Exclusive: Amy Ryan Talks Breathe In, Birdman
A Tony- and Oscar-nominated actress, Amy Ryan has played tough, tender, damagingly self-involved and everything in between. In real life, though, her persona runs closer to Holly Flax, the lovably…
Cheap Thrills Interview: Big Dares & Big Changes for Pat Healy
You know Pat Healy, right? Well, if you don’t, that means you probably haven’t seen “The Great World of Sound,” “The Innkeepers,” or “Compliance,” and that also means you have…
Exclusive: Josh Anthony, Anne Taylor Talk Happy Camp
The title “Happy Camp” conjures feelings of a comedy — either an ironically named satire, or perhaps some “Pitch Perfect”-type summer-getaway ensemble where “Glee” fans labor to upstage one another…
SXSW 2014 Interview: Oculus Director Mike Flanagan
When Mike Flanagan’s short film “Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man with the Plan” hit the festival circuit and conjured some buzz, there was immediate interest in turning it into…
SXSW 2014 Interview: Wild Canaries’ Sophia Takal & Alia Shawkat
Husband-and-wife duo Lawrence Michael Levine and Sophia Takal have been making movies together for quite a while by assessing the resources available to them at the time and then building…
SXSW 2014 Interview: Open Windows’ Nacho Vigalondo & Elijah Wood
Welcome to shaky cam 2.0. Writer-director Nacho Vigalondo doesn’t have a character running around “Open Windows” with a camera in his hand, but he does have one in the midst…
SXSW 2014 Interview: Frank Director Lenny Abrahamson
It’s tough enough directing an actor and capturing his or her performance in a traditional sense, but in “Frank,” director Lenny Abrahamson had the challenge of conveying the thoughts and…
SXSW 2014 Interview: Hellion Writer-Director Kat Candler
Whereas some filmmakers begin with short films, make their first feature and never turn back, Kat Candler has chosen to maintain a balance between the two formats and for good…
SXSW 2014 Interview: Stage Fright’s Jerome Sable & Eli Batalion
A horror musical? Really? Yes! And if you’re as skeptical as I was about the combination just before walking into my SXSW screening of “Stage Fright,” you better throw all…