Period pieces are notoriously cumbersome and expensive to make. Did you find that to be the case?
Thaddeus O’Sullivan: The biggest challenge in this context was really the whole Lourdes issue.
Features: Q&A
June 14, 2023
It Ain't Over – Q&A with Sean Mullin
by The National Board of Review
When did you first start noticing a disconnect between Yogi Berra’s reputation and the player the stats showed him to be?
Sean Mullin: I think that’s what this was all about. When I started doing the research, I was like, wait, this guy was criminally overlooked.
May 26, 2023
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game – Q&A with Austin and Meredith Bragg
by The National Board of Review
I want to start out by talking about how you got the idea to do this. How do you collaborate to come up with this incredible work that we just saw?
Meredith Bragg: We’re not entirely sure where we first learned that pinball was illegal in many cities…
May 19, 2023
Monica – Q&A with Andrea Pallaoro, Trace Lysette, and Patricia Clarkson
by The National Board of Review
I’d love to hear how you developed the script.
Andrea Pallaoro: Well, it’s a film that I had envisioned as part of a much larger exploration on the traumas and the dynamics of what it means to feel abandoned and the consequences of that.
April 20, 2023
Carmen – Q&A with Melissa Barrera, Nicholas Britell, and Benjamin Millepied
by The National Board of Review
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.