AltWeeklies Wire
Steve Gallucio on 'Surviving My Mother'new
His latest screenplay was originally intended for the stage.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Lee Chang-Dong Lets the Sunshine Innew
South Korean filmmaker illuminates life's emotional twists and turns.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lee Chang-Dong, Secret Sunshine
Seeing the Light with Director Carlos Reygadasnew
Reygadas' third feature, Silent Light, is in some ways his most audacious undertaking yet: a drama of marital and spiritual crisis set in a modern-day Mennonite community on the outskirts of Chihuahua, filmed entirely in the German-derived Plautdeitsch language.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light
Tilda Swinton: The Ice Queen Meltethnew
Though Swinton's career has taken a decided turn for the commercial these days, I still think of her as the intimidating eminence rouge in the elliptically stylized Jarman films that launched her career, or the ornately costumed androgyne in Potter's Orlando, or even the frigid witch in Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Robert Redford and the Facade of a Nationnew
Redford is once again traversing the chasm between the American dream and the American reality in a new film that meets the War on Terror and a grab bag of other sociopolitical issues head-on.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
Actor Sam Riley on Portraying Ian Curtisnew
"He wasn't an idol of mine, so I didn't approach the character with any reverence, really," says Riley, adding that he developed "a lot of respect and admiration for the lyricist and performer I found he was once I started researching him."
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Control, Anton Corbijn
A Deep Sense of Place Inspired 'Disappearances'new
Some time ago, filmmaker Jay Craven decided to make a Western, the kind of story that typically features characters whose epic struggle unfolds in a land devoid of law, tradition, religion, and culture. Here's the catch: he wanted it to take place in New England.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: disappearances, Jay Craven
Director Justin Lin Makes Bruce Lee ... Comedy?new
The Better Luck Tomorrow director creates his first comedy, a mockumentary supposedly unearthed from the '70s about the completion of Bruce Lee's final film Game of Death, completed with rather obvious body doubles when Lee died after only 40 minutes of footage had been shot.
OC Weekly |
Luke Y. Thompson |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Finishing the Game, Justin Lin
Jude Law and Michael Caine on 'Sleuth'new
In an updated version of a modern mystery classic, the two actors duel on-screen as two men who love -- or at least want to possess -- the same woman.
The Georgia Straight |
Mark Leiren-Young |
10-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth
Kevin Bacon Gets the Third Degreenew
The formerly Footloose actor brings home the you-know-what in dramatic fashion.
NOW Magazine |
Barrett Hooper |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alison Eastwood, Rails & Ties
Sidney Lumet's Long Journeynew
The venerable director returns with a devilish thriller.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Playing Down on Her Luck, Amy Ryan's Star Risesnew
"I hope people ask me, 'Where did you find that local actress?,'" Ben Affleck told Amy Ryan when he cast her as a wreck of a single mother in his directing debut, Gone Baby Gone.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
Cristian Mungiu Goes Beyond Abortionnew
"When I sat down to write it, I wasn't setting out to make a film about abortion," the director says of his gritty, Palme d'Or-winning drama.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Veteran New York Director Sidney Lumet Tells it Like it Isnew
Walking a fine line between vintage showbiz insights and contemporary industry know-how, Lumet discusses his latest project, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
10-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Halle Berry Discusses 'Things We Lost in the Fire'new
Berry can say she is back on track to earn her second Oscar nomination for her intimate role in her new film.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
