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'Ram' Dipping: Darren Aronofsky & Marisa Tomei on The Wrestler
By Jeffrey M. AndersonDarren Aronofsky, the director of mind-benders like Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000) and The Fountain (2006), and Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei, of My Cousin Vinny (1992), In the...
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Gonzalo Arijon: "It's About Miracles"
By David D'Arcy"Because the story has already been told in Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, the 1974 best seller by Piers Paul Read, and retold in its 1993 screen adaptation starring Ethan...
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Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
By Kevin B. Lee and Keith UhlichJohn Gianvito spent much of the '90s burning through credit cards to produce and direct The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein, a multi-layered critique of the First Iraq...
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Having a Spring Breakdown with Jane Lynch and Ryan Shiraki
By John Esther What is a Sundance Film Festival without a Parker Posey movie? This year the unofficial Queen of Sundance starred in writer-director Ryan Shiraki's Spring Breakdown, about three women...
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Ari Folman: "Animation, or Not at All"
By David D'Arcy"Waltz With Bashir is a memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film," writes AO Scott in the New York Times. "Directed...
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Inteview: Kathryn Bigelow on The Hurt Locker
by Jeffrey M. AndersonIn the great tradition of tough-guy filmmakers like Howard Hawks, Don Siegel and Samuel Fuller, Kathryn Bigelow is one of the finest living crafters of male-bonding genre films....
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Jesus Christ, Rock Star: Sion Sono
By Andrew Grant[NB: Sion Sono was in New York last week for the New York Asian Film Festival, promoting his two latest films, Love Exposure and Be Sure to Share. I had a chance to sit down with him and...
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Laurent Cantet: "The Classroom is a Place for Democracy"
By Jonathan Marlow"The tendency of cinema now is to be more and more connected to reality. If you look at the selection of films at the Cannes Film Festival this year, it was obvious. I think it is...
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Podcast: JULIA (Erick Zonca)
Julia Directed by Erick Zonca 2008, 144 Minutes, In English and SpanishHow did The Dreamlife of Angels director Erick Zonca, working from a script he cowrote with Aude Py, think that the typically...
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Michael Stuhlbarg is A Serious Man But not too serious.
By Jeffrey M. Anderson The major talking point about the CoenBrothers' new film A Serious Man seems to be that it has "no stars," or is comprised of a cast of mostly unknowns. The leader of this...
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INTERVIEW: In "Adoration" of Atom Egoyan
By John EstherThe New York Times'Stephen Holden certainly adored Adoration: "A profound and provocative exploration of cultural inheritance, communications technology and the roots and morality of...
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Plucky 'Broncos': Jared and Jerusha Hess on Gentlemen Broncos
By Jeffrey M. AndersonJared Hess, 30, and Jerusha Hess, 29, met in film class at Brigham Young University and together wrote a little independent movie called Napoleon Dynamite, which Jared directed....
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Interview: Lisa Cholodenko is All Right
by Jeffrey M. Anderson Lisa Cholodenko's well-received 1998 debut High Art was a major landmark for lesbian filmmaking in the '90s, even if the writer-director makes films more to please herself than...
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Tom McCarthy: Win Winning
By Jeffrey M. AndersonThough the multitalented Tom McCarthy, 45, made his acting debut in Mike Binder's Crossing the Bridge (1992), the nineties gave him very little follow-up work. But in the 2000s...
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Ken Bowser on Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
By Kathy HarrCamus said, "Yes, there is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever the difficulties the enterprise may present, I would like never to be unfaithful either to one or the other."That...
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