Summary: Alex Karpovsky, the director, writer and star of two new films opening in NYC on Friday, February 22nd, returns to the Filmwax Radio broadcast for his 4th visit. We discuss the 2 films, the road comedy RED FLAG and the darker RUBBERNECK, the latter which had its New York premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. Both films are being distributed by Tribeca Film and are having a theatrical engagement at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater at Lincoln Center. A double feature discount is available if you want to see them back to back. Also discussed are Alex's role in recent Filmwax Radio guest Sam Neave's film, ALMOST IN LOVE, currently at the reRun Theater as well as his role on the hit HBO series, GIRLS. SYNOPSES: RED FLAG: A laugh-out-loud road trip comedy, starring writer/director Alex Karpovsky (GIRLS) as Alex Karpovsky, a newly-single indie filmmaker who hits the road with an old friend (Onur Tukel) to promote one of his films. As the pair travels from one half-empty theater to the next, pursued by an adoring fan (Jennifer Prediger) who drives them into an exceptionally uncomfortable love triangle, Alex-as-Alex is forced to suffer an endless series of humiliations, each one more absurd than the last. Also stars Dustin Defas. RUBBERNECK: Months after a weekend fling, Boston research scientist Paul (Karpovsky) continues to lust after his beautiful coworker Danielle (Jamie Ray Newman), nurturing his fantasies with the occasional polite exchange at work. But once she starts dating another scientist at their lab, his infatuation quickly turns into obsession – and he finds himself unable to control his desires. A slow-burn character study-turned-psychosexual thriller, co-written by Karpovsky and Garth Donovan, RUBBERNECK is a chillingly believable story of workplace romance gone wrong.
