Interview
John Berberian, an Armenian-American master of the oud, is in our midst.
An artist who readily quoted Kierkegaard? Actually, Robert Motherwell always resisted his media image, the ex-Ivy League graduate student who is a philosopher-intellectual before he is an artist.
“My idol was Pete Seeger, even before I moved to the Village. He still is.”
Film Interview: No Jumping to Conclusions in ‘Sunshine Superman” — Talking to Director Marah Strauch
Marah Strauch’s documentary tries to fathom Carl Boenish’s motive for taking his last leap.
“Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation.”
Making Archie’s Betty compelled Gerald Peary to confront his inner Archie: “The more I made this movie, the more personal it got.
The collaboration with the mortally ill Ed Pincus, Lucia Small explains, came about from a mutual desire to experiment with documentary form.
Not everybody loves the documentary Last Days in Vietnam. Director Rory Kennedy responds to some of the criticism.
The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.
“We’ve let too many valuable creative people leave for Brooklyn, Austin, and Portland. We need to do something about that.”

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