Interview: Father and Son Sebastian and Salvo Maniscalco on Making About My Father, Meeting “Bob” De Niro and the Chicago Work Ethic
Sometime during 2006, I was asked to moderate a couple Q&A screenings of the documentary Wild West Comedy Show: 30…
Interview: Filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh on Making Kandahar with Gerard Butler, War Movies as Character Studies and a Greenland Sequel
Director Ric Roman Waugh had nearly 50 projects under his belt as a stuntman and stunt coordinator before turning to…
Interview: Filmmaker Kelly Fremon Craig on Coming-of-Age Stories, Adapting a Beloved Novel and the Universality of Adolescence
Armed with an English degree from UC Irvine, Kelly Fremon Craig began her Hollywood career as a writer, penning the…
Interview: Documentarian Davis Guggenheim on Still, Crafting a Film from a Life on Screen, and Collaborating with Michael J. Fox
After quite a few years of directing episodic television (including a multi-episode run on HBO’s Deadwood), director Davis Guggenheim turned…
Interview: Filmmaker Jalmari Helander on Bringing Sisu to the Screen, the Influence of Sergio Leone and “The More, The Better”
With his latest feature, Sisu, Finnish-born writer-director Jalmari Helander finally got to shoot Finland for Finland, having shot Norway for…
Interview: Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt on Showing Up—the Film, and for the Work of Making, Sharing Art
If the films of Kelly Reichardt have a binding theme, it’s that her works are populated by characters in search…
Interview: Zach Braff on Writing A Good Person for Florence Pugh, Casting Morgan Freeman and Processing Tremendous Grief
New Jersey-born, Northwestern-educated (with a degree in film) Zach Braff is probably known by many for his comedic acting in…
Interview: Lena Olin and Tora Hallström on Hilma, Playing the Same Character, Speaking with Spirits and Finding the Science in Art
When filmmaker Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) prepares to release a new film, people…
Interview: Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors on Creed III, Excavating the Past, and the Film’s Anime Inspirations
Sometimes you get advanced notice on an interview that gives you weeks to prepare and fine-tune your questions; sometimes, you…
Interview: Spouses and Creative Collaborators Dave Franco and Alison Brie on Somebody I Used to Know, Coming-of-Age Films and the Freedom in Streaking
I have a long history with Dave Franco that goes back to a time when I was invited to visit…
Interview: Filmmaker Lukas Dhont on Making Close, with First-Time Actors and a Deeply Personal Story
Editor’s Note: this interview contains mild spoilers and includes discussion of suicide. Regardless of how the film may have ultimately…
Interview: Filmmaker Jason Eisener on Kids vs. Aliens, Alien Creature Design and All That Slime
In 2007, writer/director/editor Jason Eisener won a contest for directing the best grindhouse trailer for the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino collaboration…
