Mar 27, 2009 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is best known in the U.S. for his spine-tingling supernatural horror films Cure and Pulse, but the concerns addressed in his latest film, the family drama Tokyo Sonata, provoke chills of a different sort, as they reflect the ills of the current global economic crisis.
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Mar 27, 2009 By Chris Tinkham Steve McQueen

When a director has shot a 17-minute debate between a prisoner and a Catholic priest in an epic single take, as English artist Steve McQueen did for the centerpiece of his feature-length debut Hunger, it’s only fitting that he would want to challenge you during a conversation.
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Feb 17, 2009 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

It’s 5 p.m. and Italian director Matteo Garrone is nearing the end of a full day of interviews to promote his film Gomorrah, a bold, sobering work that weaves together five stories of characters—young and old—whose lives are influenced by the Camorra, the multi-faceted crime system that operates pervasively in Naples and the surrounding Compania region of southern Italy. More

Feb 17, 2009 By Chris Tinkham Morgan Dews

When Morgan Dews’ grandmother Allis died in 2001, the New York writer/filmmaker inherited a wealth of her personal photos and 201 of her 8mm home movies, shot primarily by her during the 1950s and ’60s. Although Dews initially had hoped to make a short film from the footage, the images eventually composed the visual content for Dews’ first feature-length film, the lyrical yet unsettling documentary Must Read After My Death. More

Jan 30, 2009 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

Director Laurent Cantet utilized three HD cameras to shoot the improvised teacher-student exchanges in The Class, France’s first Palme d’Or winner in 21 years. More

Jan 12, 2009 By Chris Tinkham Ari Folman

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 02, 2008 By Chris Tinkham Evan Rachel Wood

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 02, 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 Danny Boyle

“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