Movie Interviews

Altman's Rx For Hollywood
The New York Post, October 8, 2000

The Last of the Gonzo Filmmakers
The New York Post, April 5, 2000

Howard's Beginnings -- Interview with Ron Howard
The New York Post, March 25, 1999

Samuel L. Jackson Shoots From The Hip--- Madison Magazine, Jul/Aug 2000
Edie Falco --- Daily Telegraph Magazine July 13, 2002
Ang Lee & James Schamus -- Talk Oscar Supplement 2001

Essays

Mastering the Seas -- Hollywood does justice to Patrick O'Brian's naval saga
The Weekly Standard, November 24, 2003

Scorsese's film portrays racist mass murderers as victims -- In seeking to turn Irish-American gang members into PC modern heroes, Gangs of New York glosses over the suffering of blacks, argues Jonathan Foreman
The Daily Telegraph, January 15, 2003

The Empire Strikes Back -- Victorian Virtues, Hollywood Vices (The Weekly Standard 10/14/02)

Both the new movie The Four Feathers and the reaction to it exemplify contemporary attitudes to Anglo-Saxon imperialism and the Victorians who practiced it. The film itself -- the sixth cinematic version of the A.E.W. Mason novel first published in 1902 -- is a failure as motion picture entertainment: visually stunning but dramatically weak and thematically confused. Its failure suggests that the British imperial epic is one epic that cannot be resuscitated as Gladiator did the sword-and-sandal flick...