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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 lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he collects Steve Buscemi's junk mail. He also has contributed to such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, the New York Sun, GQ, Paste, Playboy.com, and Time Out New York. 24XPS is a topology of cinematic enthusiasms: interviews with filmmakers, screenwriters, actors and designers; reviews of indie, cult, genre, art, forsaken, forgotten, and forbidden movies; conversations with artists and fans about the films they love and hate; news about upcoming releases; festival coverage; and personal essays about anything and everything celluloid and pixel. Please visit often and tell your friends.
