The story concerns a family on holiday that witnesses an avalanche and the father runs away, terrified. When it is over, he is ashamed because he has succumbed to his primal fear.
Stray Dog: Interview with Debra Granik
September 29, 2014 by
The film is also about a Midwestern workingman negotiating the convulsions of our times–gun culture, unemployment and underemployment in recession-era America–Director Granick.
Movie Audiences: Fincher Says Studios Treat Audiences like Cattle
September 16, 2014 by
Studios treat audiences like lemmings, like cattle in a stockyard–David Fincher to Playboy Magazine
Pawn Sacrifice: Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fisher
September 9, 2014 by
For Tobey Maguire, it was a 10-year-journey to get his drama about chess player Bobby Fischer on the big screen. After false starts, he finally secured enough financing for the $16 million picture, “Pawn Sacrifice,” which premieres at Toronto on Thursday night. Director Edward Zwick shot the film in 40 days in Montreal last fall. Tobey […]
Cake (2014): Interview with Jennifer Aniston
September 8, 2014 by
Jennifer Aniston says her performance in new drama “Cake” was physically and emotionally tough, but it was “beyond a dream role.” Co-starring Anna Kendrick and Sam Worthington, the indie drama finds the actress playing a character who is in massive chronic pain, who’s addicted to pills and booze and who has alienated everyone in her […]
