PARIAH began life as a feature-length script that was made into a short film. Unwilling to let that be the end of her project, writer/director Dee Rees kept working until the funding came through so that she could make her film her way. When I spoke to her on October 11, 2011, the conversation covered that… Read More »
Michel Hazanavicius is THE ARTIST
Michel Hazanavicius enjoys evoking bygone cinematic eras, as in his spy spoof set in the 1950s, OSS 117 – NEST OF SPIES. When he decided the time was right to make THE ARTIST, a silent film, the first person he had to convince about the viability of his idea was himself. When I spoke to him on… Read More »
Tim Heidecker & Eric Westehim & TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim take their comedy very seriously, as befits two guys who started out as artists and filmmakers rather than sketch artists. At least, that’s how they explain it. When I spoke to them on February 7, 2012, the conversation included the allure of the shopping mall as a stage for their… 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 »
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 »
Chris Pine & Alex Kurtzman Introduce Us to PEOPLE LIKE US
PEOPLE LIKE US star Chris Pine and co-writer/director Alex Kurtzman had collaborated before on the STAR TREK reboot, a project that dazzled with special effects. When I spoke with them on June 6,2012, and the first thing I wanted know was if it was the lack of special effects in PEOPLE that attracted the pair to… Read More »
Jamie Travis & Katie Anne Naylon Say FOR A GOOD TIME CALL . . .
Katie Anne Naylon co-wrote the script for FOR A GOOD TIME CALL… with her real-life best friend, Lauren Miller. While Miller plays the character of Lauren in the film, Naylon demurred, preferring to let Ari Graynor play the part based on Naylon herself. It was one of the first things I asked about when I… Read More »
Stephen Chbosky Describes THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
Stephen Chbosky is a patient man. He could have sold the rights to make THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER when he first published that novel in 1999. Instead, he waited until he could not only write the script himself, but also direct. When I spoke with him on August 24, 2012, the first thing… Read More »
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and LOOPER
When I spoke with Joseph Gordon-Levitt on September 12, 2012, it wasn’t with his latest film, Rian Johnson’s LOOPER, that I wanted to start. Instead, I was curious about why he had flown to thousands of miles in order to make a cameo of only a few seconds in Johnson’s second film, THE BROTHERS BLOOM. The… Read More »
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