Jan 12, 2009 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

Waltz With Bashir won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category.
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Nov 01, 2008 By Chris Tinkham Year End 2008 - Best of 2008

Wood, who earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for her breakout performance in Thirteen, goes toe-to-toe with Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. More

Nov 01, 2008 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

Your scenes with Mickey Rourke in the film are quite intense. What was the mood like on set for that last emotional scene in the film?

We had a really laid back crew and they were all very respectful. It was pretty tense on set sometimes, and all my scenes were with Mickey, but we didn't really talk in between takes, and he wouldn't say anything until we were filming a scene, so I think we, especially Mickey, everybody just stayed completely focused and in character the whole time. It became a really emotional experience, but I think it kinda bonded Mickey and me in a father-daughter way because of it, 'cause we went through all that together, so we're pretty close now. More

Nov 01, 2008 By Chris Tinkham Year End 2008 - Best of 2008

"You know when you smell something, and it’s like a really vivid recollection?” asks director Danny Boyle. “You get a memory throwback. I wanted to try and create that intensity in film.” More

Nov 01, 2008 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

French director Arnaud Desplechin, whose first film was titled La Vie des morts (Life of the Dead), acknowledges that there appears to be a preoccupation with death in his work.  More

Nov 01, 2008 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

Ballast, a meditative and visually eloquent film about death and renewal, is an unlikely work from a Los Angeles filmmaker. Shot on 35mm film in the Mississippi Delta while using only available light, Ballast has been linked to the films of Belgium’s Dardenne brothers, not only because writer-director Lance Hammer employed handheld camera, jump cuts and nonprofessional actors, but also for the naturalistic way the film depicts the emotional and psychological effects of impoverished living. More

Jul 01, 2008 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

In the early 1990s, Guillaume Canet was part of a wave of young actors—Virginie Ledoyen, Grégoire Colin, Élodie Bouchez and others among them—that infused French cinema with new blood and freshened its face for U.S. art house patrons. More

Jul 01, 2008 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

Greta Gerwig is only two years out of Barnard College, but already she’s been touted as the queen of mumblecore, a catchword used to categorize the DIY aesthetic of Andrew Bujalski, the Duplass brothers, Joe Swanberg and other young directors who make small-scale, dialogue-driven features with nonprofessional actors. More

Jul 01, 2008 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

A week into last month’s Los Angeles Film Festival, Baghead gave filmgoers a laughably disorienting cinema experience when, during an early scene that’s set at a fictional underground film festival, a director fields sincere post-screening questions from the audience about his ridiculous indie film We Are Naked. More