An obscure birth defect left Julian’s eyes highly sensitive to light. Consumed with a fear of the outside world, he receded into the shadows. When he hires Katherine, a short-term assistant, an unexpected friendship blossoms. But his carefully constructed world begins to destabilize when his feelings for her intensify.
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June 2018
Rebooted – Directed by Sagar Arun and Rachel Kral
Owl Guy, a retro comic book superhero, is suddenly introduced to his rebooted counterpart.
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.
November 2020
Q&A with Thomas Bezucha
How did you find the book this film is based on, and what attracted you to adapting it?
Thomas Bezucha: The novel “Let Him Go” was written by Larry Watson, who I’ve been a fan of for well over twenty years.
October 2018
Q&A with Sissy Spacek, David Lowery, and Robert Redford
How did you find this story?
David Lowery: It was a true story about this guy whose life was too good to be true in terms of a narrative.
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.
October 2017
Q&A with Shrabani Basu, Eddie Izzard, Ali Fazal, Judi Dench, and Stephen Frears
Around 2004, you were doing research about curry during Queen Victoria’s time, and it seems you ended up finding much more than expected?
Shrabani Basu: I knew that that Queen Victoria loved her curry and she had so many Indian servants that cooked for her.
October 2015
Q&A with Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, and Ryan Reynolds
What was it about the riverboat casinos in Iowa that compelled you to write this story?
It was really interesting to see the anti-glamorous version of a casino. There was a story in there somewhere that we hadn’t seen on film before.
September 2022
Q&A with Ron Howard and Raymond Phathanavirangoon
What was it like bringing a production of this size to Thailand?
Ron Howard: That was the big question I was asking of myself, going into the movie. I knew there was a genuine hurdle there.
May 2021
Q&A with Quoc Bao Tran and Yuji Okumoto
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of The Paper Tigers. This film is a heartfelt look at the Kung Fu genre as well as a story about growing up and fatherhood in various forms. What was the catalyst for the story? Bao Tran: I survived a death […]
January 2022
Q&A with Paul Schrader and Tiffany Haddish
Can you talk about finding this character, before you brought him to the page?
Paul Schrader: These kinds of stories — I’ve done about a half-dozen of them, stretching all the way back to *Taxi Driver* — usually come about when there’s a metaphor.
August 2015
Q&A with Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig
How did you develop the wonderful physicality of Greta’s character Brooke? She emotes with her entire body.
Well first, Greta was born. And grew up into that person.
April 2023
Q&A with Melissa Barrera, Nicholas Britell, and Benjamin Millepied
Did you find it helpful to engage with the previous iterations of the story when you were preparing for this film?
Nicholas Britell: Well, what was interesting, actually, was that when Benjamin first told me that he had this inspiration to to do Carmen, my first instinct was that I actually didn’t want to adapt or rearrange Bizet at all.
October 2019
Q&A with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino
This film has a different editorial pace and perspective than you usually portray in your films. Would you be able to talk about your approach with these older men in the film?
Martin Scorsese: This is not a film we could have created or made as effectively if we had tried to make it ten years ago.
June 2016
Q&A with Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
What was your relationship with Anthony Weiner before starting to work on this film?
Josh Kriegman: I actually met Anthony while working for him in politics. I was his chief of staff for a couple of years while he was in Congress.