When I spoke with Asghar Farhadi during the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 14, 2016 about THE SALESMAN, one of us (me) fully anticipated that it, like his Oscar™-winning film A SEPARATION, would be nominated for an Oscar™. Neither of us could have anticipated that when it was, in fact, nominated, Farhadi would not… Read More »
TRUMBO — Jay Roach Interview
The fear-based manipulation as seen in TRUMBO is something that its director, Jay Roach, doesn’t see as ending with the demise of the Black List. It was one of the last things we talked about on November 12, 2015, but it may be the crux of the reason that Roach wanted to make his film about the… Read More »
Ursula Meier Finds A Brother for SISTER
Ursula Meier knew she had found her muse in Kacey Mottet Klein when she discovered him in 2008, casting him in her film HOME. When I spoke to her on October 29, 2012, we talked about his evolution as an actor, and how she managed to keep that unselfconscious quality that he had shown in… Read More »
Jim Rash & Nat Faxon Occupy THE WAY WAY BACK
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have made a name for themselves in front of the camera by being funny Faxon on Fox’s “Ben and Kate, and Rash as the sartorially terrifying Dean Pelton on NBCs “Community. No surprise there, considering that they are both veterans of the L.A.-based improv troop, The Groundlings, where they began… Read More »
Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman Consider ADAPTATION
Frankly, I would have been disappointed if an interview with director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman hadn’t turned surreal with the first question posed. The team that brought us BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and now with ADAPTATION, a tall tale of orchid hunters and moviemaking, have their own take on reality, which makes for a refreshing change… Read More »