"You have actors who begin at a certain young age, and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later. And then there are those who show gradations of change in their acting, and…
FILM FESTIVAL EVENTS ARCHIVES
"I used to start out a show I did in a theater by saying, 'OK, y'all know my name's Billy Bob, so you probably think I married my cousin and screw goats.'" - Billy Bob Thornton displaying his sly wit in a Mr. Showbiz interview.
Most actors portray…
"Gabriel is a beautiful man. He epitomizes for me the Modern European Man: dynamic, a great potential for hard work, for fun, for introspection, and he's a wonderful father, actor and writer. He makes me sick." - Liam Neeson
The grace and…
Mr. Woods partial filmography: Northfork; Riding in Cars with Boys; Dirty Pictures; The Virgin Suicides; True Crime; Vampires; Contact; Hercules; Ghosts of Mississippi; Nixon; Casino; Citizen Cohn; The Hard Way; My Name Is Bill W.; True Believer;…
"I'd rather be in a movie that people say should have won than be in a movie that does, and then everybody says, Why did that win?" - Kevin Spacey.
It's rare that actors receive deserved recognition until they appear on the cover of a hundred…
Don't miss a captivating afternoon with the maverick star of Lord of the Rings, X-Men and Gods and Monsters! Cinequest invites you to join us for a very special event, A Conversation with Sir Ian McKellen. One of today's most inexhaustible…
Whether or not you like Spike Lee or have ever seen a Spike Lee film is irrelevant. You have an opinion of him as an individual and as a thinker. Over the course of Spike Lee's eclectic career, the media has created a persona of near mythic…
"One of the elementary lessons you learn when studying acting is that of mastering the senses. Listening, for example. Real listening requires effort, concentration, and focus. If one wants to act well, one needs to receive information free from…
This panel will feature filmmakers who have shot in all of the principal digital formats presently available--from digital high definition to DVCAM. The various clips shown will clearly outline that a three tier hierarchy is emerging that is…
We always hear about an actor leaving school to pursue a dream to be a star. Jennifer Beals made a tough and exceptional choice by evading the lures of Hollywood Celebrity and by choosing a determined path towards wisdom and completeness. Jennifer…
Of those very few individuals who have worked with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, and Count Basie, there is but one who has written more than 100 musical scores for film and television, garnering four Grammy…