Andi Teran http://www.anditeran.com/ en Copyright 2010 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:11:09 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Twilight Girls Gone Wild! (An Early Look at The Runaways) Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie of The Runaways. Inset: The real Runaways. At last night's midtown Manhattan press screening of the highly anticipated biopic The Runaways, a diminutive figure in a black hoodie slunk into the front row minutes before the lights dimmed. I could just make out a pair of Kohl-rimmed eyes and an inky fringe, but it was the unmistakable slouch that made me wonder: "Is that Kristen Stewart?" I was half-right. It was Joan Jett, the pioneering hard rocker portrayed in the film by Stewart. Continue reading at vanityfair.com]]> http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2010/02/twilight-girls-gone-wild-an-early-look-at-the-runaways.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2010/02/twilight-girls-gone-wild-an-early-look-at-the-runaways.html The Written Word Film Hollywood Kristen Stewart Twilight Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:11:09 -0500 Video Interview: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Chris Weitz, and More on New Moon Twilight: New Moon's vampires, werewolves, and director talk to VF.com's Andi Teran about their acting methods, on-set bonding, and going barefoot for interviews. ]]> http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/11/video-interview-kristen-stewart-robert-pattinson-chris-weitz-and-more-on-new-moon.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/11/video-interview-kristen-stewart-robert-pattinson-chris-weitz-and-more-on-new-moon.html The Written Word Chris Weitz Film Hollywood Kristen Stewart Robert Pattinson Twilight Video Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:23:48 -0500 Video Interview: Robert Pattinson Vanity Fair Cover ]]> http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/11/video-interview-robert-pattinson.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/11/video-interview-robert-pattinson.html The Written Word Film Hollywood Robert Pattinson Twilight Vanity Fair Video Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:03:42 -0500 David Lynch on Going to India to Shoot His Next Movie (Q&A) Between daily weather reports and tweeting about rainbow trout, legendary filmmaker David Lynch also makes time to introduce every episode of the fascinating web documentary series Interview Project, created by his 27-year-old son, Austin Lynch. During his downtime, Lynch is working to bring meditation into schools worldwide. Vulture caught up with Lynch at the Russian Tea Room on Sunday, before his scheduled speaking engagement with the Hudson Union Society, to discuss his favorite directors, the importance of final cut, and how his next film project will take him to India. How did the Interview Project come to fruition? My son Austin and his friend Jason had this idea to go on a road trip and interview people. They went on a 20,000-mile road trip, found people along the way, and started interviewing every place they went. Then they cut them together in a very good way -- short, but you get to know the people. It gives you a feeling of what's happening in the world, kind of the America today, and you meet some interesting characters. It's their project. You run a foundation that strives to teach Transcendental Meditation to children. Has seeing the results of that work affected you creatively? Not so much creatively, but it started because I saw some students who were in a school where everyone was meditating. I saw these students give a high-school play performance in a little theater on a very cold night. I thought I was going to be bored to death. Out on the stage came these students -- they weren't actors, they were just students -- but the play they put on was so creative, their timing so perfect, the intelligence of this play, the naturalness of their acting; I couldn't really believe what I was seeing. You hear the state of the schools, and they've fallen to this point where it's beyond absurdity. Things happen in schools that no one would ever dream of -- a nightmare -- so much stress, so little learning. It's very, very bad; however, you give students this technique to dive within, to transcend, to experience that big ocean of bliss -- consciousness, intelligence, creativity -- it's unbounded there. Give them that experience and things transform right away; this [meditation] from within changes everything. I went on IMDb.com to see what you were up to next ... Most of it is lies ... Well, it listed Snootworld as your next directing project. Is that true? No. [Laughs] Snootworld is a kind of children's film, and it's not happening yet. What is your next project? I'm going to make a film on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It won't be a so-called David Lynch film, really; it will be about Maharishi and the knowledge he brought out. It'll hold a lot of abstractions. We're on our way to India in December to start the India part of it. Will it be a narrative feature? It'll have to go in the documentary department, I think. I don't think it'll be a talking heads kind of thing, but we're going to do a lot of interviews with people. We'll interview -- I hope -- in India, a 97-year-old man who was with Maharishi from the beginning and get stories of times that weren't so well recorded. You're on Twitter now and seem to really interact with people. Yeah. I started telling people what I would do this weekend and asked them to tell me what they did -- what they're going to build or work on. It gives you the feeling that we're all out working away and we can share what we work on. That, I think, is a good thing. What advice would you share with aspiring filmmakers who have boldly original ideas that don't fit into the traditional Hollywood system? Find a way to make the film. Find a way to make the film! If you found the way was through the studio system, make sure that you have final cut, because if you don't have final cut it will never be your film. Stay true to your own voice; stay true to the ideas all along the way, and you'll be okay. Speaking of directors, who are you fond of? I like, um -- kind of more like a comrade. I love Werner Herzog. I like Marty Scorsese. I like some Paul Thomas Anderson, Aki Kaurismäki ... and I know I like a bunch more.]]