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Director Michel Gondry, Still Eternal with The We and the I
After the jaw-dropping critical successes of his feature films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, observers of director Michel Gondry’s work expected no less than stellar works from the French filmmaker. After Be Kind Rewind and a studio diversion with The Green Hornet, Gondry is back with... »
Director Kirby Dick Fights The Invisible War
Documentaries can celebrate the true stories of people's lives, follow mankind's momentous events, even take us to exotic locations that we may never visit in person, but perhaps the most valuable use of the documentary form is its ability to expose systemic wrongs in an effort to make things right. Oscar contender The Invisible... »
David O. Russell: Storytelling as a Magnificent Dance
Leave it to director David O. Russell to make a film with a playbook on how to get through the madness and absurdity of life and receive an Academy Award nomination for best motion picture of the year along with nominations for his directing, for his adapted screenplay, for the editing – Jay Cassidy... »
Sacha Gervasi Explores the Dark Complexities of Hitchcock
"Shocked!" is how director Sacha Gervasi felt the first time he saw Psycho as a 14-year-old kid at a film club. "I couldn't see it for another 20 years," exclaimed Gervasi. Years later, studying at UCLA in the 1990s, the budding screenwriter rediscovered Alfred Hitchcock. "I was a huge fan of his and then... »
Contender – Best Animated Film, Hotel Transylvania
Many of the most popular characters in monster movie history resurface in Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania, directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. Of his collaboration with SPA, whose combined crew with Sony Pictures Imageworks under the umbrella of Sony Pictures Digital Productions numbers 500, the director noted, “We are trying to stay true to... »
Contender – Best Foreign Film, Lore
An interesting cross-cultural phenomenon of this award season is Australia’s entry into the best foreign language film Oscar competition: The World War II-drama Lore. That’s “Lore” in German, as in “Laurie,” or a similar name, and not the English “lore,” as in a story. And while it’s not surprising that an English-speaking country would... »
Mark Andrews and Pixar’s Home of the Brave
Director Mark Andrews insists that Pixar’s Brave is not just another story of a Disney princess, even though the titular character, a mind-of-her-own Scottish lass named Merida, is the daughter of a Lord, or Thane, and therefore, a princess. “She’s a Pixar heroine,” Andrews says. “She shovels crap out of her horse’s stall.” »
Director Jacques Audiard Presents an Unconventional Love Story in Rust and Bone
Rust and Bone is the new movie by French auteur director Jacques Audiard, best known for A Prophet, a crackling prison drama that won a swarm of international awards and was nominated for the best foreign film Oscar in 2010. Rust and Bone is a hard-edged, unconventional love story about two damaged individuals... »
Traditional Lore Comes to Life in Peter Ramsey’s Rise of the Guardians
Based on the Guardians of Childhood book series by William Joyce, Rise of the Guardians, has legendary characters. Sandman, Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin) and Jack Frost (Chris Pine) – join forces to protect the children of the world – with their imaginations and beliefs in the... »
Director John Madden: The Making of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Life is pain. Life is loneliness. Life is disappointment. Life is like the faded relic of an once glorious building. But life is also the hope that something old can be rebuilt to an unexpected and even better glory. And this is the promise of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel directed by John Madden.... »