By Gregory Crofton Sundance-Grand-Jury-Prize-winning documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner likes to point her camera at anti-establishment thinkers who try to create their own worlds. Think Anton Newcombe of BrianJonestown Massacre, featured in her rock documentary DIG! (2004), and Internet guru Josh…
The Cult Interviewed on a Rooftop in 1985
One of the first televised interviews with The Cult, just as they were about to break into the charts with one of their biggest hits, She Sells Sanctuary. The TV show was London Calling.
BBC’s Jeremy Paxman vs. Russell Brand
Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman talks to Russell Brand about voting, revolution and beards, as he launches his guest edit for the New Statesman.
‘THE LOVERS & THE DESPOT’: North Korean Dictator Loved Movies So Much He Kidnapped His Star and Director
By Barry Rubinow It’s become a cliché to say that wild and crazy news stories, although true, would be rejected by the movie studios as too preposterous, if they were pitched as a script. In the remarkable new documentary THE…
Richard Pryor High on the Set of ‘STIR CRAZY’
In 1980, while filming “Stir Crazy” on location in Arizona, Richard Pryor agreed to sit for an interview with a Mormon high school public access cable television show. The interview took place at 7am, before shooting began for the day.…
Aldous Huxley on Technodictators
“If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled” — Aldous Huxley Interview by Mike Wallace on May 18, 1958, from the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin…