Tallulah: Writer-Director Sian Heder on her Feature, Starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney (Women in Film)

Writer and director Sian Heder’s new film Tallulah explores the concept of motherhood.  It will be available on Netflix July 29. Ellen Page stars as the free-spirited Tallulah and Allison Janney plays Morgan, the mother of Tallulah’s boyfriend. The film follows its titular character in a haphazard effort to rescue a neglected baby and convince Morgan that it’s her […]

Florence Foster Jenkins: Meryl Streep Discusses New Movie, Career, Family

Preparing for this Biopicture?                 Meryl Streep: It is based on a real person.  The reason that Florence Foster Jenkins was so popular in her day and caused such a sensation, was not that she just sang badly, because we have people in our family who sing badly […]

Oscar Directors: Lee, Ang–Filmmaker Discusses Career Highs and Lows

To me, film is really all about faces. At times, an image or technology will impress me, but then it’s always faces first–Ang Lee

Whatever Happened, Miss Simone? Liz Garbuz Docu of Legendary Singer and Political Actvist

Nina, the biopic that Cynthia Mort wrote and directed, is a terrible movie in every sense of the term: simplistic instead of complex, full of clichés instead if being grounded in reality, trivial instead of being significant. It just happened that last year, the respectable documentarian, Lis Garbus, has made a documentary about the subject, […]

It’s Only the End of the World: Xavier Dolan Says, It’s My Best Film

I’m happy to be in Cannes with these people whom I love and this film, which I considered to be my best–Xavier Dolan