To speak with Mira Nair is to enjoy the workings of a remarkable mind, one full of humor, intelligence, and a passionate enthusiasm for the art of storytelling. It’s that last that shines through her adapation of Thackery’s “Vanity Fair”, a rollicking tale of a society tottering between two paradigms. While the conversation rarely strayed from… Read More »
Taylor Hackford Presents RAY
You can’t talk to Taylor Hackford about RAY and not understand why this was a project that he pursued doggedly for over a decade. Given Jamie Foxx’s electrifying performance as Ray Charles, it was worth the wait. Hackford saw the story not just of one man beating the odds personally and professionally, but also as metaphor… Read More »
Malcolm McDowell Explains Why He’s GANGSTER NO 1
I spoke with Malcolm McDowell in October 2001 during the Mill Valley Film festival where GANGSTER NO 1 was screening. As charming in person as on film, he spoke eloquently about playing madmen, working with Kubrick and Anderson, and the hazards of taking career advice from writers. GANGSTER NO 1 is a slick and stylish tale… Read More »
Raoul Peck on SOMETIMES IN APRIL
Raoul Peck is a softspoken man, but the gentle timbre of his voice does nothing to disguise the passion he feels for SOMETIMES IN APRIL, which he wrote and directed for HBO. This look at the Rwandan genocide of 1994, an event that took a million lives in 100 days, was a topic he was… Read More »
Gurinder Chadha’s Imaginative BRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Gurinder Chadha, like her films, has a lot to say on a great many topics. Also like her films, she’s entertaining while she’s saying it. When I spoke to her on January 27, 2005, she waxed loquacious on Bollywood meeting Hollywood on and off the screen, her responsibility as a filmmaker to her audience, and why… Read More »
Mike Wranovics is UP FOR GRABS
There are two stories involved in Mike Wranovics smart and wry debut film, UP FOR GRABS. The first is, of course, the one involving the battle royale over Barry Bonds’ 73rd home run ball, claimed by two people who were nothing if not tenacious in their willingness to hang on to that piece of sports… Read More »
Robbie Stamp Revisits THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Some of us have been waiting decades for Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s trilogy to make it to the big screen. That made it hard to maintain anything remotely resembling journalistic detachment when I talked with the one of the film’s executive producers, Robbie Stamp on February 18, 2005 when he was in San Francisco for WonderCon. We… Read More »
CRASH With Ryan Phillppe and Paul Haggis
CRASH represents a sea change in careers moves for many of the people involved, not the least director and co-writer Paul Haggis, a veteran of television sitcoms. The provocative story of anger, fear, and race relations in contemporary Los Angeles also provides Ryan Phillippe with one of his best roles in years, maybe the best… Read More »
Rachel Weisz Tends THE CONSTANT GARDENER
With Rachel Weisz, you can always count on an intelligent conversation. The actress who took firsts at Oxford (think an A, but much, much rarer), has more than proven her versatility over the years from historical dramas such as THE LAND GIRLS and ENEMY AT THE GATES, to raw social commentary in THE SHAPE OF THINGS… Read More »
Claire Danes is More Than A SHOPGIRL
One of the first questions I had for Claire Danes was about her approach to actively playing an essentially passive woman as the title character in SHOPGIRL. This tale of love at cross-purposes in the sterile landscape of Los Angeles let Danes, star of the late, lamented “My So-Called Life” as well as such quirky… Read More »
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