Greta Gerwig is flirting with danger. The Sacramento-born actress is at real risk of losing her cult status. In six years, she’s gone from making small-budgeted arthouse fare — like Hannah Takes the Stairs and Baghead — to breakout stardom, co-starring with A-listers Ben Stiller, Russell Brand and Ashton Kutcher, and being directed by legends like Woody Allen.
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 …
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 …
A JONES FOR SCI-FI | THE DUNCAN JONES INTERVIEW
In Source Code, Jake Gyllenhaal is a soldier who tries to prevent a horrific event by reliving it several times in an eight-minute block of time. It must have been quite a puzzle to make …
NO LIMIT | THE NEIL BURGER INTERVIEW
What was your initial reaction when you got the script for Limitless [a.k.a. Dark Fields] from Leslie Dixon, a writer who’s primarily known for broad comedies? I just read the script and I liked it. …
DREAMWEAVER | THE KEVIN SPACEY INTERVIEW
Kevin Spacey has no shortage of mainstream bona fides. But even though he has starred in dozens of major Hollywood movies, achieved the highest levels of professional success — including Oscars for his performances in …
BREAKING BIG | THE AARON PAUL INTERVIEW
If the opportunity to play a wide range of characters is an actor’s dream, then Aaron Paul may be the envy of every young actor in Hollywood. After all, the easygoing Idaho native has spent …