The first thing Greta Gerwig did upon sitting down for our interview on May 3, 2013 was to be attacked by her chair. Actually, she sat on her hand, which had a disarming charm to it. As the co-writer of FRANCES HA, along with director Noah Baumbach, it was the perfect indication of how close… Read More »
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
A woman rises naked from the bed of her lover, dresses, walks outside and up the stairs of her duplex to spend the rest of the night, platonically, with another man. With that opening sequence of CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES, Eric Byler engages his audience from the first frame of film in a way that is irresistible.… Read More »
Drew Goddard & Amy Acker Visit THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
The problem with doing an interview for THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is that it’s a film that should have its delicious assortment of surprises kept under wraps, not spoiled. Keeping those secrets while the film was in development and then production was one of the topics covered with director/co-writer (with Joss Whedon) Drew Goddard… Read More »
Eric Byler Says CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
There were more than a few surprises in my chat with Eric Byler about his groundbreaking film, CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES. The talk quickly turned from film’s story to the story of the sexual politics within the film and within the Asian-American filmmaking community which has reacted to CHARLOTTE in surprising ways. You may never look at the… Read More »