Sean Axmaker

""I believe in the magic and healing powers of words and stories." - Eugene (Sam Neill) in Until the End of the World"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Biography:
I am a film critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a DVD columnist for the MSN (http://movies.msn.com/new-on-dvd/), and a frequent contributor to MSN Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies Online, Greencine.com, and Asian Cult Cinema. I have written for Amazing Stories and Psychotronic Video, have written hundreds of video reviews for Amazon.com, and I have over 1,000 reviews and essays in the Scarecrow Movie Guide. I live alone with my 2 cats, I love movies by Howard Hawks and Orson Welles, will watch anything with Burt Lancaster or Humphrey Bogart in it, and hope I never have to grow up and get a real job.
Favorites:
And now the important stuff: My favorite director: Howard Hawks My director obsession: Orson Welles My favorite films: choose from The Searchers (John Ford, 1956), Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1949), French Can-Can (Jean Renoir, 1955), Touch of Evil (Orson Wells, 1958), Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976), Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), and any number of Howard Hawks films – Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Red River (1948), The Thing From Another World (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Rio Bravo (1959), and the vastly under-appreciated Hatari! (1962) Favorite performer: Burt Lancaster and his million dollar smile.
Publications:
GreenCine , MSN.com , Nitrate Online , Parallax View , Seanax.com , Seattle Post-Intelligencer , Seattle Weekly , St@tic Multimedia , Turner Classic Movies Online
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
2039
Total QuickRatings:
66
Location:
Seattle, WA

