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Don’t Look Now, or My Struggles with Autobiographical Filmmaking

By Jonathan Wysocki | September 16, 2020

By Jonathan Wysocki | September 16, 2020

Don’t Look Now, or My Struggles with Autobiographical Filmmaking

Dramarama writer-director Jonathan Wysocki on the perils and pitfalls of making work that draws from one’s own life.

Reading Music: On Trying to Pay Attention to Paul Stanley’s Autobiography While the Country Falls Apart

By Emily Nokes | March 20, 2017

By Emily Nokes | March 20, 2017

Reading Music: On Trying to Pay Attention to Paul Stanley’s Autobiography While the Country Falls Apart

Emily Nokes meant to write about the KISS member’s paperback months ago —then Trump happened.

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness

By Zach Clark | August 20, 2014

By Zach Clark | August 20, 2014

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness

How do you bounce back from the lowest, most humiliating experience of your life? If you're Catherine Breillat, you make a film about it.

Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) Talks Morrissey’s Autobiography

By Colin Meloy | December 7, 2013

By Colin Meloy | December 7, 2013

Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) Talks Morrissey’s Autobiography

How to even begin? I mean, how?

Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta) Talks Richard Hell’s I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

By Dean Wareham | March 16, 2013

By Dean Wareham | March 16, 2013

Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta) Talks Richard Hell’s I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

In 1979, at age 16, I saw Richard Hell & the Voidoids at CBGB, the first rock show I ever paid for with my own money. I remember being in awe of...