AltWeeklies Wire
Harmony Korine's Waynew
The director on flying nuns and his Mexican Michael Jackson.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
05-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mister Lonely, Harmony Korine
'Jellyfish''s Etgar Keret: The Wizard of Idnew
Writer/director shoots from the hip about his low-budget movie and his high-budget life.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
04-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Olivier Assayas on Getting Carried Awaynew
For Boarding Gate, Assayas chose Hong Kong as Sandra's final destination, as a way of shooting in -- and paying homage to -- the city that has influenced his own filmmaking.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
03-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Boarding Gate, Olivier Assayas
Michael Haneke Will Be Your Mirrornew
Don't blame him if you don't like what you see.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
03-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Funny Games, Michael Haneke
Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinventionnew
Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
03-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Stefan Ruzowitzky Challenges Holocaust Dogmanew
Rather than the nobly suffering merchants, artists and family men who fill the barracks of many a Holocaust drama, the counterfeiters of The Counterfeiters are a motley crew of scam artists and petty thugs under the supervision of the wily Russian-Jewish forger Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
02-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Blood, Sweat and Tearsnew
There Will be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson on making his masterpiece, and how baseball may have saved him.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
01-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Way He Lives Nownew
As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies' most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Clint Eastwood: The Set Whisperernew
Shooting quietly on the Changeling set.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Clint Eastwood, Changeling
Juan Antonio Bayona: Refinding Neverlandnew
A conversation with The Orphanage's master of melancholic terror.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
James Marsden: Low Profile and Loving Itnew
"I'm more comfortable with the bar set low," he says with a flash of his milky-white smile. "If expectations are low, you can only impress people."
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tamara Jenkins Keeps It Realnew
Coming almost 10 years after Slums of Beverly Hills, her new movie, The Savages, mines a difficult time in Jenkins' early 30s, when she saw both her grandmother and her father succumb to senility.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
'Redacted' Never Flinches From the Casualties of Warnew
Brian De Palma is angry, about the war in Iraq and about the fact that his Iraq movie, Redacted, has fallen victim to the very censorship it is, in part, a reaction against.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Brian De Palma, Redacted
Michael Haneke Over Americanew
Some great directors begin in TV, like Austrian Michael Haneke. Eight of his TV films have been subtitled into English and are touring North America for the first time as part of the Boston University – curated retrospective "Michael Haneke: A Cinema of Provocation."
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Haneke
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
