Citizenfour: Interview with Director Poitras

“He still doesn’t want to be the story, and I understand that as well, but I think he also feels it is important that people understand what happened in the hotel room–Laura Poitras

Wild Tales: Argentinean Oscar Entry–Interview with Director Damián Szifron

These tales sprang from the most unrestrained corners of the imagination. While I was working to develop other projects–dispirited by the fact that they were impossible to realize–I began writing short stories to vent my frustrations–Damián Szifron

Birdman: Interview with Star Michael Keaton

former staple of hit 1980s comedies, from Mr. Mom to Beetlejuice and (one-time) controversial star of Tim Burton‘s Batman and Batman Returns, Michael Keaton is on the cusp of a career rejuvenation after his turn as the lead in Fox Searchlight’s Oscar contender Birdman, which opens on Oct. 17. The outlandishly bizarre dramedy — about a […]

Exodus: Gods and Kings: (2014): Christian Bale as Moses in Ridley Scott’s Epic

You can’t out-Heston Charlton Heston, our Moses is a troubled and tumultuous man–Christian Bale

Men, Women & Children: Interview with Director Jason Reitman

“Men, Women & Children” looks at concurrent and often intersecting events in the lives of seven families which meant fourteen principal characters from two generations – the parents and their children.  Early on, Reitman had several adult actors in mind, performers who could inhabit and embrace the film’s unvarnished, occasionally awkward, often funny and embarrassing […]