What’s 85 years old and accepts submissions from me?!
Box Office Magazine! That’s what!
So exciting!
My first review for BoxOffice.com is up!
I’m extra grateful too because the editors there are so gracious and supportive. Amen, eh? It’s all about lovely editors!
Moons back (Fall? it’s all so hazy) I was set to edit the film section of the now MIA glossy mag RATTLE. An interview with Micha Peled about his film China Blue was slated to be the in the premier issue. It’s in that premier issue…somewhere. So it goes.
Cut to last week, I’m chatting with James Curcio and he’s telling me about how he’s planning to get a blog fired up. James wrote a novel called “Join my Cult” and his similarly named blog is swimming in stuff I like.
He liked my Micha Peled piece and here the Alterati saga begins.
Read my interview with Micha X. Peled on his doc China Blue.
My first piece for Film Arts Foundation’s Release Print is an interview with SF Filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson about her most recent film Strange Culture. The film is incredible and currently doing the festival circuit. It premiered at Sundance and will probably play SFIFF this year. It shouldn’t be missed!
See the interview on my portfolio here (PDF 7 MB). The article was a great experience to write! Laurie Koh at Film Arts did so much with me to flesh this out. I wanna work with her forever!
The first piece I ever wrote for publication was a compare and contrast essay on Vertigo and The Game. For an indie film journal titled “Intersection: A Book of Matches,” the piece matched the journal’s focus on quirky film comparisons and penchant for word play. The gallant Jonathan Marlow (of Greencine) spearheaded the publication with the lovely writer filmmaker Hannah Eaves and brought it to the indepedent magazine convention and all that.
The piece, called “Suicide, Blondes and San Francisco: The Game of Vertigo and the Vertigo of The Game played on the idea that Vertigo arouses and answers questions similarly asked and answered by The Game.
The writing style feels awkward to me - it is many years old after all. Mark has just put it in my portfolio. It makes me nostalgic. I’m sure Vertigo has that effect on everyone.