Female Filmmakers in Focus: Perpetrator | Interviews
adminShe actually brought a lot of her own clothes. She has some great Christian Siriano kind of structured black dresses, and we had talked about that. It made the wardrobe…
Dan Callahan on His New Book, Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra | Interviews
There’s also a live concert she did in Germany in 1954 where she sings “I Cover the Waterfront” with Carl Drinkard on piano, and it’s Billie at her best. When…
I Can’t Believe I’m Making This Movie: Josh Greenbaum on Strays | Interviews
So that’s really what pulled me in from the get-go on this script. Yes, it’s a fun, outrageous R-rated talking dog movie. Still, it’s also a metaphor for being in…
Extremely Grotesque: Park Chan-wook on Oldboy | Interviews
Revenge is a very classical and mythological story subject. So is incest. Because I’d already dealt with the division of the Korean peninsula in “Joint Security Area (JSA)” and class…
Touched the Fire: Morrisa Maltz & Lily Gladstone on The Unknown Country | Interviews
So there were these elements and even more so, going back to Morrisa’s experience knowing that feeling, which is so real and authentic, that it’s taken four years after launching…
To Return to Innocence From the Other Side: Christian Petzold on Afire | Interviews
This was, for me, the start of “Afire,” thinking to myself, “What happened there?” The Americans, the French, and the Swedish—like Ingmar Bergman, with “Summer with Monika”—all have summer movies,…
Laugh-In Creator George Schlatter Socks it To Me with New Memoir | Interviews
This is Show Business with a capital S, capital B (with a little BS thrown in for good measure). Schlatter, 93, spoke with RogerEbert.com about “Laugh-In’s” unexpected success, his eye for talent…
Nicholas Britell Says Goodbye to Succession | Interviews
It propels the rest of the season. It sounds like a forward thrust on a rocket. That was my hope. I recently interviewed Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker, the composers…
A Documentary That Feels Like an ’80s Movie: Davis Guggenheim on STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie | Interviews
At the beginning of the documentary, we see Michael J. Fox walking on a Manhattan sidewalk with his physical therapist who reminds him that when he gets stuck due to…
A True Marriage of Picture and Music: Benjamin Millepied on Carmen | Interviews
I really like the creative choice of seeing the band in the background of the frame for a diegetic feel. What was the decision-making behind that choice? We felt that…