Like most artists, Rosanne Cash has been stuck in her home for the bulk of the past year. But unlike some singer-songwriters who feel creatively paralyzed by the moment, Cash has been able to process what’s happened throughout 2020 — a deadly pandemic, an uprising for black lives, a looming election — into art.
“My tour was cancelled, and I was off the road, sequestered in my own home, with time, a stack of writing journals, and a recording studio in the basement,” Cash says. “The only thing to do was write songs.
“My tour was cancelled, and I was off the road, sequestered in my own home, with time, a stack of writing journals, and a recording studio in the basement,” Cash says. “The only thing to do was write songs.
- 10/20/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Chinonye Chukwu‘s “Clemency” kicked off its Oscar campaign with a Grand Jury prize win at the Sundance Film Festival. Since then, the Neon release has had strong showings at the Independent Spirits and Gotham Awards. Gold Derby recently conducted video interviews with stars Alfre Woodard and Aldis Hodge, cinematographer Eric Bronco, film editor Phyllis Housen and composer Kathryn Bostic. Scroll down and click on any name below to be taken to their full chat.
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Woodard has earned Best Actress bids at the Independent Spirits and Gothams for playing Bernadine Williams, a prison warden whose psyche has been scarred by years of carrying out death row executions. She describes her character as someone who “is exacting. She has to be a person who is able to control her actions as well as her emotions. She is a person who understands the importance of protocol,...
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Woodard has earned Best Actress bids at the Independent Spirits and Gothams for playing Bernadine Williams, a prison warden whose psyche has been scarred by years of carrying out death row executions. She describes her character as someone who “is exacting. She has to be a person who is able to control her actions as well as her emotions. She is a person who understands the importance of protocol,...
- 12/26/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Film editor Phyllis Housen admits, “I did not know that much about the prison industrial complex” before working on “Clemency.” But while the film is ostensibly about the death penalty, it’s really “this internal story” about “the implosion of [a woman’s] world based on what she did for a living.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Housen below.
See Alfre Woodard Interview: ‘Clemency’
That woman is Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard), a prison warden worn down by years of administering death row executions. Things come to a head for her when inmate Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge) desperately fights for his life before his own sentence is carried out.
Writer and director Chinonye Chukwu spent years researching capital punishment before shooting the movie, so she “had a very clear vision of what she wanted,” Housen explains, “which is rare.” In editing a movie, “you put it together according to the script, you build the bricks of the scenes,...
See Alfre Woodard Interview: ‘Clemency’
That woman is Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard), a prison warden worn down by years of administering death row executions. Things come to a head for her when inmate Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge) desperately fights for his life before his own sentence is carried out.
Writer and director Chinonye Chukwu spent years researching capital punishment before shooting the movie, so she “had a very clear vision of what she wanted,” Housen explains, “which is rare.” In editing a movie, “you put it together according to the script, you build the bricks of the scenes,...
- 11/29/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
From her early career as an assistant editor on “Kill Bill” to her work on a number of intimate dramas, editor Phyllis Housen boasts a varied slate of experience. This year, Housen comes to Sundance with “Clemency,” Chinonye Chukwu’s piercing character study of a warden tasked with carrying out executions in a maximum security prison. Premiering in the U.S. competition, the film stars Alfre Woodard as Bernadine Williams, whose grim job begins to take a psychological toll after she forms an unusual bond with a death row inmate.
How did you begin your collaboration with Chinonye Chukwu on this film?
First of all, I was very happy to work with a female director on “Clemency,” and she had a real sense of what she wanted, which was excellent. My process is I come on a film first or second day of principal photography, and I basically follow the...
How did you begin your collaboration with Chinonye Chukwu on this film?
First of all, I was very happy to work with a female director on “Clemency,” and she had a real sense of what she wanted, which was excellent. My process is I come on a film first or second day of principal photography, and I basically follow the...
- 1/30/2019
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
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