4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days: Interview with Romanian Director Cristian Mungiu

Cannes Film Fest 2007–Romanian director Cristian Mungiu discusses the making of his film, which received the Palme d'Or as well as the critics prize from Fipresci, of which I was proudly a member this year.

Hostel Part II: Roth on his Gory Sequel

Women in jeopardy and women in horror are kind of a staple of the genre. In this particular scenario, the girls traveling in Europe feel more vulnerable than the guys did in the first movie. It raises the stakes for the audience–writer-director Roth

Transformers Per Spielberg and Bay

Michael is the perfect director for Transformers. He really had a feel for this material; he had a focused vision for what this franchise could look like as a movie. Michael had all the freedom he needed to breathe life into the humans, the Decepticons and the Autobots–Spielberg

Last Mistress Catherine Breillat

Cannes Film Fest 2007–Like all artists, I laid my foundations in opposition, because when you realize just how much people can hate you for a film, a simple film, it's pretty frightening. I'm not a terrorist. I don't hurt anyone. All my actors like me and I've never betrayed them–Catherine Breillat

Ocean’s Thirteen: Soderbergh Interview

Cannes Film Fest 2007–We were just finishing the second film, and I thought it would be fun to go back to Las Vegas for the next one. In large part, the film was motivated by everyone wanting to work together again. But it was always with the understanding that it had to be ‚Äòall in,‚Äô or we were not doing it-‚Äîeverybody comes back or nobody comes back–Soderbergh