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The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Exclusive Interview with Actors Vincent D’Onofrio and Cherry Jones, Director Michael Showalter and Writer Abe Sylvia
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Exclusive Interview with Actors Vincent D’Onofrio and Cherry Jones, Director Michael Showalter and Writer Abe Sylvia

Television personalities have long been subject to criticism by the American public, but not many people know the true  identities of such easily recognizable celebrities as the late televangelist-singer, Tamara Faye Bakker, who rose to fame in the mid-1960s. After watching the acclaimed 2000 documentary, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, actress Jessica Chastain decided to…

Karen Benardello
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Toronto International Film Festival : All My Puny Sorrows / Interview with Actress Alison Pill , Actress Mare Winnigham and Director Michael McGowan
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Toronto International Film Festival : All My Puny Sorrows / Interview with Actress Alison Pill , Actress Mare Winnigham and Director Michael McGowan

Sarah Gadon and Alison Pill in All My Puny Sorrows, directed by Michael McGowan. Image courtesy of AMPS Productions Inc Synopsis : Based on the international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows is the poignant story of two sisters-one a concert pianist obsessed with ending her life, the other, a writer, who…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Blue Bayou / Interview : An Exclusive Interview with Actor/Writer/Director Justin Chon 
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Blue Bayou / Interview : An Exclusive Interview with Actor/Writer/Director Justin Chon 

Synopsis : From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Toronto International Film Festival : Q&A with Actor Steven Yuen on “The Walking Dead”, “Okja”, “Burning”, “Minari” and “The Humans”
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Toronto International Film Festival : Q&A with Actor Steven Yuen on “The Walking Dead”, “Okja”, “Burning”, “Minari” and “The Humans”

Q: It’s been six months now that we can introduce you as this “Oscar nominee Steven Yeun” and it will happen forever now. How are you feeling about that title? SY: There are way more worst things to be called. It was a huge honor, and a huge blessing and I guess I’m thankful that…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Everybody's Talking About Jamie
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Exclusive Video Interviews: Max Harwood and Richard E. Grant on Why ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’

The musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, based on the documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16, first debuted at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England in 2017. Now, the inspiring story of someone who was determined to be different and show his classmates his true self is a movie, arriving on Amazon Prime Video this Friday….

Abe Friedtanzer
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Toronto International Film Festival : 20th Anniversary of “Training Day” / Q&A with Director Antione Fuqua and Actor Ethan Hawke
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Toronto International Film Festival : 20th Anniversary of “Training Day” / Q&A with Director Antione Fuqua and Actor Ethan Hawke

Synopsis : Police drama about a veteran officer who escorts a rookie on his first day with the LAPD’s tough inner-city narcotics unit. “Training Day” is a blistering action drama that asks the audience to decide what is necessary, what is heroic and what crosses the line in the harrowing gray zone of fighting urban…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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La Soga 2
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Toronto International Film Festival : Exclusive Video Interview with Manny Perez on his Directorial Debut Film, ‘La Soga 2’

I had the pleasure of interviewing the talented and congenial Manny Perez back in April – my very first interview for CinemaDailyUS.com – when he was starring in Night of the Sicario, and he mentioned during that conversation that he was finishing work on a sequel to La Soga, which premiered in 2009 at the…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Interview: Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham and John Pollono Bring Their ‘Small Engine Repair’ Play to the Screen 
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Interview: Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham and John Pollono Bring Their ‘Small Engine Repair’ Play to the Screen 

The Punisher and The Walking Dead alum Jon Bernthal says his new film, Small Engine Repair, captures the electricity and authenticity of the 2011 play on which it is based. Bernthal, John Pollono and Shea Whigham play Swaino, Frank and Packie, lifelong best friends from a working-class town in New Hampshire, who go to extraordinary…

Karen Butler
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Remembering Michael K. Williams : Q&A / The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, 12 Years a Slave and His Non-Profit Organization
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Remembering Michael K. Williams : Q&A / The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, 12 Years a Slave and His Non-Profit Organization

We all shocked to learn about the untimely death of Michael Kenneth Williams, an actor known for his roles in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and Lovecraft Country, has died last Monday, He was only 54. But we also remembered his magnificent performance throughout his career. So I decided to look for my Q&A coverage of…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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The Voyeurs
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Exclusive Video Interviews: Stars Justice Smith and Ben Hardy on Watching and Being Watched in ‘The Voyeurs’

Do people behave differently when they don’t know they’re being watched, and what responsibility do those who can see something they’re not supposed to bear to look away? These are among the questions posed in the twisty dramatic thriller The Voyeurs. In the new film, Pippa (Sydney Sweeney) and Thomas (Justice Smith) are a young…

Abe Friedtanzer
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‘It’s a Summer Film!’ : Japan Cuts / An Exclusive Interview with Director Sôshi Masumoto
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‘It’s a Summer Film!’ : Japan Cuts / An Exclusive Interview with Director Sôshi Masumoto

Synopsis : Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the production, and try to screen it at their school festival. During the production, Barefoot finds out that Rintaro is a time-traveler from the future. An Exclusive Interview with Director Sôshi Masumoto Q : In this…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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