Can you talk about making the transition from athletics to a visual and creative artist?
Savanah Leaf: In a way, I think a film is this combination of working in a team environment.
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February 2023
Q&A with Sarah Polley, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Ben Whishaw, Rooney Mara, and Dede Gardner
Can you describe your approach to adapting the novel, and to making the story so cinematic?
Sarah Polley: I think I always thought of the story as somewhat of an epic.
December 2013
Q&A with Justin Chadwick, Anant Singh, Idris Elba, and Naomie Harris
Would you have made the film any other way, looking back?
Having been in this industry for a long time, trying to get movies made is very challenging under any circumstances.
July 2020
Q&A with Josephine Decker and Elisabeth Moss
Josephine, can you speak a bit about that rehearsal process?
When I was going into it, I thought we needed three weeks of rehearsal. Of course, we had like a day and a half!
April 2022
Q&A with Eskil Vogt
This is a very adult film about children and childhood. What were your inspirations for the story?
Eskil Vogt: I think I never would have made this movie if I hadn’t become a parent.
February 2021
Q&A with Emerald Fennell and Carey Mulligan
How did the idea for script originate?
Emerald Fennell: I had a few friends over for dinner and something uncomfortable had happened to one of the girls at the table on the tube on her way over.
April 2016
Q&A with Don Cheadle and Emayatzy Corinealdi
This is not a typical biopic in that you mainly focus on the darkest period of his life. Why did you choose that window?
Don Cheadle: He just shut down his music for five years. I thought, what’s happening there?
June 2018
Q&A with Claire Danes, Octavia Spencer, Daniel Pearle, and Silas Howard
How did you end up bringing it to the screen?
Daniel Pearle: Jim Parsons read the play and he had just started his company, That’s Wonderful.
September 2022
Q&A with Brett Morgen
This film was created with something of a new genre in mind: the “IMAX music experience.” Can you talk about that decision?
Brett Morgen: I have been doing biographical documentaries for the past twenty years. And when I finished Montage of Heck, I just… kind of feel like, for music documentaries… I love these speakers [gesturing around the theater]. I don’t think facts need to be delivered through these speakers!
January 2025
Q&A with Jon M. Chu, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Marc Platt
Can you talk about the decision to set the film in 2013, and why that specific year was the right choice for this story?
Austin Peters: If you think about where we, as a country, were at in 2013… It was such a different time.
December 2022
NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW ANNOUNCES 2022 AWARD WINNERS
New York, NY (December 8, 2022) – The National Board of Review announced today their 2022 honorees