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Penelope Cruz on Almodovar and 'Broken Embraces'new

“The first time I worked with him, I was a whore giving birth in a bus. Then, a nun that gets pregnant from a transvestite. Every time I have my moment of ‘Really, isn’t this going to be too much? How are we going to make this believable?’ And then, he does it. Every single time.”

Montreal Mirror | Mark Slutsky | 12-18-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodóvar, Penelope Cruz

Brett Gaylor's Documentary Takes on Copyright Lawnew

RIP: Remix Manifesto uses concert footage, animation, multimedia collages and interviews to illuminate both the nuances of the debate over copyright law and how it impacts art, science and life in the 21st century and beyond.

Montreal Mirror | Mark Slutsky | 10-17-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: peer-to-peer, copyright, documentary, mash-ups, sampling, Brett Gaylor, RIP: Remix Manifesto

Matt Wolf on His Documentary About Avant-Garde Pioneer and Disco Legend Arthur Russellnew

In Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, Wolf revisits Russell's life through intimate interviews with longtime boyfriend Tom Lee and Russell's parents, archival footage and, of course, the music itself.

Montreal Mirror | Mark Slutsky | 10-06-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: documentary, Arthur Russell, Matt Wolf, Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Nothing's Sacred for Bill Maher and Larry Charlesnew

Maher and Charles discuss fundamentalism, the apocalypse, and their new faith-challenging doc, Religulous.

Montreal Mirror | Mark Slutsky | 09-26-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: religion, documentary, Larry Charles, Religulous, Bill Maher

Thai Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Film and Censorshipnew

Thailand's board of censors demanded that four scenes -- which apparently portrayed doctors and monks in a disrespectful light -- be cut from Syndromes and a Century, and Weerasethakul refused, which meant that the film could not legally be shown.

Montreal Mirror | Mark Slutsky | 06-13-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Syndromes and a Century, Thailand, censorship

Hated Director Uwe Boll Takes on His Criticsnew

Speaking to the Mirror from Vancouver, he delivered an uninterrupted five-minute monologue touching on why nobody in Chicago wanted to interview him and he had to fly home after the screening, neo-Nazis, why Alone in the Dark was just as good as Elektra, why Paul Haggis' Crash is "pathetic," and how Postal is an incisive indictment of America.

Montreal Mirror | Mark Slutsky | 05-30-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Uwe Boll, Postal

Garth Jennings & Nick Goldsmith on Their Affectionate Tribute to '80s Action Moviesnew

Much like Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind, Son of Rambow is the story of a group of inspired amateurs competing with Hollywood on a shoestring. It's a sweet and frequently hilarious film that overflows with the spirit of childhood derring-do.

Montreal Mirror | Mark Slutsky | 05-09-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Garth Jennings, Son of Rambow