Set in a world where wishes are granted by mythical beings underneath fountains, an apathetic wish granter is forced to go above ground to grant a wish of love.
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January 2022
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW WILL HOST AWARDS GALA ON TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022
Annual Gala will Celebrate the 2021 National Board of Review Honorees New York, NY (January 20, 2022) – The National Board of Review has announced that their 2022 Awards Gala will now be held on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 in New York City. The 2021 awards continue the NBR’s tradition of recognizing excellence in filmmaking, […]
December 2020
Q&A with Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer
The people you speak with are so engaging, and so sincere. How well did you know them before you started shooting?
Clive Oppenheimer: I only knew Simon Schaffer, who is a historian of science in Cambridge.
January 2023
Q&A with Tony Kusher, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, and Gabriel LaBelle
Can you talk about the origins of this project?
Tony Kushner: Steven told me the story that’s the core of the movie on the first day of filming Munich, in 2005, in Malta.
October 2019
Q&A with Tim Seelig
Were you the one who conceived of this tour in the first place?
Tim Seelig: We were coming out of the 40th anniversary of the gay men’s chorus. San Fransisco Gay Men’s Chorus birthed the movement.
June 2021
Q&A with Theo Anthony
Can you talk about that decision, and how you thought about the various meta elements of the project?
Theo Anthony: That idea of accounting for the act of observation in observing is something that I’ve always been drawn to, as a big science nerd!
April 2022
Q&A with Simon Rex
What were your first thoughts, after reading the script?
Simon Rex: I was just like… whoa. Whoa. WHOA!
July 2016
Q&A with Simon Pegg and Karl Urban
For a summer blockbuster, this film has some really nice, quiet character moments.
I don’t think you can watch a film that is full of explosions and care about it if you don’t have some care about the people that it is happening to.
May 2016
Q&A with Richard Linklater, Wyatt Russell, Blake Jenner, and Tyler Hoechlin
You said that your biggest talent was in the casting of the film.
Linklater: I think the movie speaks for itself in that way.
April 2021
Q&A with Oliver Hermanus
What was your experience working with the author of the memoir on which the film is based?
Oliver Hermanus: The first thing I did, when I was certain I would tackle it, was I met with [author Andre Carl van der Merwe] a few times.
August 2020
Q&A with Kris Rey and Gillian Jacobs
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of I Used to Go Here. What was the inspiration for the film? Kris Rey: I found the inspiration for the movie when I was on tour with my last film [Unexpected] four years ago. I got invited to a bunch […]
April 2018
Q&A with John Krasinski
How did you get on this project? How did it come to you?
John Krasinski: So I was about to start pre-production on Jack Ryan, and some of the producers on Jack Ryan were Platinum Dunes, and they said, “Would you ever act in a genre movie?” And I said, “Oh no, I can’t do that, I don’t do horror movies.”
May 2018
Q&A with Jason Reitman, Charlize Theron, Ron Livingston, and Mackenzie Davis
How did you go about conceiving two characters who would ultimately converge?
Jason Reitman: I always thought of the movie as being like those lenticular posters, where if you look at the poster and you kind of move your head two inches, the image changes.