Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter Richard Raddon, director of the IFP/West Los Angeles Film Festival, sits in his office on the 18th floor of a Miracle Mile skyscraper. Crammed into a modest, almost dormlike suite, the room is small, but the view is spectacular. It’s the kind of vista that......

Filmmaker Penelope Spheeris stands onstage amid the rococo splendor of Austin’s historic Paramount Theater. It’s opening weekend of the 2001 South by Southwest film festival, and Spheeris is introducing her brilliant new documentary, We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n’ Roll, about the monster rock tour Ozzfest, to a full......

Photo courtesy UCLA FTV Archives Over the course of her 20-year movie career, Doris Day made 39 pictures; none could be numbered among cinema’s greats, and a handful aren’t even much good. Hitchcock’s 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much boasts her best performance but is a lesser......

Orphaned as children, siblings Sammy and Terry (Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo) have gone their separate ways as adults: The younger, Terry, has drifted from state to state and job to job on a cloud of pot smoke, while Sammy, a former wild child, has remained in the family home,......

When we first see Joline (Heather Graham), the charmed heroine of writer-director Lisa Krueger’s Committed, she‘s in her wedding dress, improvising a prenuptial ritual with incense, photos and bells. It’s a makeshift devotion to the commitment she‘s about to make, and solemn though it is, she performs it with the......

Photo by Kathleen Clark"JESUS, I'M SORRY," SAYS FILM EDITOR DEDE ALLEN, striding into an office at Todd A-O studios, an hour late for her interview. It's a telling, if slightly startling, apology -- as the robust 76-year-old great-grandmother demonstrates over the course of a conversation, she has an ease with......

”I know nothing about silent films,“ says Charlie Lustman. ”I know nothing about theaters, nor do I know anything about renovating. So who am I? I’m the guy who sat on the beach smoking joints and writing songs on my guitar for the last 15 years.“ He‘s also the guy......

It’s late August, and filmmaker friends Allison Anders and Kurt Voss are planning a quick trip to San Francisco, one, says Anders, that will bring them ”full circle.“ ”That‘s right,“ Voss agrees, with a mischievous grin. ”I lost my virginity to Allison there in 1981.“ If the revelation isn’t quite......

Photo by Michael PowersINDIAN WRITER-DIRECTOR DEEPA MEHTA SITS AT A poolside table at the Hollywood Roosevelt, jet-lagged after flying into Hollywood from Australia the day before. Tired and maybe a little bored with the PR rounds, her enthusiasm for interviews seems at low ebb. "I'm not interested in doing films......