Matyas Erdely is the Hungarian cinematographer behind two interesting films this season, Mond’s James White, which stars Christopher Abbott as a troubled New Yorker whose casual attitude to life is challenged when death and illness intrude. Making its debut in January at Sundance, where it won the audience award in Next series, Mond’s film played at […]
Big Short: Interview With Writer-Director Adam McKay
November 20, 2015 by
“I started reading the book at around 10:30 at night and thought, ‘I’ll just read 40 pages,’” director Adam McKay recalls. “I couldn’t put it down. I ended up reading the whole thing that night and finished at six in the morning. The next day I told my wife about the characters and how the […]
Lobster, The: Interview with Director Yorgos Lanthimos
November 17, 2015 by
The Lobster, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, won the Jury Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Fest. In 2009, Lanthimos had a great breakthrough at Cannes winning with “Dogtooth,” a film that also won the Bronze Horse at the Stockholm Film Fest and was then nominated for a foreign-language Oscar. The Lobster is his first film in […]
Room: How Director Abrahamson Coaxed Oscar-Caliber Prformance from Jacob Tremblay, Age 7
November 15, 2015 by
In Room, a harrowing tale about a woman kept in captivity for years who ends up pregnant with her kidnapper’s child, Irish director Lenny Abrahamson was facing a major dilemma of how to make the boy scream. The young actor, Jacob Tremblay, then 7, was supposed to be yelling at his mother — Ma, played […]
Spotlight: Interview with Director Tom McCarthy on his Investigative Journalism Drama
November 11, 2015 by
Tom McCarthy talks about the making of his fact-based journalistic drama, which is gaining strong awards buzz in the upcoming Oscar race.
