Note: This interview originally ran during the 2014 Hamptons Film Festival. Iris is now playing in select theaters! The great documentarian Albert Maysles’ latest film Iris is about fashion- and interior-design maven Iris Apfel, now 93 years old, as she celebrates the late wave of popularity she enjoyed on the heels the Met’s 2006 exhibition […]
Q&A: Volker Schlöndorff on the Tense Negotiations of ‘Diplomacy’
October 1, 2014 by
Towards the end of World War II, General Dietrick von Choltitz, the governor of Nazi-occupied Paris, receives an order to destroy the city if the Nazis lose it to Allied forces. With explosives strapped to bridges and landmarks, the General is prepared to carry out this atrocity when Swedish Consul General Raoul Nordling appears in […]
HIFF 2014 Views From Long Island Announced; Bob Balaban Named Honorary Chairman
August 26, 2014 by
The end of summer is always bittersweet. While we’re sad to see those long, lazy beach days disappear, the silver lining is that HIFF is suddenly right around the corner: October 9-13. Today we are pleased to announce our selections for the Views from Long Island section, which focuses on local films and filmmakers with geographic […]
Q&A: Director Michael Walker on ‘The Maid’s Room’
July 29, 2014 by
Note: This interview ran as part of our coverage of the 2013 Hamptons International Film Festival. The film, which won the Views From Long Island competition at HIFF 2013, will open in theaters and debut on VOD on August 8, 2014. In The Maid’s Room, Drina, a young immigrant from Colombia, is hired by the Crawford […]
Q&A: Director Eric Steel on ‘Kiss the Water’
September 21, 2013 by
For decades, on the edge of the Scottish coast, the enigmatic Megan Boyd learned and perfected the obscure craft of fly-making for fishermen. She twirled bits of feather, fur, silver, and gold into elaborate fishing flies, at once miniature works of art and absolutely lethal. Hailed as some of the best flies ever made, they […]
