Click here to listen to the interview with Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen. MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE are all aspects of the character played by Elizabeth Olsen in a transcendent performance. When I spoke to her and the film’s writer/director Sean Durkin on September 1, 2011, I started by asking about the choice to have… Read More »
Joe Carnahan & Frank Grillo Talk THE GREY
Joe Carnahan and Frank Grillo are the perfect example of the sort of male bonding that occurs when guys go through an experience that is both dangerous and exhilarating. After making THE GREY in a remote region of British Columbia, they’ve got a bantering rapport and a palpable mutual respect. When I spoke with them on January… Read More »
Taiki Waititi’s BOY
Taika Waititi returned to his actual hometown, and his actual childhood home, to make BOY. The story, set in 1984, is fictional, but when I talked to him on March 15, 2012, one of the things we talked about was the reality behind the fiction. It’s not just the eponymous character’s abiding devotion to ice… Read More »
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Exposes INTRUDERS
I spoke with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo by phone on March 19, 2012, and one of the things I most wanted to discuss with him was his unconventional approach to a horror film with INTRUDERS. In it, the monster has more to do with family secrets and the misguided attempts by the parents to spare their… 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 »
Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij Listen to the SOUND OF MY VOICE
For co-writers Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, making SOUND OF MY VOICE wasn’t just a labor of love, but one of passion. Batmaglij directed and Marling stars as Maggie, the enigmatic leader of a cult who claims to have come from the future to save her followers in a film that lets the audience decide… Read More »
Jessica Yu Announces the LAST CALL AT THE OASIS
Jessica Yu sees no reason why a documentary can’t be informative, terrifying, and beautiful all at the same time. LAST CALL AT THE OASIS is certainly proof that she can realize her vision. When I spoke with her on May 1, 2012, the first thing I wanted to know was why she would want to… Read More »
Tanya Wexler Embraces HYSTERIA
Tanya Wexler’s gift for narrative was never more in evidence than in the way she answered my first question. I wanted to know what it was like to see her film, HYSTERIA, with an audience for the first time. She responded with a raucous and vibrant prose poem on the exhilaration of filmmaking as a… Read More »
Lorene Scafaria Is SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
Writer/director Lorene Scafaria started her writing career by using her talent to win free pizzas back when she was in grade school. It was the first thing I asked her about when we spoke on June 14, 2012. It was a puckish start to a conversation that considered what it would be like to… Read More »
Rodriguez & Malik Bendjalloul — SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN
The story behind SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN is a textbook definition of truth being stranger that fiction. A Mexican-American singer/songwriter with a social conscious and a unique definition of success inspires a generation of South Africans to rebel against Apartheid with his music. The twist, he has no idea he’s famous there, and his fans… Read More »
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