> http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/11/david-lynch-on-going-to-india-to-shoot-his-next-movie.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/11/david-lynch-on-going-to-india-to-shoot-his-next-movie.html The Written Word David Lynch Film New York NewYorkMag.com Q&A Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0500 Video Proust Questionnaire: Twilight: New Moon Edition New Moon in Los Angeles. In celebration of New Moon premiere day we give you the Twilight: New Moon Proust Questionnaire. ]]> http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/11/video-proust-questionnaire-twilight-new-moon-edition.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/11/video-proust-questionnaire-twilight-new-moon-edition.html The Written Word Chris Weitz Film Hollywood Kristen Stewart Robert Pattinson Twilight Video Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:21:02 -0500 Attack of the Wolves, Part Two: Meet Kiowa Gordon http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/attack-of-the-wolves-part-two-meet-kiowa-gordon.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/attack-of-the-wolves-part-two-meet-kiowa-gordon.html The Written Word Film Twilight Vanity Fair Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:54:19 -0500 Attack of the Wolves, Part One: Meet Alex Meraz http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/attack-of-the-wolves-part-one-meet-alex-meraz.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/attack-of-the-wolves-part-one-meet-alex-meraz.html The Written Word Film Twilight Vanity Fair Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:53:17 -0500 On the Set of Twilight:Eclipse with Ashley Greene http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/on-the-set-of-twilighteclipse-with-ashley-greene.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/on-the-set-of-twilighteclipse-with-ashley-greene.html The Written Word Film Twilight Vanity Fair Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:52:18 -0500 Lenny Kravitz Returns, But Not From the 1970s! http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/lenny-kravitz-returns-but-not-from-the-1970s.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/lenny-kravitz-returns-but-not-from-the-1970s.html The Written Word Music Vanity Fair Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:50:30 -0500 Don't Call An Education a Pedophile Movie http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/dont-call-an-education-a-pedophile-movie.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/dont-call-an-education-a-pedophile-movie.html The Written Word Film Vanity Fair Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:49:17 -0500 Is There an Indie Rock Dance Party in Twilight: New Moon? http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/is-there-an-indie-rock-dance-party-in-twilight-new-moon.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/10/is-there-an-indie-rock-dance-party-in-twilight-new-moon.html The Written Word Film Music Twilight Vanity Fair Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:47:15 -0500 Juliette Lewis Wants to Play Patti Smith! http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/08/juliette-lewis-wants-to-play-patti-smith.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/08/juliette-lewis-wants-to-play-patti-smith.html The Written Word Film Music Vanity Fair Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:43:53 -0500 Hill Yeah Vinegar Hill House wakes up a secret Brooklyn neighborhood. Vinegar Hill has long been a hidden destination for Federal-style architecture and cobblestoned streets. Now it's also home to one of Brooklyn's best brunch spots, courtesy of Vinegar Hill House. This new restaurant has already earned a respectable reputation--and long waits--for chef Jean Adamson's Middle Eastern and Mediterranean-influenced cooking, which she prepares in a wood-burning oven in the back of the Colonial-looking space. But the new weekend brunch service makes Vinegar Hill House the pre-Brooklyn Flea destination, especially when you can grab a table on the sunny patio. There's always a daily special on hand; recently it was a fragrant, coriander-rubbed skirt steak and eggs ($18). On the main menu, try the ful medames ($9), a modernized version of a popular Egyptian breakfast dish, consisting of smooth, pureed fava beans topped with cucumbers, black olives and lemon. For a sweeter start, go for the pillow-soft sourdough pancake ($9) covered with velvety ricotta and caramelized bananas. For those imbibing, the Swan Song 2 ($9) takes the standard glass of fresh orange juice and punches it up with applejack and grenadine. And the coffee ($3) is dark, French-press-rich and ever-flowing. So put on your walking shoes, board the F train and get that side of maple-vinegar-glazed bacon ($5). On this trip, you can stroll it off afterward. Vinegar Hill House, 72 Hudson Ave., Brooklyn (between Front and Water sts.), Brooklyn; 718-522-1018 or vinegarhillhouse.com]]> http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/06/hill-yeah.