Celebrity Interviews Only

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Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) " "I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously" - Lloyd Kaufman Interviewed" — Parallax View
Posted Apr 16, 2010
The Hurt Locker (2009) " True Fiction: Kathryn Bigelow on The Hurt Locker" — Seanax.com
Posted Feb 7, 2010
Humpday (2009) " Lynn Shelton on Humpday" — Parallax View
Posted Jul 10, 2009
The Wrestler (2008) " Interview: Darren Aronofsky on The Wrestler" — Parallax View
Posted Jan 23, 2009
Che: Part One (The Argentine) (2009) " Steven Soderbergh and Che" — Parallax View
Posted Jan 15, 2009
Rachel Getting Married (2008) " Jonathan Demme on Rachel Getting Married - "As long as we are born into families, it's going to be a big deal"" — Parallax View
Posted Oct 23, 2008
Touch of Evil (1958) " Rick Schmidlin on Touch of Evil" — Parallax View
Posted Oct 23, 2008
Touch of Evil (1958) " Bob O'Neil on Touch of Evil" — Parallax View
Posted Oct 23, 2008
Touch of Evil (1958) " Janet Leigh on Touch of Evil" — Parallax View
Posted Oct 23, 2008
Towelhead (2007) " Alan Ball: "It's not my job as a filmmaker to make people feel comfortable"" — Parallax View
Posted Sep 15, 2008
Hamlet 2 (2008) " Steve Coogan: "Can we get away with this?"" — Parallax View
Posted Aug 21, 2008
Baghead (2008) " Jay and Mark Duplass: "The Hardest Part About Mixing Genres Is Mixing Genres"" — GreenCine
Posted Jul 23, 2008
War, Inc. (2008) " John Cusack: "What is Absurdity But the Logical Extension of Current Trends?"" — GreenCine
Posted Jun 10, 2008
My Effortless Brilliance (2008) " Lynn Shelton: "They Could Just Make It Happen With Their Own Words"" — GreenCine
Posted May 27, 2008
Standard Operating Procedure (2008) " Errol Morris: "The Photographs Actually Hide Things From Us"" — GreenCine
Posted May 19, 2008
Son of Rambow (2007) " Garth Jennings on Son of Rambow" — Seanax.com
Posted May 10, 2008
Touch of Evil (1958) " Remembering Charlton Heston - An Appreciation and a 1998 Interview with the Actor" — Seanax.com
Posted Apr 6, 2008
Married Life (2008) " Knowledge is Change: An Interview with Ira Sachs" — Seanax.com
Posted Mar 23, 2008
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) " My Generation: An Interview with Cristian Mingiu" — Seanax.com
Posted Feb 9, 2008
Gone Baby Gone (2007) " What's In Your DVD Player, Amy Ryan?" — MSN.com
Posted Feb 7, 2008
Persepolis (2007) " The Exile: An Interview with Marjane Satrapi" — Seanax.com
Posted Jan 27, 2008
I'm Not There (2007) " Todd Haynes and a Whole Slew of Dylans" — GreenCine
Posted Nov 20, 2007
redacted (2007) " Brian De Palma: "Making You Aware of What You're Watching"" — GreenCine
Posted Nov 12, 2007
You Kill Me (2007) " What's in Your DVD Player, Ben Kingsley?" — MSN.com
Posted Oct 9, 2007
Lust, Caution (2007) " Ang Lee: "I Like to Keep That Mystery"" — GreenCine
Posted Oct 8, 2007
Inland Empire (2006) " What's in Your DVD Player, David Lynch?" — MSN.com
Posted Aug 14, 2007
Inland Empire (2006) " David Lynch's Empire" — GreenCine
Posted Aug 13, 2007
La Vie en Rose (La Mome) (2007) " A Moment with Olivier Dahan" — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 25, 2007
Sicko (2007) " Michael Moore: Director's latest focuses on health care system" — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 18, 2007
Allegro (2006) " Catching Up with Christoffer Boe" — GreenCine
Posted May 9, 2007
I'll Take You There (2002) " A Conversation with Adrienne Shelly" — GreenCine
Posted May 3, 2007
Old Joy (2006) " Kelly Reichardt Interview" — GreenCine
Posted May 2, 2007
10 Items or Less (2006) " What's In Your DVD Player, Morgan Freeman?" — MSN.com
Posted Apr 26, 2007
The Lives of Others (2006) " Oscar talk has German director buzzing" — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 17, 2007
Smokin' Aces (2007) " Smokin' Aces with Joe Carnahan and Jeremy Piven" — GreenCine
Posted Jan 29, 2007
Children of Men (2006) " Alfonso Cuarón Dares to Hope" — GreenCine
Posted Dec 29, 2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) " Tom Tykwer and the Collector's Compulsion" — GreenCine
Posted Dec 29, 2006
The Promise (Master of Crimson Armor) (Wu ji) (2005) " Chen Kaige and The Promise" — GreenCine
Posted Dec 19, 2006
Pusher (1999) " Nicolas Winding Refn: "I don't make crime films"" — GreenCine
Posted Nov 7, 2006
Jet Li's Fearless (Huo Yuan Jia) (Legend of a Fighter) (2006) " Jet Li hopes 'Fearless' conveys the heart of martial arts" — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 21, 2006
Tsotsi (Thug) (2006) " Gavin Hood: "These issues are timeless"" — GreenCine
Posted Mar 1, 2006
The Aristocrats (2005) " Paul Provenza: "All it is, is just a joke"" — GreenCine
Posted Jan 24, 2006
Silent Running (1972) " From the Drawing Board to Immersive Media with Douglas Trumbull" — GreenCine
Posted Jan 9, 2006
Land of the Dead (2005) " George A. Romero: "I've Had a Terrific Run of It"" — GreenCine
Posted Oct 18, 2005
Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) " David Strathairn: "Film is Our Literature"" — GreenCine
Posted Oct 14, 2005
The Warriors (1979) " Walter Hill: "Operate on your instincts"" — GreenCine
Posted Oct 5, 2005
Lord of War (2005) " Andrew Niccol Finds a World of "Macabre Absurdity"" — GreenCine
Posted Sep 16, 2005
Last Days (2005) " Gus Van Sant: "A cinema that might have existed"" — GreenCine
Posted Jul 21, 2005
Bright Leaves (2004) " Ross McElwee's "Replication of Reality"" — GreenCine
Posted Jul 5, 2005
Sahara (2005) " Steve Zahn and the Secret Formula for Onscreen Chemistry: An Interview with Steve Zahn" — GreenCine
Posted Apr 8, 2005
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