Spotlight’s Editor Tom McArdle Helps Make Journalism Look Thrilling
...etc.), but it's also because of McArdle's ace editing. We spoke with the longtime McCarthy collaborator about working on one of the year's most devastating films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXymzwz0V2g Did you discuss an approach...
Talking to Carol’s Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy
...laptop, I can revise on a laptop, but I can’t write a draft on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZilTUuzIQ When you found out Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara were going to be the leads, was it...
Tuesday Teasers: Deadpool, Love, & The 5th Wave
...the planet’s remaining inhabitants for good. When Cassie’s brother is taken, she sets out on a mission to get him back and restore a little order in an otherwise apocalyptic free-for-all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P90y_5lZ2lg...
World Renown Composer Emilio Kauderer on Scoring Animation in Underdogs
...Whereas animation is wall to wall music and music is a character. It becomes a character. For me, animation can hold a more powerful emotional suggestion from the composer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvsdjmn1ae4 Would you say...
The Comic Anarchy of Sacha Baron Cohen and The Brothers Grimsby
...Borat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BfeANSBff8 Borat, or rather, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, was a wonderfully strange but nonetheless undeniable cultural juggernaut. A mockumentary centering around Borat Sagdiyev,...
Uncovering the Secrets of The Wizard of Oz Doc The Slippers
...gone largely undiscussed in popular culture. Fitting then that documentarian and filmmaker Morgan White has recently completed The Slippers, a thorough exploration of the golden age of Hollywood and a cogent investigation...
The Huntsman: Winter's War and the Tradition of Fairy Tale Film
...there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2-_OQL9fBk The Red Shoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFcOqyWBKYg Made only 11 years after Disney’s Snow White, this gorgeously wrought Powell & Pressburger take on Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale of the same name. Employing...
Jonathan Ames Talks Season 2 of Blunt Talk
...“That was an actual colonoscopy,” Ames told me. It's Painfully Hilarious, caps intended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrLR8Zolr3Y Season two really is ambitious, and not just rectally. This is a comedy, after all, with such a...
Prolific Documentarian Alex Gibney on Zero Days
...of your films, you use dramatizations and computer-generated visualizations. One of the major figures in Zero Days, for example, is a digitally conjured composite character. Do you dislike cinema verite, or does...
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Aliens
...Let Cameron, star Sigourney Weaver, producer Gale Anne Hurd, Bill Paxton and more talk about why Aliens has resonated for so long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvb3vvbMsww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiZBI2Mzkzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVNGp2W58LE Featured image: Sigourney Weaver in Aliens. Courtesy 20th Century Fox....