This month, I gave an interview to Sam Powers of the WashU Film Club. Alongside other initiatives at Washington University in St. Louis, like the student managed film society WU Cinema, the Club shows just how strong cinephilia is on our campus. They put out a monthly newsletter called Movie Monthly which contains features and…
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The Poetics of Serial Narratives: An Interview with Czech Film and Media Scholar Radomír D. Kokeš
This installment of Moving Patterns is a first: an interview with a scholar about their work. Depending on how this little venture is received, I may turn interviews into a semi-regular feature. How do serial narratives in film and TV work? What makes a serial narrative hang together? Franchises and shows as distinct as the…
7 on 007
A few weeks ago, I sat down for an interview with The Ampersand, Washington University’s online magazine devoted to goings-on in the College of Arts & Sciences. You can read the entire interview here. Here’s a nibble: What is your favorite James Bond movie, and why? This tends to shock people, but it isn’t a…
Yours Truly, Talking James Bond!
On November 6, 2015, I appeared on Rob Hakala’s Boston-based show, The South Shore Morning News, to discuss all things James Bond. You can listen to that broadcast here. We touch on my favorite Bond film, my least favorite, and the history of the James Bond franchise. Enjoy!
Who Was Roger Leenhardt? A Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Sidney Jézéquel
I am currently in Paris on a research trip , and today I had the pleasure of meeting the documentary filmmaker Sidney Jézéquel, formerly the head of Les Films Roger Leenhardt (or FRL Productions, as it is known today), an independent short film production company founded in 1934. Jézéquel made his final film in 2000,…
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