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Will Poulter plays Carter in the new film Son of Rambow
Creative Loafing film critic Curt Holman interviews Garth Jennings, director and Nick Goldsmith, producer for the new film Son of Rambow.
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When Clouds Clear (Sun., April 13, 7:30pm; Wed., April 16, 5 p.m.), directors and Atlanta natives Danielle Bernstein and Anne Slick offer a beautifully shot portrait of Junin, a small town in the jungles of Ecuador, where the residents band together to resist local mining development. Bernstein and Slick take an in-their-own-words approach to the film, and Junin’s residents display immense dignity when they speak of preserving the land for future generations.
CL Staffer Allison Keene speaks with directors Danielle Bernstein and Anne Slick.
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten doesn’t look much like the usual rock-star documentary of the “Behind the Music” model. Director Julien Temple crafts something of an Irish wake for the Clash’s frontman, who justly called himself a “punk-rock warlord” and died in 2002 of a congenital heart defect.
In his later years, Strummer extolled the virtues of campfires as venues for fellowship and sharing ideas, so Temple films his present-day interviewees around open-air bonfires, as if we’re part of an impromptu gathering in honor of Strummer. Via old interviews and audio clips from his BBC World Service radio show, Strummer feels almost like an invisible presence at your elbow.
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David Lee Simmons interviews the director – Download.
Ray McKinnon and his filmmaking partners prove you can take the actors out of the South without taking the South out of the actors. That’s not always the case when the South’s native sons and daughters go Hollywood. Reese Witherspoon and Julia Roberts have deep Southern roots, but trafficked in grating Dixie caricatures in Sweet Home Alabama and Steel Magnolias, respectively.
Curt Holman speaks with Ray McKinnon Walton Goggins from the film Randy and the Mob – Download.
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Superbad contains, along with a big heart and a dirty tongue, the funniest running gag of the year. As if imitating an early 1980s sex comedy, two high school friends, Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera), seek to buy beer and hook up with comely classmates at a party. They rely on an even bigger geek (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) with a fake ID, but are aghast to see that the driver’s license gives their friend the one-word name “McLovin.”
The “McLovin” jokes never stop being funny, as characters wonder whether the name sounds more like an Irish R&B singer or a sexy cheeseburger. In Superbad’s secondary story, “McLovin” falls under the wing of a pair of cops (”Saturday Night Live’s” Bill Hader and Superbad co-writer Seth Rogen) who defy the image of policemen as upright citizens. When Creative Loafing recorded a podcast interview with four of Superbad’s stars, Hader suggested the “McLovin” arc wasn’t just a perfectly executed bit of comedy but a narrative journey parallel to director Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail. The Last Detail proves far more bittersweet than Superbad, but the similar plots take equal delight in chewing on profanity.
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Curt Holman speaks with the cast of Superbad – Download.
Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal and Tiago Moura / Photograph by Edward Adams
Hot Fuzz: Good cop, great cop
Shaun of the Dead filmmakers skewer the usual suspects
Listen as Curt Holman interviews the Hot Fuzz gang – Download [mp3].
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