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/06/hill-yeah.html The Written Word Brooklyn Food New York Tasting Table Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:42:43 -0500 Kim Gordon Watches Gossip Girl. You Got a Problem with That? kim-top.jpgKim Gordon, on stage at the Apple Store SoHo. Photographs by Hamish Robertson. Last night, Kim Gordon sat in a Soho office, a blue silk dress grazing her knees. Her outfit, complete with elegant low black heels, seemed fit for a tea party, not a rock show. But rock out she did, and hard. Earlier in the evening, she and her band, Sonic Youth, debuted new songs from their 16th album,The Eternal (out June 9 from Matador Records) in front of a packed house of head-bobbing super fans at the Soho Apple Store. “It’s so quiet, one would think this is a temple to technology,” she deadpanned at the start of the show, then clutched her guitar, kicked an effects pedal, and belted out the lyrics to the new song “Anti-Orgasm.” It’s hard to believe that nearly three decades have passed since Sonic Youth debuted its category-defying brand of noise rock. A lot has changed in 27 years, but on this night—which also happened to be Gordon’s 25th wedding anniversary to her husband and band mate, Thurston Moore—the line between the past and present seemed to disappear. Don't let the skirt and shoes fool you. At 56, an age when most people have settled down, she's still one of New York City's true rock 'n' roll badasses. "I like the idea of contrasts and the idea of playing against type,” Gordon tells me after the show. “[The notion] that rock is supposed to be hard and leather and stuff like that—I think it’s ridiculous. I’m more intrigued when I see a girl or a woman onstage who you can’t fit into a category.” kim-guitars.jpgPhotograph by Hamish Robertson. A devoted wife and mother to a teenage daughter, Gordon is also a creative polymath who dedicates herself to the worlds of fashion and visual arts, in addition to music (in which she was never formally trained). After selling her successful 1990s clothing line X-Girl, which brought femininity to the female skate crowd, she started Mirror/Dash, a “timeless and ageless” line inspired by her own closet (and sold at Urban Outfitters). “It’s a line that's trying to suit my lifestyle, because I don’t live in New York all of the time,” she says. “I travel a lot, and live in a small community.” She and Moore reside in the liberal college town of Northampton, Massachusetts—just across the river from their friend and fellow indie-rock hero J. Mascis, of Dinosaur Jr. (“We always thought that [Amherst, where he lives] was so exotic—there were cows there, and grass!”) Home life sounds somewhat normal. Gordon’s a vampire fan—of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Let the Right One In variety—and she admits to watching Gossip Girl with Moore and their daughter. (“As bad as they are as role models, the fact that they’re good students has a real impact—it surprisingly counterbalances the other things,” she says of the show's errant characters.) When Gordon was her daughter’s age, she was inspired by her parent’s collection of jazz records. Billie Holliday gave way to Joni Mitchell, and actresses like Charlotte Rampling and Jane Fonda became inspirations as well. “I still think Jane Fonda is amazing," she says. "There’s something about her voice that I’ve always drawn some inspiration from. You never know what’s going to come out of her.”
thurston-220px.jpgThurston Moore. Photograph by Hamish Robertson.
So what about the voices of women just at the beginning of their careers? Who else qualifies as a rock 'n' roll badass these days? Gordon immediately mentions Karen O, the individualist singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but she also mentions Leslie Keffer, a lesser-known noise-music artist from Tennessee. “There’s a lot of women in the noise scene, which I find fascinating because it’s a scene that’s sort of built up from nerdy record-collector boys—it started out that way and it’s somehow blossomed into something else,” Gordon says. “I like things that are unconventional. Things get stylized so quickly. We’ve all gotten used to MTV; we’re all so fashion aware. TV can dictate what you’re supposed to look like in certain circumstances. Music is really supposed to be about freedom.” As the only woman in a male-dominated band, Kim Gordon has always stood out, her voice emerging from a swirl of cacophonous guitars. When I ask if she ever feels outnumbered, she mentions another new song, called “Sacred Trickster.” “I’m really into the painter Yves Klein, and that’s what he called himself, a ‘sacred trickster.’ I identified with that because I’m not really trained as a musician. I just kind of fell into it." Perhaps the lyrics of the song give a more concrete answer: “What’s it like to be a girl in a band? I don’t quite understand. That’s so quaint to hear. I feel so faint, my dear … ”]]> http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/06/kim-gordon-watches-gossip-girl-you-got-a-problem-with-that.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/06/kim-gordon-watches-gossip-girl-you-got-a-problem-with-that.html The Written Word Music New York Sonic Youth Vanity Fair Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:48:46 -0500 FIKA: Swede Sensation fikanyc.com FIKA Park Avenue, 407 Park Avenue South (between 28th & 29th streets); 646-649-5133 or fikanyc.com]]> http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/05/fika-swede-sensation.html http://www.anditeran.com/the-written-word/2009/05/fika-swede-sensation.html The Written Word Design Food New York Tasting Table Wed, 13 May 2009 17:01:53 -0500