Posts Tagged ‘director’

Filmmaker Perspectives: Doug Karr’s ‘Ten For Grandpa’

Filmmaker Perspectives: Doug Karr’s ‘Ten For Grandpa’

By Guest • Jan 4th, 2008 • Category: Features, Interviews, Spotlight

There’s a certain safety to making a film culled from the ether of imagined reality. Your idiosyncratic characters are sewn together from the mist of imagination so there’s less risk of real people becoming insulted, angry, hurt, litigious or even homicidal as a result of your fictional film. For some strange reason, I decided to stray from those sheltered waters recently by writing a new narrative film based on the life of my grandfather, David Karr.


The Terry Gilliam Interview

The Terry Gilliam Interview

By Christopher Heard • Apr 13th, 2005 • Category: Interviews

There is a mythological character by the name of Sisyphus whose gig was to be condemned throughout eternity to role a giant rock up the side of a mountain only to have it role back down to the ground just as he was about to reach the summit causing Sisyphus to begin the process all over again.

Mention that to filmmaker Terry Gilliam and he’ll nod in familiarity as it sounds a lot like the way his career has gone over the last twenty odd years.