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Interview: David Lowery of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Gaining experience and sharpening his skills as an editor and member of the tight Texas filmmaking community, upstart indie director David Lowery is a student of the game. In his sophomore directorial effort, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Casey Affleck...
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Interview: Lake Bell of In a World
In Lake Bell’s (Childrens Hospital, No Strings Attached) directorial debut, In a World, she examines the complex relationships of a group of people involved in the ultra-exclusive world of voice acting. Bell sat with us to talk about why...
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Interview: Joshua Michael Stern of jOBS
The inevitable first wave of Steve Jobs movies is upon us, and it’s no surprise so many studios and filmmakers are salivating at getting their version of his story projected on screens across the world; Steve Jobs is one...
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Interview: Neil Drumming of Big Words
For years, Neil Drumming was a successful journalist, most notably writing for Entertainment Weekly. Now, he’s jumped to the world of film. Set in Brooklyn on the night of Barack Obama’s first election, Drumming’s directorial debut, Big Words, is...
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Interview: Ziad Doueiri of The Attack
Writer-director Ziad Doueiri’s new film, The Attack (which I highly recommend), incurred a tidal wave of Arab anger when it was completed last year. By “tidal wave of Arab anger”, I mean this: the film has been banned in...
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Interview: David Gordon Green of Prince Avalanche
Back in May at the San Francisco International Film Festival, I sat down with director David Gordon Green to talk about his new film, Prince Avalanche, starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. The film—a character study about two road...
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Interview: Anita Monga, Artistic Director of the SF Silent Film Festival
Some of the greatest directors of all time—F.W. Murnau, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, and Carl Dreyer, to name a few—thrived in the silent era, and the best directors of today constantly refer to their work for inspiration and guidance....
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Interview: Michael Cera and Sebastian Silva of Crystal Fairy
While stoned at a party in Chile, Jamie (Michael Cera), a boorish American asshole, invites a cosmo-tripping hippy named Crystal Fairy (Gaby Hoffman) on a quest with his friends to obtain San Pedro—a “magical” cactus—and imbibe the mescaline-rich plant....
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Interview: Mark Lobatto of Silent Treatment
Sat in Granary Square in central London (just a few minutes away from Kings Cross/St Pancras Station) I meet with Director Mark Lobatto to discuss his recent short film Silent Treatment. Silent Treatment is a “boy meets girl story...
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Interview: Ryan Coogler of Fruitvale Station
At 22 years old, Oscar Grant was shot and killed at the Fruitvale BART Station by an Oakland police officer on New Year’s Day 2009. The incident was captured on video and the unsettling footage subsequently went viral, making...
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Interview: Melonie Diaz of Fruitvale Station
We spoke to star Melonie Diaz (Be Kind Rewind, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints), who plays Sophina Mesa, Oscar’s real-life girlfriend, in a tiny roundtable interview the day after the film’s premiere in Oakland. She talked with us...
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Interview: Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer of Fruitvale Station
We spoke to Michael B. Jordan (The Wire, Friday Night Lights), who plays Oscar in the film, and Octavia Spencer (The Help) who plays Oscar’s mother, Wanda Grant, in a tiny roundtable interview the day after the film’s premiere...
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Interview: Ahna O’Reilly of Fruitvale Station
We spoke to Ahna O’Reilly (The Help) who plays Katie, a girl who meets Oscar by chance, shares a pleasant interaction with him, and later becomes a witness to the horrific shooting in a tiny roundtable interview the day...
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Interview: Halley Feiffer and Ryan Spahn of He’s Way More Famous than You
Michael Urie directs Halley Feiffer who plays Halley Feiffer being directed by Michael Urie in He’s Way More Famous than You, a movie about making a movie. Six years after her costarring role in “Noah Baumbach’s cinematic masterpiece” The...
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