It began in 2006, when Spielberg asked me to come to his house on a Saturday morning. He said, ‘I really want to make a movie about those terrible riots in Chicago in 1968 at the convention, and then the crazy conspiracy trial that followed.’ I said, ‘that sounds great. I’m in.’
One Night in Miami: Regina King’s Stunning Directing Debut
September 15, 2020 by
What was most important for me is that their perspective of telling of this story would match mine. Because that was the only way to do the film in the amount of time and money that I was given and within budget–Regina King
Cianfrance, Derek: Cinema as Voyeurism
September 12, 2020 by
Toronto: Derek Cianfrance Talks Cinema as Voyeurism: “Every Scene is a Sex Scene” Getty Images “I don’t even like looking at actors with my own eyes when I’m shooting,” the ‘Blue Valentine’ director told a Toronto Fest masterclass. Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine, a close study of a marriage breakup that starred Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, […]
I’m Thinking of Ending Things: Interview with Charlie Kaufman–Loneliness, Alienation, Mortality
August 23, 2020 by
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman’s new film, premieres on Netflix September 4.
First Cow: Kelly Reichardt’s Revisionist Western, Starring John Magarom Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Lily Gladstone
July 30, 2020 by
We had a rule in the film: no beauty shots. There can be no image in the film that’s beautiful for its own sake. Because even if you shoot the West like Wim Wenders does, where you get gas stations and jukeboxes, it’s still romanticized, and it’s still male–Kelly Reichardt.
