Chicago – The significant HollywoodChicago.com show business interviews of 2012 – eclectic, independent and varied – flowed throughout the year from the perspectives of Matt Fagerholm, Brian Tallerico and Patrick McDonald. All three contribute to this year-end survey of the 15 Best Interviews of 2012.
With so many promotional tours, conventions and shows coming through Chicago, the opportunity to get a wide range of celebrities, filmmakers and up-and-comers is one of the privileges of covering TV and film here. The following interviews – often enhanced with the photography of Joe Arce – were memorable for the timing or circumstance, and the shared give-and-take between HollywoodChicago.com and the representatives of the entertainment world.
Emily Hagins
Emily Hagins (center) directs the cast and crew of her third feature, My Sucky Teen Romance.
Photo credit: Cheesy Nuggets Productions
Interviewer: Matt Fagerholm
Background and Behind-the-Scenes: Some 18-year-olds only dream of becoming a filmmaker. By that age, Austin wunderkind Emily Hagins...
With so many promotional tours, conventions and shows coming through Chicago, the opportunity to get a wide range of celebrities, filmmakers and up-and-comers is one of the privileges of covering TV and film here. The following interviews – often enhanced with the photography of Joe Arce – were memorable for the timing or circumstance, and the shared give-and-take between HollywoodChicago.com and the representatives of the entertainment world.
Emily Hagins
Emily Hagins (center) directs the cast and crew of her third feature, My Sucky Teen Romance.
Photo credit: Cheesy Nuggets Productions
Interviewer: Matt Fagerholm
Background and Behind-the-Scenes: Some 18-year-olds only dream of becoming a filmmaker. By that age, Austin wunderkind Emily Hagins...
- 1/4/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Basket Case: The Trilogy
It's apt that Basket Case hits Blu-ray the same week as Et, the other 1982 movie about a young man and his relationship with a rubbery creature. Director Frank Henenlotter's take on things is less wholesome than Spielberg's: far seedier and gorier but, oddly, just as moving.
A shy young man, Duane, comes to the rotten core of the Big Apple with a dream of revenge on the "doctors" who separated him from his conjoined twin, the grossly deformed and incredibly violent Belial, whom he carries around in a basket. Costing around $30,000, and shot in a flophouse motel, with many of the residents performing in the movie, this is the real deal as far as exploitation film-making goes. It has edges so rough you could injure yourself on them, the acting barely deserves the name, but the idea is so novel and the story so...
It's apt that Basket Case hits Blu-ray the same week as Et, the other 1982 movie about a young man and his relationship with a rubbery creature. Director Frank Henenlotter's take on things is less wholesome than Spielberg's: far seedier and gorier but, oddly, just as moving.
A shy young man, Duane, comes to the rotten core of the Big Apple with a dream of revenge on the "doctors" who separated him from his conjoined twin, the grossly deformed and incredibly violent Belial, whom he carries around in a basket. Costing around $30,000, and shot in a flophouse motel, with many of the residents performing in the movie, this is the real deal as far as exploitation film-making goes. It has edges so rough you could injure yourself on them, the acting barely deserves the name, but the idea is so novel and the story so...
- 10/19/2012
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – If director Benh Zeitlin had written a list of the most outlandishly formidable challenges that a film crew could ever possibly face, he could’ve easily come up with an outline for “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Loosely based on Lucy Alibar’s play, “Juicy and Delicious,” the film pays tribute to the indomitable spirit of New Orleans citizens as they continue to defy the odds.
It’s that same spirit that appears to have fueled this tremendously ambitious picture, the first feature made by the self-dubbed, “Independent Filmmaking Army” known as “Court 13.” Set in a tight-knit southern village known as the Bathtub, the tale is viewed through the eyes of a strong-willed six-year-old, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis). As her father, Wink (Dwight Henry), grows weak with illness, environmental catastrophes flood the village while unleashing an assortment of fearsome prehistoric creatures. Thus, Hushpuppy embarks on a journey of survival that...
It’s that same spirit that appears to have fueled this tremendously ambitious picture, the first feature made by the self-dubbed, “Independent Filmmaking Army” known as “Court 13.” Set in a tight-knit southern village known as the Bathtub, the tale is viewed through the eyes of a strong-willed six-year-old, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis). As her father, Wink (Dwight Henry), grows weak with illness, environmental catastrophes flood the village while unleashing an assortment of fearsome prehistoric creatures. Thus, Hushpuppy embarks on a journey of survival that...
- 7/4/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Wink (Dwight Henry) and Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané “Nazie” Wallis) don’t have a typical father-daughter relationship in Benh Zeitlin’s visionary fantasy, “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” With his body ailing and his hometown underwater, Wink resorts to tough-love parenting skills in order to teach his daughter self-sufficiency. That includes catching her own food while chanting phrases like, “I’m the man!”
The bond between Wink and Hushpuppy forms the heart of Zeitlin’s film, which won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize, and went on to snag the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Neither Henry nor Wallis had acted in a film prior to “Beasts,” and have been on a whirlwind festival tour ever since, acquiring widespread acclaim for their work. Zeitlin’s tale of an environmental crisis that unleashes prehistoric creatures known as “aurochs,” while threatening to tear Wink and Hushpuppy from their homeland,...
The bond between Wink and Hushpuppy forms the heart of Zeitlin’s film, which won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize, and went on to snag the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Neither Henry nor Wallis had acted in a film prior to “Beasts,” and have been on a whirlwind festival tour ever since, acquiring widespread acclaim for their work. Zeitlin’s tale of an environmental crisis that unleashes prehistoric creatures known as “aurochs,” while threatening to tear Wink and Hushpuppy from their homeland,...
- 7/2/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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