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Zoe Kazan @ BAM

Zoe explodes with epilepsy and implodes with heartache in Bradley Rust Gray’s “The Exploding Girl” at BAMcinemaFest.

Granddaughter of Elia Kazan, and daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, the talented actress told me that she doesn’t engage much with her Greek hertiage, but did recently celebrate Greek Easter with its customary dyed-red egg cracking ritual and home baked kourambiedes cookies.

06-25-09: Actress Zoe Kazan inside BAM

A character study in five formats by Ry Russo-Young

At the BAMcinemaFEST last night, I met effervesent Ry Russo-Young, director of “You Won’t Miss Me,” starring Stella Schnabel as a troubled, aspiring actress. 

Super 8, Super 16, HD, Digital Video, and Flipcam—proficiently wielded by cinematographer Kitao Sakurai—evoke different psychological states.  This could be a primer on wringing moods out of film formats.

06-23-09: Director Ry Russo-Young outside BAM

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