the best underrated film of 2009

Charlie Rose, the Larry King of public television in the US, recently interviewed the writer and director Ramin Bahrani (I’ve blogged about Bahrani’s genius here), as well as the lead actors, Souleymane Sy Savane and Red West, about the film “Goodbye Solo.”

I recently saw the film–a story about the unlikely friendship between a Senegalese immigrant taxi driver and an old white southerner in Winston-Salem, North Carolina–during its short run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It definitely lives up to all the hype that preceded its arrival on the big screen. If it comes out on DVD, on-demand, Sundance, premium cable, Netflix, or is available online, watch it.

In the video interview (above) Bahrani, who also directed “Man Push Cart” and “Chop Shop,” talks about the genesis of what will probably turn out to be one of the probably one of the best underrated films of 2009. Sy Savane, who is now starring in a Broadway play about postapartheid South Africa, also gets a word in.