You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. Yes, it’s a cliché, but not without reason. After all, with filmmakers, the debut feature can set the tone for an entire career. …
IMMORTAL BELOVED
Randy Brown • screenwriter • Trouble with the Curve “Stanley Kubrick had the rare ability to take familiar themes and characters and paint them fresh, as if seen for the first time. Full Metal Jacket …
LEON VITALI ON KUBRICK’S DEFINING MOMENTS
I acted in two of his films — Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut — and also worked as his assistant. My work across the board covered everything from casting to coaching actors; from layouts to lab work; from …
THE GREAT ESCAPE | THE BEN FOSTER INTERVIEW
Not many people from farm country – or anywhere else, of that matter – are practicing Transcendental Meditation by the time they’re in kindergarten, but Ben Foster, pride of Fairfield, Iowa, was at it at …
INTO THE WOODS | THE WOODY HARRELSON INTERVIEW
For a guy who says things like “I don’t like working at all,” Woody Harrelson sure works a lot. Sorry, Woody, but no “world-class slacker” (his words again) makes more than forty movies in twenty-five years. …
ARTISTIC LICENSE | THE BERENICE BEJO INTERVIEW
The Artist has won the Audience Award at the Austin, Chicago, Hamptons and San Sebastian film festivals. Why do you think the film is connecting with filmgoers? I don’t know. Maybe because it tells you …
TRUE BELIEVER | THE VERA FARMIGA INTERVIEW
Lots of performers try their hand at directing, but seldom with material as challenging as Vera Farmiga faced with her directorial debut, Higher Ground. The film is the wrenching chronicle of a devoted Christian who …
ISN’T IT IRONIC
With the ledgers closed and audiences back to fall pursuits, the past four months can clearly be called the Summer of the Sequel. Of the ten highest-grossing films released between May and August, seven …
THE ROAD WARRIOR | THE ERIC BANA INTERVIEW
If you were a movie fan who caught Eric Bana opposite Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen in Funny People, and knew nothing of his background, you may have been surprised and impressed. Surprised (pleasantly, let’s …