Interviews

Since his first film and television appearances in the late-eighties, actor Chris Cooper’s filmography has come to include blockbusters (The...

12 Years a Slave has begun awards season with a strong showing, leading the field in Independent Spirit Awards nominations...

When Gus Van Sant was preparing to make 1995’s To Die For, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were both vying...

After spending a decade acting in film and TV projects, writer/director Scott Cooper made his feature film debut in 2009...

My eleventh birthday was at the beginning of 1998. I remember a series of very formative years growing up, where...

Idris Elba is an actor equally prolific on screens big and small. Last year, he won a Golden Globe for...

As we’re now in the heart of the holiday season, the major movie studios are rolling out the latest crop...

There are moments in Bruce Dern’s performance in Nebraska that express the regret of a life lived according to the...

Since his widely-acclaimed portrayal as the title character in TV's James Dean in 2001, James Franco has appeared in almost...

Since the release of Toy Story in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has been one of America’s most consistent producers of...

David Lynch / Mark Cousins from Volodymyr Bilyk on Vimeo. Hope you agree it's worth enduring Mark Cousins and the...

Breakfast with Curtis premiered last summer at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and was by far the standout narrative film...

In December of 2011, I interviewed Joe Letteri for LivinginCinema and AwardsDaily. The four-time Oscar-winning visual effects artist took me...

I'm forever grateful to Megan Ellison. She helped finance some of my favorite films this year, including Zero Dark Thirty,...

Documentarian Alex Gibney is no stranger to taking on difficult subjects and courting controversy. In 2008, Gibney won the Academy...

Sound designer Ben Burtt began his career in 1975, and his innovations were quickly recognized by the Academy who gave...

In 1993, Steven Spielberg directed Schindler’s List, marking the first collaboration between Spielberg and Director of Photography Janusz Kaminski. Kaminski...

In 2010, British filmmaker Tom Hooper and his film The King’s Speech seemingly came out of nowhere, to gross over...

Of all the names in Tom Hooper's upcoming adaptation of the beloved stage musical Les Misérables, the one casual fans...

After a six-year absence from both arthouses and multiplexes, filmmaker David O. Russell (Flirting with Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart...