Three Thousand Years of Longing: Director George Miller on Making his Fantasy Feature
There’s always a subtle PTSD from every film that you do. There’s always scar tissue you have to manage no matter what you’re going into next.
Close: Director Lukas (Girl) Dhont on Pressures of Making Second Film, Exploring Friendship
I hope that we are in a positive evolution when we talk about masculinity, allowing fragility and vulnerability, allowing men to depend on each other.
Top Gun: Maverick–Jennifer Connelly on Playing Tom Cruise Love Interest
I had never even met Tom Cruise before. He’s so exceptional. Spending time with him, you understand how someone has been such a movie star for so many years.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Director Sam Raimi
“My job this time was really to recognize where the continuing Marvel universe had been, understand the characters of Wanda and Doctor Strange and what was relevant to them as we last saw them,” says the filmmaker.
Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The: Filmmakers on How to Get Nicolas Cage to Star in Movie About Nicolas Cage
There’s authenticity, and he feels like a person who just does what he wants without regard to how it’s going to be received. And that’s a very difficult thing to do.
Northman, The: Robert (The Lihghthouse) Eggers on Directing Nude Battle Scene and Managing Epic Production
We had to add things digitally because they were wearing thongs instead of being naked because no one wanted to get their bits chopped off–Robert Egger
Ticket to Paradise: Julia Roberts Return to Rom-Com after Decades of Absence from Genre (Co-Starring George Clooney)
“If I had read something that I thought was that Notting Hill level of writing or My Best Friend’s Wedding level of madcap fun, I would do it. They didn’t exist until this movie that I just did that Ol Parker wrote and directed.”
Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: Nicolas Cage Back on Playing Himself Playing Himself in the Comedy
It’s sort of a warts-and-all performance where he can present a version of himself that’s down and out, and that’s tough to do.
Cannes Film Fest 2022: Artistic Director Thierry Fremaux on the Milestone 75th Edition
Cannes Director Thierry Fremaux Discusses Milestone 2022 Edition AP With just a week to go before Cannes’ Official Selection is unveiled–on April 14–festival director Thierry Fremaux took break from watching movies to talk about the preparations for this year’s milestone 75th edition. Although the festival has already confirmed the world premieres of Top Gun: Maverick […]
20th Centry Women: Director Mike Mills on Growing Up, Listening to Women, Solitary Nature of Writing, and Other Issues
Mike Mills Grapples With His Mother’s Ghost’ In ’20th Century Women’ Annette Bening and Lucas Jade Zumann play a mother and son in Mike Mills’ film, 20th Century Women. Mills says the film was inspired by his own life. Ever since he was a kid, director Mike Mills has yearned to understand his mother. Mills, who […]
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