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Entries by Dan Persons from 08/2009

Mighty Movie Podcast: A Brisk Trade in Paul Giamatti: Sophie Barthes on Cold Souls

| Posted 08.06.2009

Barthes was willing to give us some insight into her definition of soul and what it's like dealing with actors raised in the land of Stanislavski.

Mighty Movie Podcast Exclusive: Neal Brennan on The Goods

| Posted 08.13.2009

The Hangover set the comedy bar high this summer, but The Goods ably continues the tradition of taking fools and rogues and elevating them to near-mythic proportions.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Have You Hugged Your Cadaver Today? Glenn McQuaid on I Sell the Dead

| Posted 08.14.2009

I Sell the Dead has pretty much nothing going for it except a neat cast, plus the visual inventiveness and sheer, audacious wit of its director, Mr. McQuaid. Fortunately, that's more than enough.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Won't Forgive, Can't Forget: Oliver Hirschbiegel on Five Minutes of Heaven

| Posted 08.19.2009

Could it just be coincidence? Could it just be that, by some random alignment of the planets, we have two films about the conflict in Northern Ireland opening on the same weekend?

Mighty Movie Podcast Exclusive: Spike Lee & Stew on Passing Strange: The Movie

| Posted 08.20.2009

I got a chance to sit down with Spike Lee and singer/songwriter Stew to discuss the New York musical hit, Passing Strange.

Mighty Movie Podcast Exclusive: Ang Lee on Taking Woodstock

| Posted 08.24.2009

Director Ang Lee latches onto the almost universally familiar iconography to give us an alt-view of events from the perspective of the locals. Click below to hear my interview with him.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Whale Hunter Hunters: Dan Stone & James Joyner on At the Edge of the World

| Posted 08.27.2009

In At the Edge of the World, director Dan Stone follows activists as they track down and challenge a fleet of Japanese whalers hunting in the protected waters of the Antarctic.