Alex Cox

To learn more about films about English Professors, I interviewed my friend Sean who is a college English Professor. Originally from Florida, now teaching in the middle of California, he skates, surfs, writes poetry and books, runs the indie Gorsky Press, and is a Thomas Pynchon scholar. We talk ab…

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is incredibly modest. From his first feature Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) to the popular Syndromes and a Century (2006) and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), his films and installations play around the world in art houses and museums with huge critica…

Longtime artist and filmmaker Jennifer Reeder is originally from Ohio and puts much of that midwest town essence into her characters and themes in art, installations and films. Now living and working in Chicago for decades, two of her most recent shorts take nuanced looks into teen life that are v…

My friends C and S, who used to be daily addicts, talk about films. For the drug-film genre, heroin movies often try to be the most realistic, whether glorifying or damning. C&S talk about what their day-to-day drug life was like, what they think of the films and characters, AIDS scares, art, n…