INTERVIEW: Xavier Legrand, writer/director of Custody
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 9, 2018 · Leave a Comment
It’s always a treat to see a director whose work you’ve enjoyed in short form make the leap to features—especially when the latter debuts at a venue as auspicious as the Toronto International Film Festival. This is exactly what happened with Xavier Legrand last year. Less than half a decade after earning his first Oscar […]
INTERVIEW: Matt Tyrnauer, director of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 12, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016, Matt Tyrnauer‘s Citizen Jane: Battle for the City has received rave reviews across the country as it opened in limited release April 21st, 2017. Centering on Jane Jacobs—a journalist, author, and activist—the film showcases the problems inherent to how urban planners in the mid-twentieth century worked. […]
INTERVIEW: Aaron Moorhead, director/cinematographer & Justin Benson director/writer of The Endless
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 27, 2017 · Leave a Comment
As someone who loved Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson‘s Spring to the point of seeking out everything else they had done before that point, hearing about a new work debuting at Tribeca got me excited to see what they would deliver. My assumption was that it was the Aleister Crowley picture they spoke about when […]
INTERVIEW: Stephen Frears, director of The Program
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 13, 2016 · Leave a Comment
It’s proving to be a couple of busy months for legendary director Stephen Frears, fresh off his delightful true-life story Philomena making an Oscar run in 2013. Not only does he have his Lance Armstrong biopic The Program opening US theaters this Friday (March 18th), but his newest Florence Foster Jenkins also hits UK screens […]
INTERVIEW: Sebastian Schipper, director/cowriter of Victoria
Posted by Jared Mobarak on October 6, 2015 · Leave a Comment
The word on the street about Victoria is that it’s a must-see for one reason: its entire two-plus hour runtime was captured in a single, pulse-pounding continuous take. While that aspect is definitely paramount, don’t think the film has nothing else to offer. This thing gets your blood pumping as much from the authentic performances […]
INTERVIEW: Olivier Nakache, cowriter/codirector of Samba
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 16, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano‘s (shown above at middle and right with Omar Sy) Intouchables was France’s Oscar hopeful in 2012 and did make the January shortlist. An infectious crowd-pleaser based on a true story, it vaulted Sy into stardom with a César win over The Artist‘s Jean Dujardin and ultimately co-staring roles in Hollywood […]
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INTERVIEW: Debra Granik, director of Stray Dog
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 30, 2015 · Leave a Comment
If you don’t think someone fresh off an Oscar nomination would spend five years to follow her critically acclaimed fictional narrative with the first feature-length documentary of her career, you don’t know Debra Granik. When I interviewed her back in 2010 in support of Winter’s Bone, she was already talking about documentary observation as being […]
INTERVIEW: Jalmari Helander, writer/director of Big Game
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment
After finding success from his debut feature Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale—an expansion of a world he created through two previous shorts all released together by Oscilloscope—Finnish writer/director Jalmari Helander did what many European filmmakers do and went English-language for his sophomore effort. But he did so on his terms by once again writing his […]
INTERVIEW: Kris Swanberg, director/cowriter of Unexpected
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 23, 2015 · Leave a Comment
A hit at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival now getting a limited release from The Film Arcade, Unexpected proves a welcome breath of fresh air for stories dealing with pregnancy against the usual romantic comedy fare usurping the plot point for cheap laughs. Director/cowriter Kris Swanberg utilized her own experiences as a mom and from […]
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INTERVIEW: David Gordon Green, director of Manglehorn
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 19, 2015 · Leave a Comment
In the six years between Snow Angels and Prince Avalanche, writer/director David Gordon Green became a collaborator on a string of comedies of which he was not credited as a writer. In the two years since he’s utilized that process with drama Joe and now Manglehorn. He’s said in other interviews that it’s a way […]
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INTERVIEW: Alex Winter, director of Deep Web
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 4, 2015 · Leave a Comment
While you may know him as Bill S. Preston, ESQ, Alex Winter the actor has effortlessly become Alex Winter the director. Hot on the heels of his successful Napster documentary Downloaded comes Deep Web: a look behind the curtain at the 96% of the internet we don’t see. But while the film began as an […]
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