Eternals: Director Chloé Zhao Explains How She Got Superman in the MCU
Courtesy of DC; Marvel Studios A pop-culture reference in a Marvel Studios movie is usually as common as a form-fitting unitard. But when Disney released a featurette last week for Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, in which a child refers to the Eternal named Ikaris (Richard Madden) as “Superman,” the moment launched dozens of deep-dive […]
Lamb: Director Valdimar Jóhannsson on Fan Pregnancy Theories and Potential Sequel (Cannes Fest Winner)
To direct your first feature, you have to be into everything. It’s such a privilege to make a film. It was a complicated script that could have been a disaster had it not worked–Valdimar Jóhannsson
emanuellevy.com/review/lamb-noomi-rapace-stars-in-icelandic-horror-film-cannes-film-fest-2021-certain-regard/JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass—Oscar Winner Oliver Stone’s New Inflammatory Political Documentary
Cannes Film Fest 2021 (World Premiere) “The U.S. blockade of Cuba and the Cold War with the Soviet Union could have both ended in 1963 had President John Fitzgerald Kennedy not been assassinated,” controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone say in a recent interview. Stone spoke about those inflammatory events of the Kennedy assassination at the 2021 […]
Power of the Dog, The: Jane Campion
Television was where you had your freedom. You could really almost do anything. Nobody would shut you down. Discuss any topic, be as crazy as you want. It was fantastic for that. Cinema is a lot more conservative.
Card Counter, The: Tye Sheridan–Next Big Thing
Tye Sheridan was an 11-year-old kid from Texas when he was cast in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, an experience he compares to “summer camp.” He wasn’t expected to learn lines or even give a performance, but Malick’s set put him on a trajectory towards Jeff Nichols’ Mud and David Gordon Green’s Joe, which cemented his decision to become an actor.
Mainstream: Gia Coppola on her Venice Fest Film and Social Media
Venice: Gia Coppola on Her “Satirical Fable” ‘Mainstream’ and the Perils of Social Media Inset: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff, and Andrew Garfield star as outsiders who become unlikely social media celebrities in Coppola’s follow-up to her critically-acclaimed debut ‘Palo Alto.’ It took Gia Coppola a while to join the family business. The […]
A Hero: Asghar Farhadi’s Fable for the Cancel Culture Age
When Farhadi was last nominated, he declined to attend the Oscar ceremony in protest of the just-passed Trump travel ban, which prohibited most visitors from Muslim countries, including Iran, from coming to the U.S.
Promises: French Icon Isabelle Huppert, Star of Thomas Kruithof’s Political Thriller (Venice Fest 2021)
Isabelle Huppert on “showing ambition and malevolence” on screen
Zeros and Ones: Ferrara on his Locarno Fest Winner, a Ethan Hawke Pandemic Thriller
I’ve lived in Rome for 7 years, I know the effect the pandemic has had on that neighborhood. These are real people from that neighborhood in the movie. That’s how I shoot–Abel Ferrara
Annette: Interview with Cult Filmmaker Leos Carax–Winner of Best Director (Cannes Film Fest 2021)
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