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posted by Landon Cassman at 4:44 pm.

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Alright. I must make an apology here. The title of this blog is Let’s Go to the Indie Movies, and yet I’ve barely mentioned any truely “indie” films yet (or at least not many). So I apologize for just giving you some of the stuff that you just haven’t bothered to watch. But this time, I went out of my way to ensure I wrote about a film that went basically unnoticed by most frequent filmgoers, not even making $500,000 at the box office (thanks imdb!). This film from 2007 by the name of Interview, created by and starring Steve Buscemi alongside a beautiful Sienna Miller, was definitely a good choice for my comeback into independent movies.

First off, I want to say right now after recently finishing this movie that I pretty much loved it. The story is quite simple. Steve Buscemi plays a political journalist named Pierre Peders who is assigned, to his dismay, to cover a story on a tabloid-superstar actress by the name of Katya, played by Sienna Miller. After being a poor sport and not being professional with the interview, Pierre’s attitude forces Katya to storm out of the…..what’s another word for interview…. interview. Circumstances occur which brings Katya to end up bringing Pierre up to her nearby apartment, and a most unconventional interview ensues. Sounds hot right?

This draws on a handful of themes that I feel are really relevant to the media culture we’re involved with today. In today’s world of news, the majority of the public feels that the coming out of Lindsey Lohan (OMG she has a girlfriend!) is more important than the pressing matters of the falling economy or the war in Iraq. Throughout the film, Pierre is constantly ridiculing Katya for not being a “real person” and to “stop telling lies to herself”, because he feels that celebrity gossip isn’t worth a minute of his time. But, the film’s focus isn’t on how people are more interested in celebrities than anything else, but how the lives of these people are reported to us. With the help of alcohol, Pierre hopes to at least get the interview that he was assigned to, leading to a deeper conversation with an actress who’s not supposed to be an actual thinking human being. A relationship forms between the two of them that is beautiful to watch. And we realize that celebrities are people just like anyone else, and journalists are…well….they’re something else. Just watch it for the sheer beauty of not just Sienna Miller, but of the lovely and song-like dialog.

Landon Cassman: Through boredom and pure enjoyment I find myself always involved in either film or music related endeavors. This is one of them.