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July 2018

Q&A with Gus Van Sant, Kim Gordon, and Jonah Hill

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.

October 2021

Q&A with Fran Kranz, Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, and Jason Isaacs

You did almost all of the work on this film— what was that experience like?
Jessica Kingdon: I did have a close cinematographer, Nathan Truesdell, and we shot it together. But, yeah, it was very much a film that was coming out of my own mind.

June 2020

Q&A With Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville

Fisher, I understand that this film had a pretty unique origin story?
Fisher Stevens: Leo [DiCaprio] called me and told me he was in Brooklyn, and that I should come meet him for lunch at the racetrack in Brooklyn. I told him there was no race track in Brooklyn!

March 2023

Q&A with Edward Berger

Your DP said that his collaboration with you is one of the most unique he’s had with a director.
Edward Berger: We’re both obsessed with precision and architecture in the film. It’s not haphazard and we don’t try to find the shot on set. It gives me true pleasure to set up a shot and in that shot, have every department create the illusion that this is reality.

September 2013

Q&A with Director Steve McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor

Your character experiences some of the darkest things a person can experience. During your preparation and filming, was there anything in particular that helped you connect with him?
Ejiofor: I think I wanted to find out about who he was. I thought there was something about him that was too remarkable.

July 2023

Q&A with Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas

When you’re talking with Cillian about that and how you’re going to essentially be inside of his head for a lot of the film, what do you discuss about him embodying this man?
Christopher Nolan: I think the first and most important conversation was the one where we both agreed that we were not interested in some kind of impersonation.

December 2021

Q&A with Asghar Farhadi

The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of A Hero. What was your writing process like, as this idea has been with you for a while? Asghar Farhadi: When I was developing the concept of this idea in my head as a student, I was never thinking about […]

April 2015

Q&A with Alex Garland and Oscar Isaac

How did you arrive at Nathan being this weightlifting, heavy drinking, bro-ish guy?
If the people you’re interacting with are physically intimidating and intellectually intimidating and also very rich, it doesn’t leave you much room to maneuver.

July 2015

Pitter Patter goes my Heart – Directed by Christoph Rainer

The hopelessly romantic Lisa takes desperate measures to win her former lover back. But the fact that he already has a new girl at his side and that Lisa needs to bring her alcoholic father to an anti-varicose-campaign photo shoot without letting him know, is not particularly helpful.

July 2014

Picnic – Directed by Fan He

Through a little boy’s magical journey in life, his expectation of a family picnic always fails to materialize. Until one day, he finally meets with his love in the city.

Old Moon – Directed by Raisa Bonnet

The rolling hills of a little village in Puerto Rico where Elsa lives are covered in tropical forest. Elsa observes with concern the relationship between her son-in-law and her granddaughter. Nonetheless, she continues to go about preparing food, hanging out the washing, feeding the chickens and tending the garden.