In workshop, we did a few sexually oriented closed-set improves but not many. Some actors were immediately comfortable with that, others needed time. Many wanted to save it for the camera. All the orgasms portrayed in the film are real–John Cameron Mitchell.

In 1993, guided by some unseen force of chance, I discovered a book: Battles of Flanders and Artois 1914-1918, by Yves Buffetaut. As I was reading it, I came upon an extraordinary passage entitled ?¢¬Ä¬úThe Incredible Winter of 1914.?¢¬Ä The author wrote about the fraternizing between the enemies, the episode of the German tenor applauded by the French soldiers, a soccer match, the exchange of letters, the Christmas trees, visiting each other's trenches. It really bowled me over.

Based on the best-selling novel by Richard Price, Freedomland is a highly charged and gritty mystery of a carjacking, a missing child and a torn neighborhood.Producer Scott Rudin optioned the film rights to Freedomland, a novel about the investigation of a carjacking, when Price was only about halfway through writing the book.

When Michael Tolkin wrote The Rapture, he hardly thought he was following a trend. This rigorous non-studio movie about a lost woman (Mimi Rogers) who finds happiness (for a time) through discovering God stirred up controversy at the recent Telluride Film Festival.

Antonio Banderas, who's rapidly becoming one of the hottest international sex symbols, stars as the mariachi without a name in Desperado, the eagerly-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed l992 hit, El Mariachi, a movie that “came out of nowhere” and cost practically nothing.