Bright Lights Film Journal

From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal

Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.

"I dare anyone to squeeze between two covers a more varied, useful and flat out entertaining sampling of the personalities that make the seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com

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Damien Love

Damien Love has written about film for The Guardian, The Scotsman, The Sunday Herald, and Uncut Music & Movies magazine. His book on Robert Mitchum, Solid, Dad, Crazy was published in 2003. In a labor worthy of his last name, Damien brought back into print Val Lewton's long-forgotten 1932 novel No Bed of Her Own.

» The Miracle Worker: An Interview with Arthur Penn (BLFJ 65 – August 2009)

"If the system is inimical to you, then you do whatever you can to alter your relationship to the system."

» The Mole Man: Going Underground with Alejandro Jodorowsky (BLFJ 61 – August 2008)

"I think Spielberg is the son from when Walt Disney fucked Minnie Mouse."

» Monsters, Inc.: An Interview with Ray Harryhausen (BLFJ 58 – November 2007)

"I wrecked Washington, and I wrecked New York, and San Francisco. That got rather tiresome after a while."

» Nearer My Corman to Thee: Roger Corman Remembers, and Roger Corman Remembered (BLFJ 56 – May 2007)

Give us another naked nurse and some more explosions!

» Inherit the Wind: Talking with Peter Bogdanovich and Joseph McBride About The Other Side of the Wind (BLFJ 53 – February 2007)

Life with the restless ghost of Orson Welles' last movie

» A Frontline Guy: An Interview with Burt Young (BLFJ 53 – August 2006)

"Get Burt!"