What are the origins of the script?
Gus Van Sant: I live in Portland, Oregon. I had moved there, I think, in 1982. I had made a couple of films, and John Callahan was a visible, local character.
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September 2013
Q&A with director Shane Salerno
Let’s start by talking about the unique backstory to making this film.
Salerno: I grew up in a house where Salinger was a church. My mom was a huge fan and turned me onto his work, but like everyone, I had no idea about the man, I just knew the work. I started researching this project and found out that J.D. Salinger landed on D-Day, that Salinger participated in these horrible battles, that he lost the love of his life, Oona O’Neill, to Charlie Chaplin.
September 2023
Q&A with David Petersen, Steven Melendez, and Mary Recine
How did the project begin?
David Petersen: So it began at a dog park, where all projects have to start!
February 2023
Q&A with Chris Smith
Is it correct that you had a very small crew, during production? Was that always the plan?
Chris Smith: When we first went out to Robert Downey Jr.’s house in the Hamptons, he said that we couldn’t bring a crew. Which I only found out two days beforehand.
August 2020
Q&A with Benjamin Ree and Barbora Kysilkova
Can you both discuss how this film came about?
Benjamin Ree: The film began with me researching art robberies.
May 2023
Q&A with Andrea Pallaoro, Trace Lysette, and Patricia Clarkson
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.
August 2020
Q&A with Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil and Jane Adams
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of She Dies Tomorrow. Can you talk about the origin of this project? Amy Seimetz: I was dealing with a lot of anxiety and I realized that to alleviate the anxiety I was talking to my friends – namely Kate Lyn […]
May 2024
Q&A with Jane Shoenbrun and Brigette Lundy-Paine
Speaking of actually having a greater scale and a greater budget, what was the coolest special effect that you got to deploy in this film?
JS: I mean, I loved making the monsters. From the very beginning, I remember thinking, for the next film? Let’s go monsters.
April 2024
Q&A with Ethan Hawke
Can you start by telling us about your exposure to Flannery O’Connor throughout your life?
Ethan Hawke: I was first given Flannery O’Connor by my mother, who was trying to prompt the inner feminist in me. Because all I was doing was reading guys.
July 2024
Q&A with Colman Domingo and Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin
Can you tell us how you first learned about the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program?
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin: One night, I was going into the yard, but it got closed down, so everybody got directed to the theater. And while I was in the theater, there was a play going on—One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, I believe, with my brother Dino Johnson. I got to witness these brothers doing some creative work that I didn’t expect, because I know them from the yard. I’ve seen them in the yard, I’ve seen them in the gym, I’ve seen them everywhere. But when I see them up on stage, the camaraderie that they had with each other was a beautiful thing to witness and I wanted to be a part of that
August 2024
Q&A with Austin Peters
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.
July 2022
Post Term
During a 1992 Long Island autumn, a Pakistani immigrant doctor in a post-term pregnancy is pushed to confront the expectations of her new life.
June 2017
Ocean Song – Directed by Erica Liu
Inspired by a true story, a whale who has been cast out by his own kind ventures out in search of a friend who shares his unique song.
July 2015
None of That – Directed by Anna Hinds Paddock, Isabela Littger, Kriti Kaur
A museum guard is on night patrol when he finds that someone has been censoring the museum’s nude artwork. He goes to find who has been defacing all the artwork, only to find that the culprit is a tiny mysterious nun.
November 2017
NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW ANNOUNCES 2017 AWARD WINNERS
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW NAMES THEIR 2017 HONOREES INCLUDING THE POST FOR BEST FILM OF THE YEAR & GRETA GERWIG FOR BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR The Organization’s Gala will be held on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 in New York City New York, NY (November 28, 2017) – The National Board of Review today […]