Articles Archive for April 2010
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Actor Akihiro Kitamura’s face pops up on the Skype screen but barely gets a word out before his chihuahua, Discocherry, tries to bogart our interview. “She goes crazy!” Kitamura says, chatting from his Los Angeles apartment one recent afternoon. Although he set out to be a director when he arrived in the US from Japan 13 years ago, Kitamura seems to have found a niche as an actor. He’s had a few guest spots on reality shows produced by MTV and VH-1, playing the crazy Japanese guy, and scored a …
Steve Dollar has been thinking about film since his childhood visits to the drive-in theaters of the Florida Panhandle in the early 1960s, where exposure to Mondo Cane and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly irradiated his tender brain, causing permanent after-effects. Later on, he started writing about the stuff for daily newspapers in large American cities. He divides his time between Florida, Los Angeles, and New York – where he writes a weekly column on repertory film for the Wall Street Journal’s Greater New York section, and covers other cinematic matters of a Gotham-istic nature. He also has contributed to such publications as Newsday, the New York Sun, GQ, Playboy.com, Time Out New York, and the GreenCine Daily. 24XPS is a topology of cinematic enthusiasms, an archive of heedless indulgences, and a free-for-all of forsaken, forgotten, and forbidden movies, celebrating anything and everything celluloid and pixel. Please visit often and tell your friends.
