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Jane Samborski and Dash Shaw

Jane Samborski and Dash Shaw

Interviews

Animation director Jane Samborski and writer and director Dash Shaw join Lily and Generoso Fierro for a conversation about their latest film, Cryptozoo. The winner of the NEXT Innovator Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Cryptozoo is a dazzling animated feature that examines big questions about good intentions and conservation. The film opens up in theaters and for streaming on August 20th.

Liberté

Liberté

Screen Reviews

Generoso Fierro reviews Albert Serra’s new transgressive feature Liberté, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

Sparks

Sparks

Music Reviews

A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (BMG). Review by Generoso Fierro.

Ivana Mladenovic

Ivana Mladenovic

Interviews

One of the most compelling films screening at this year’s AFI Fest is the second feature by Serbian director Ivana Mladenovic; Ivana the Terrible. The award-winning filmmaker spoke with Lily and Generoso Fierro at AFI Fest 2019 about weaving fiction into her own reality.

Eli “Paperboy” Reed

Eli “Paperboy” Reed

Interviews

With the upcoming release of his eagerly awaited new album, 99 Cent Dreams, soul singer Eli “Paperboy” Reed speaks in depth about his songwriting process and working with the legendary vocal group, The Masqueraders, and Grammy winning producer, Matt Ross-Spang, with Generoso Fierro.

Babylon

Babylon

Screen Reviews

Generoso Fierro reviews Italian-English director Franco Rosso’s uncompromised masterpiece about racial tensions in late 70s London, Babylon, which arrives to US theaters for the first time on March 8th.

Tarik Aktaş

Tarik Aktaş

Interviews

Dead Horse Nebula director, Tarik Aktaş, speaks with Generoso Fierro about his AFI Fest 2018-selected debut feature.

Jonas Carpignano

Jonas Carpignano

Interviews

Director Jonas Carpignano discusses his latest feature, A Ciambra, at length with Lily and Generoso Fierro. The follow up to Carpignano’s debut, Mediterranea, and executively produced by Martin Scorsese, A Ciambra is the affecting second film of a planned triptych centered on the people of the port town of Gioia Tauro in Calabria.

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Interviews

Generoso Fierro speaks with director Andrey Zvyagintsev of Loveless, the winner of the 2017 Jury Prize at Cannes.

AFI Fest 2017

AFI Fest 2017

Event Reviews

AFI Fest 2017 just wrapped up in Hollywood. Lily and Generoso Fierro review the 22 new feature films that they selected from this year’s eclectic festival program.

From Montenegro to Moldova: The Best of SEEFest 2017

From Montenegro to Moldova: The Best of SEEFest 2017

Event Reviews

For the twelfth year, the South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) in Los Angeles showcased an impressive lineup of new features and shorts. Lily and Generoso Fierro provide a festival wrap up and their picks for the films that you cannot miss.

Kivanç Sezer

Kivanç Sezer

Interviews

Turkish director Kivanç Sezer’s powerful debut feature, My Father’s Wings, puts the spotlight on the workplace safety crisis that is currently taking place in his homeland. Lily and Generoso Fierro spoke with Sezer at SEEFest 2017 about his film and his need to draw attention to this issue.

Anca Miruna Lǎzǎrescu

Anca Miruna Lǎzǎrescu

Interviews

That Trip We Took With Dad is the debut feature by acclaimed Romanian short film director Anca Miruna Lǎzǎrescu. Generoso Fierro sat down with Lǎzǎrescu during SEEFest to discuss the comedy and drama within the adaptation of her deeply personal family story for the screen.

Dash Shaw

Dash Shaw

Interviews

Dash Shaw has been one of the most innovation cartoonists of the last decade. His new animated film, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, voiced by Reggie Watts, Lena Dunham, and Jason Schwartzman, was illustrated by hand over a six year period. Lily and Generoso Fierro sat down with Shaw at AFI Fest for an interview.

Sarah Adina Smith

Sarah Adina Smith

Interviews

One of the biggest surprises of this year’s AFI Fest came with Buster’s Mal Heart, the impressive second feature by director Sarah Adina Smith that stars Rami Malek, Kate Lyn Sheil, and DJ Qualls. Generoso Fierro spoke at length with Smith about the film, its Y2K era setting, and the race and class discussions contained within.

Juho Kuosmanen and J.P. Passi

Juho Kuosmanen and J.P. Passi

Interviews

Lily and Generoso Fierro were fortunate enough to speak with director Juho Kuosmanen and cinematographer J.P. Passi after the debut of their sweet and poignant new film, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, the true story of the famed Finnish boxer and his shot at becoming the 1962 World Featherweight Boxing Champion.

AFI Fest 2016

AFI Fest 2016

Event Reviews

From November 10th to the 17th, the American Film Institute Festival celebrated its thirtieth year of connecting audiences with world-renowned directors and actors by presenting new works and classic films. Lily and Generoso Fierro take you through the many special events, conversations, and most importantly, the reviews of twenty new feature films that premiered at this year’s festival in Hollywood.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Interviews

Apichatpong Weerasethakul speaks with Lily and Generoso Fierro at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Prince Buster, RIP

Prince Buster, RIP

Features

Prince Buster , the legendary soundmaker, has died. Generoso Fierro recounts his monumental life and career.

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Dark Water

Dark Water

Screen Reviews

J-Horror classic Dark Water (2002) makes the skin crawl with an unease that lasts long after the film is over. Phil Bailey reviews the new Arrow Video release.

The Shootist

The Shootist

Screen Reviews

John Wayne’s final movie sees the cowboy actor go out on a high note, in The Shootist, one of his best performances.