Errol Morris: The Hollywood Interview

Joyce McKinney, the focal point of Errol Morris' lens in Tabloid.ERROL MORRIS DIGS THE DIRT WITH TABLOIDBy Alex SimonWhen Errol Morris’ documentary The Thin Blue Line hit movie screens in 1988, it helped jump-start the rather tired genre back to life again. After a renaissance of the documentary film in the 1960s through the early ‘70s from the likes of The Maysles Brothers (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), D.A. Pennebaker (Don’t Look Back), and Robert...

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ERIC ROBERTS: The Hollywood Interview

(Eric Roberts in "Crash," above.)Rediscovering Roberts Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with. By Terry Keefe(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best...

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Tim Hetherington In His Own Words. Rest in Peace.

(Tim Hetherington, above, during the shooting of RESTREPO.)By Terry KeefeNews reports are stating that Tim Hetherington was tragically killed today in Libya. I interviewed Hetherington twice during the past year, along with Sebastian Junger, for Restrepo, the Oscar-nominated documentary they co-directed while embedded with an American platoon in Afghanistan.Together, Hetherington and Junger created what I believe to be the most important film of...

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LAUREN BACALL: The Hollywood Interview!

( Lauren Bacall and Woody Harrelson in The Walker.)LAUREN BACALL WALKS THE WALKBy Alex SimonLauren Bacall has been a screen icon since her 1944 debut in Howard Hawks’ To Have and Have Not, which also brought her together with her first husband, the equally iconic Humphrey Bogart, setting the stage for one of Hollywood’s great romances. Now an 83 years-young dynamo, Lauren Bacall was born Betty Jean Perske in New York City on September 16, 1924.A...

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