Can you discuss the archival material you have in this film? It’s incredibly comprehensive.
Daniel Geller: One of the things, I think, that came later in the process…Leonard began to understand what Dayna and I were trying to do with the movie.
Features: Q&A
June 4, 2022
Hold Your Fire – Q&A with Stefan Forbes
by The National Board of Review
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of Hold Your Fire. The film took place in my old neighborhood—I lived a block and a half from where those events took place, right on the J line. It’s a major intersection, a very busy hub. To me, this is […]
May 27, 2022
Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story – Q&A with Frank Marshall
by The National Board of Review
How did this film get underway, and how did you decide to co-direct it?
How did this film get underway, and how did you decide to co-direct it?
Frank Marshall: One of the things that happens — as you get older — is that your friends also become experienced, and rise in their careers.
May 20, 2022
The Phantom of the Open – Q&A with Craig Roberts and Simon Farnaby
by The National Board of Review
Simon, this is an incredible true story. How did you come to write the script?
Simon Farnaby: I was brought up around golf—my father was a greenskeeper at a little club in northeast England. Golf’s a game I love, but I came at it like Maurice [Flitcroft], from a lower-class angle.
May 13, 2022
Hatching – Q&A with Hanna Bergholm
by The National Board of Review
How did this project start, and how did you come to the story?
Hanna Bergholm: It started when the screenwriter Ilja Rautsi contacted me, and he told me he had this one sentence idea in his head: A boy hatches an evil doppelgänger out of an egg.