Interviews

Bryce Dallas Howard on Controversial Filmmaking Advice and Getting Busted By the Cops

In 2011, everyone who knew Bryce Dallas Howard the actress was introduced to Bryce Dallas Howard the director thanks to… Read More

Stealing From De Niro: Sam Rockwell on Watching Movies to Prepare for a Role

In 2013, we talked to Sam Rockwell while he was promoting 'The Way, Way Back.' Read More

Roger Deakins Makes Bond Cool Again With ‘Skyfall’

Skyfall returns to the Connery days of the James Bond franchise, where nearly every frame would drip with coolness. Martin… Read More

Why We Haven’t Gotten a James Bond Film from Steven Spielberg

Learn the story of how Spielberg asked to direct a 007 installment and why he was denied. Twice. Read More

Genndy Tartakovsky: ‘Hotel Transylvania’ Is the “Ultimate Issue of MAD Magazine”

Hotel Transylvania marks the feature debut of a renowned figure from the world of TV animation, Genndy Tartakovsky, whose work… Read More

‘Compliance’ Director Craig Zobel: “I Didn’t Believe That This Happened”

Compliance caused quite a stir at this year’s Sundance. Many labeled the film exploitative, finding its subject matter too much… Read More

William Friedkin Gets Romantic With ‘Killer Joe’

For such an unrelentingly graphic and blood-spattered NC-17 thriller, William Friedkin’s Killer Joe is more romantic than one would expect.… Read More

Andy Samberg: Give ‘Hot Rod’ a Criterion Release

We chat with Andy Samberg about That's My Boy and why Hot Rod deserves a Criterion release. Read More

Joe Carnahan Talks Mortality, Real Men, and ‘The Grey’

The first reaction of anyone coming out of The Grey probably won’t be, “I bet the director of The A-Team,… Read More

Interview: David Cronenberg on the Essence of Cinema and a Battle of Ideas

Ever since its debut at Venice, some have discredited A Dangerous Method as not being cinematic. The film is 99… Read More