of them. In the crowded dining room of his new “Asian-fusion gastropub,” Tsai leans back in his chair at the chef’s table, sifts through piles of paperwork with a crumpled brow, checks his ornate silver watch and asks about The Daily Free Press’s [...]
Improvised Aristophanes: BU Classics’ modern rendition of the ancient
“To offer you ‘greetings,’ fellow demesmen, is now old-fashioned and worn out; but I do say, ‘Wazzup!’ for turning up here so eagerly, so painstakingly, and so energetically, back me up now, in the work that lies ahead.” Wazzup? Demesmen? This kind of juxtaposition might sound all Greek to you — probably because it is. [...]
INTERVIEW: Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes and the genius of Derek Cianfrance
It is strange to be in the same room as Ryan Gosling, but indeed much stranger to find the man sitting next to Gosling far more interesting. Derek Cianfrance, widely recognized, but only recently, for his neorealistic filmmaking in the acclaimed Blue Valentine, sat in our interview eager to prove the triumph of method [...]
